Write an essay that compares and contrasts a whitman poem with a dickinson poem. you’ll decide how the poets attitudes or perspectives are alike and different, based on how they use poetic devices such as rhyme and figurative language.

Too Much has been written about similarities and contrasts between Whitman and Dickinson. The parallels between their lives do not stop coinciding, starting with the most decisive one: temporality.

Both lived in America in the same historical period, however, they sailed on two confronted shores in most of the vital aspects.  Republic her, democrat him; She an eternal little girl, he, an ancient, timeless voice. One with feet in the earth, another with soul in the clouds.

In particular, I choose to read two texts to give shape to the present essay. From Dickinson I chose the poem 324 as a key piece of the author to extol its gentle mischief that dares to contravene the strong customs of her world in strong sentences that try to explain her particular way of living, jumping between the madness and common sense.

This poem is full of capricious scripts and capitals, like the rest of his work, establishing a unique cadence in the genre: randomness that does not detract from the piece's quality but, on the contrary, fills it with meaning.

The metric of the poem alludes to the church hymns, it is in the style and content that is perceived as a challenge to the social conventions.

The rhyme is not strict in this poem, but for that reason, poetry lacks in other devices: it is sustained in the repetitions, the alliterations and the breaking of stanzas that make the poem flow from beginning to end.

From Whitman, I am moved by "I hear America singing," an explosion of naturalness and vitality. The poem is also a hymn to life and a first-person expression of the senses that the writer carries to the surface.

There is so much coincidence with Dickinson, but then the great difference that I establish lies in the strong verses, the metric freedom, the explosion of long and misaligned verses that sing eternal truths.

The early influence of Emerson was dropped on the pen of both authors who counted on him not only as a friend and counselor but as a Master. In the development of her themes, Dickinson is influenced by her secret loves, characters that guided her feelings intensely, although the story tells that in most cases the relationships that infuse her were platonic and ethereal.

For Whitman, however, it is his intense experience of humanity that urges him to sing. It is his pain in the flesh of the human beings who walk with him through the world and who then settle into his verses.

It is not only philosophy and romantic thoughts the material of these two writers, there is a political and social opinion of the times and facts that surround them, there is a break with whom they do not commune, a strong personality that does not change over time, rather It becomes stronger and concrete in their poetry.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)