This line expresses Walt Whitman's philosophy on life and is an almost perfect description of the poet. ... Walt Whitman gives much insight into himself and others in his poetry, and gives his readers a great deal to think about. ... One would never find Walt Whitman writing about Greek gods, or using the words "ye", "ev"n", or any other antiquated word. ... This poem shows very much Whitman's belief that it is important for one to stand up for what one believes in and to make it clear about one's feelings. 5. ... His last releases went under a great deal of revisal and were by ...

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A comparison made between Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman and The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Coleridge effectively demonstrates the validity of this assertion. Romantic Poetry in the 19th Century Romanticism in the 19th century came about as a result of circumstances peculiar to the era, such as changes in philosophy, religious dogma, and a rapid growth of industrialization in both England and America. ... The fact that This Lime-Tree Bower was also written in a free-flowing conversational style also identifies it as a romantically oriented poem. ... Also, the fact that Whit...

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It is quite obvious that he believes he is the only person worth bragging about. ... The narrator knows that Bartleby's constant defiance and never wanting to check over his work shouldn't be the way he answers his boss and the fact that he constantly ignores him seems to annoy him greatly. ... Another story in which it becomes evident there is someone with power with an attempt to control another is evident in the work of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." ... In Walt Whitman's case, we now know that Whitman was a homosexual male and his works are evident that he include...

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America does not care about visionary literature or art that contradicts the image it sells to the hungry masses, but Ginsberg provides a salvation, a light in the darkest of places. ... This is his response to America: that all can be saved, and he does this by challenging America's own beliefs about the soul. ... Ginsberg sees this as a fault of America's forefathers, asking Walt Whitman what it was like 100 years ago, if America had already lost its soul. ... A materialistic paradise, sold by the media, where in fact, an entire nation becomes flawed by a designer disease. ...

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During this time he was able to me some of America's greatest writers including Henry Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Walt Whitman. After his tour in America Wilde returned home and did another lecture tour in England and Ireland that lasted till about 1884. ... The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also. ...

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There is tension between the novel's rhetorical and narrative facts. ... One of his goals is to educate those readers about the prejudice against people like the Joads. ... Steinbeck's social thought is based upon three strands of 19th century American philosophy: the Emersonian concept of the Oversoul, the humanism and embracing of mass democracy idealized by Walt Whitman, and the pragmatism of Henry James. ... In fact, Jim Casy is portrayed as a Christ figure in the entire novel. ... In fact Casy seems to have a mystical presence despite his death. ...

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