Emily Dickenson and Walt Whitman
I chose to write about Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. These two were obviously two very important and talent poets who focused on very different themes. Emily Dickinson focused greatly on self-awareness as opposed to Walt Whitman who focused on nature. The first on I am going to talk about is Walt Whitman. The first poem I chose to write about is from "By the Roadside" and the poem is called when I Heard the Learned Astronomer. I chose this poem not only because it caught my eye, but because I think it really showed how much he truly loved and valued nature. In the poem I think he is talking about sitting through an astronomy class listening to the astronomer lecture. He is saying to most people learning the mathematical part of astronomy may be interesting, but when he listens to it, it makes him sick. When I first read this I wondered why the astronomer made him sick since I know he does love nature so much and stars are a part of nature. Then I realized he loves nature as is, and that is does not need to be analyzed and figured out. It made him sick hearing the lecture. Only when he got back outside into nature and looked into the beautiful stars hearing their silence did he fe
The first line of this poem says it all. The first poem I chose was number 754 on page 1207. In this poem she is not only trying to show that the world is full of fake people and untruthfulness, but that she herself is not one of these people. The way she talks about it makes it seem like she is not afraid at all, but in actuality, I think this is her biggest fear. Whitman talks about how he traveled to a place and got lost in love with a woman and forgot everything he had came there for. The world seems to need to know everything about everything. At the end of the poem he talks about the pain that she is going through when he is about to leave. The next poem that I chose is called, Once I Passed Through A Populous City. Whitman can get lost in nature and forget all else just as he did with love in this poem. All he needed to know about nature was that it was beautiful and game him a sense of peace. He meets her in a city he was passing through in which he was there to go to shows, and see the architecture and tradition of that city. Sometimes we just need to sit back and enjoy some of the mysteries of the world. The theme of this poem is very different. Although he is not talking about nature in this poem, he talks about love in the same way he talks about nature. It is like he keeps running away from that love time after time, never being ale to fully commit.
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