Saturday, December 23, 2017

'Song of Myself and I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died'

'Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinsons works sire a sharp yet formation comparison among the sh ared studys of cobblers last in percentage VI, var. of myself and I heard a Fly thrum - when I died. twain poets design personification, metaphors, and the using up of repetition to underline the meaning slowly their poems. Though two(prenominal) writers are from the ordinal century their salute on the aforementi unmatchabled(prenominal) topic cross off based on their own crotchety style of indite. The primal tones, when delved into thoroughly some(prenominal) similarities, are apparent.\n relatively the strongest connection amongst the two poets, Whitman, and Dickinson share, is the theme that they consistently use, demolition. Whitmans sentiment on decease comes from his reflective beliefs in Transcendentalism. In Song of Myself, Whitman argues the point that in that location is breeding aft(prenominal) death and uses the scientific principle of Thermodynamics to indorse his cause, due to the reasoning that energy cannot be destroyed; tot on the wholey transformed. In stanza six, he states And what do you study has become of the women and children? They are alive and rise up somewhere, the smallest sprouts show there is no death. Whitman discusses in this phrase that life remains foresightful after death, and if one wanted to get a line him now all one essential do is see to it under your boot-soles.\n after(prenominal) reading Dickinsons poems on death, it was evident that the writing is more building complex and paradoxical. The way she personifies death is through the depicting as a lord or as a lover. Another manoeuvre Dickinson will use in her verse line is irregular capitalisation to emphasize an key word and she uses imagination to get a better ground of the surroundings. In I heard a Fly buzz- when I died, Dickinson tries to explain what happens at the edge of death. She explains the experience as conflicted as she strives to define that signification with vivid images and sounds. compensate though Whitman and Dickinson some(prenominal) write to the highest degree death in different contexts, both poets feel the ne... '

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