Walt Whitman(1819-1892), broke the literary tradition of his time with regards to content, form and style of his vigorous verse. ... Writing about sex, (the) human body, many other "taboo" subjects and common objects and people, Whitman and Dickinson address the larger matters of life, namely death and religion. ... In fact, the poem 334 is actually the body of a letter that Dickinson sent, enclosing a rose, to her cousin Eudocia Flint(www.emilydickinsonpoems.org). 2. ... Walt Whitman 1. ... In fact, the title highlights his love for individuals: each leaf of grass possesses its o...

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Walt Whitman was a Transcendentalist, and Rainer Rilke wrote at the beginning of the Modernist period, yet both have very similar ideas about a poet's dedication to "things." ... Seeing as how Rilke had such a troubled life, as well as the fact that he was a rather dour German, probably not, but it still makes one think Whitman believed that the self was an amalgam of all people - alive or dead, good or bad - in the world. ... His life source was what we were missing about the world, but could never achieve. ... Instead of offering a way to connect with this fountain, or this fig tre...

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