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 feel peace. All he needed to know about nature was that it was beautiful and game him a sense of peace. He was saying in this poem that we don't need to understand everything, in this case nature, we just have to enjoy it like it is. I can really relate to this poem to a certain level. The world seems to need to know everything about everything. Sometimes we just need to sit back and enjoy some of the mysteries of the world.
             The next poem that I chose is called, Once I Passed Through A Populous City. I chose this on essentially because I came across a different theme besides nature. The overall theme of this poem is love, not love of nature, which I did not see a lot of in the rest of h
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