Compare and contrast Whitman and Dickinson’s Poetry

Compare and contrast Whitman and Dickinson’s Poetry


Walt Whitman and Emily are two of the best US writers in the last 2 centuries. All of their poetry has been well received and they had inspired many generations in the USA. In the following paragraph I am going compare these two great writers of the last two centuries.

“Pictures" implies Whitman feels that all people have their own world inside of their brains, unique and incapable of being imitated. The brain to Whitman holds an expanding inventory of pictures, made up of both things remembered and things imagined. Whitman uses a barrage of realistic and descriptive imagery to give the reader a feeling for what is going on in the inside of his head. As the poem progresses, subjects change as fast as the reader can picture them.

Unlike Whitman, Dickinson does not open up the brain for the reader to tour; she keeps it closed, not only by her description but also th...