Walt Whitmen Emily Dickenson
After receiving five years of schooling, Walt Whitman spent four yearspar learning the printing trade; Emily Dickinson returned home after receivingpar schooling to be with her family and never really had a job. Walt Whitmanpar spent most of his time observing people and New York City. ... In this essay I will be comparing Emily Dickinson and Waltpar Whitman. Emily Dickinsons life differs greatly from the life of Waltpar Whitman, although they lived during the same time period. Walt Whitmanpar published practically all his poetry during his lifetime, but Emilypar Dickinson only published seven of her poems during her lifetime. ... Emily Dickinson did not write for an audience, but Waltpar Whitman wrote for an audience about several national events. ... Emily Dickinson grew up in Amherst, Mass,par and Walt Whitman grew up in New York City, New York; this is one way thatpar these poets lives differ. The main people that influenced Emilypar Dickinson were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Bronte. Walt Whitman waspar influenced by many people, some of which were: Elias Hicks, Jamespar Macpherson and William Shakespeare. ... Emily Dickinson started writing poetry in 1850, butpar most of her poems are dated after 1858. ... During the year 1862, the manpar Emily Dickinson loved left for San Francisco. ... The last years of Walt Whitmans life werepar spent revising and writing poetry. Emily Dickinson stayed very close topar her family, but Walt Whitman traveled and lived alone toward the end ofpar his life. ... Walt Whitman was apar 20th-century innovator of poetry because he used nonmetrical prosody. ... In nearly all of Emily Dickinsons poetry there is the use ofpar quatrains of three iambic feet, that is four lines of poetry to a stanza,par where each line has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressedpar syllable, three times. ... Walt Whitmans and Emily Dickinsons lives were verypar different, although they lived during the same time period.