What is another word for distracting your self from the bigger problem?

to draw the attention of your self to something else.

to make the mind troubled.

puzzeled, perplexed, confound and bewilder

sis. it's been a while since a read that and had that class so i can't answer for u

the difference of the poems of walt whitman and emily dickinson is that whitman uses personification, whereas dickinson avoids figurative language. whitman incorporates transcendentalism and realism in his works. on the other hand, dickinson's poems talks about death and immortality.