Images of fog are featured in Thoreau's poetry to present the bridge between Nature and heaven. ... Described in terms of the countryside, the "low-anchored cloud- has several connotations. ... In Thoreau's poetry fog serves as a metaphor of a semi-obscured realm where man and nature may unite. ... "For Thoreau the world was not a pasteboard mask hiding the golden Over-Soul [but] the basis of all philosophy, and poetry, and religion even."" ...

• Word Count: 1654
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Between 1848 and 1855 he developed the style of poetry that won praise from Ralph Waldo Emerson and earned readers in England. ... Whitman's influence on later American poetry has been profound, both by the examples of his open forms and by his bold encompassing of subject matter that had formerly been considered unpoetic. Many of his four hundred poems contain musical terms, names of instruments, and names of composers. ...

• Word Count: 1529
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School