The Raven And Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard The Learn'

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Walt Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” are poems written with countless differences but also with many similarities. The differences and similarities of the poems are what made the poems the individual pieces of art that they are. Of course, coming from two authors who are known for their completely different writing styles, this comes as no surprise. Some differences in the poems include the length, the meaning, and the rhyme of the poems. Poe’s poem is 108 lines long while Whitman’s poem is only 10 lines long. Even though “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” is much shorter than “The Raven”, it does not take the power and impact away from the poem. Poe uses the length of the poem to build