• Describes the differences and similarities in outlook and attitude between
Dickinson and Whitman
• Explains how each poet's use of specific poetic devices shows these differences
and similarities

How does visiting the place of the gods affect the narrator? a. he discovers that it is unwise to have an inquiring mind b. he learns that there is nothing supernatural to fear in the destroyed city c. he renounces everything he learned from the priests and his father d. he understands that the past has nothing of interest for people of the present