confidence vs free mind
... atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten, I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. In Dickinson’s poetry, you can tell she excludes herself. In the line “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church -- I keep it, staying at Home –“ she does things her way, the poem tells us how some people act, then how she acts. She completely cuts herself off from society, and doesn’t care what other people think. She is over the fact. In almost the exact opposite, Walt Whitman is saying people do as I do “And what I assume you shall assume.” He wants people to think as he is thinking. To, “assume how he is assuming”. When I read these poems, I thought of a lot of stuff I could say that would compare and contrast the similarities and differences. But when trying to type this essay I think I found that these two poets are almost nothing alike. Walt Whitman’s poems are like cheery, upbeat and have a sort of good outlook towards them. Emily Dickinson gets her point across through what reminds me of a depressed person. People feel sorry for her, so they keep reading towards finding a solution in which she can be happy. Whitman’s poem above, people read because he has so much energy in it people want to know what he will think of next. Now I have to do the actually essay requ...