The protruding new American poets Whitman and Dickinson are two of the greatest writers of the 1800s. Whitman and Dickinson are very well-known nowadays through their excellent poetry. Whitman and Dickinson are both well-known for their love of individuality. Dickinson is known for her somber writings filled with ample amounts of metaphors, paradoxes, and synesthesia. Whitman affiliated with his vibrant and vehement writings containing free verse and cataloging. Dickinson and Whitman, exemplary writers of the new generation, were vastly different in many ways as in their tone and style. Nevertheless Dickinson and Whitman have some semblance in instances as in themes. For the two poets, Whitman and Dickinson share similarities in the themes of their poetry. The theme of individual being discovered through nature the is commonly seen between the two writers. Whitman divulges his uniqueness in his writings of "Song of Myself 52," proclaiming his individuality by saying, "The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me... I too am not abit tamed, I too am untranslatable," (Whitman 1-3). Whitman with the …show more content…
In the poem “I hear America singing,” Whitman uses cataloging to name all the different workers, when he “hears america singing, the varied carols I hear,” (Whitman 1). Whitman uses cataloging in “I hear America singing,” to get his point across and have it seen clearly. On the other hand, Dickinson writes with a metaphoric type of writing style filled with paradoxes and synesthesia. In the poem, “the soul selects its own society” Dickinson writes, “unmoved-- an emperor be kneeling, upon her mat,” very metaphoric the emperor is seen as society and other views on life (Dickinson 7-8). Dickinson unmoved because the soul already selected its society and shut off the valves to another idea and views. Moreover, Whitman and Dickinson are very different in their writing, yet they have some similarities as