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LA Whitman Dickinson
LA final of 1st Semester, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Walt Whitman's Topics | Slavery, democracy, reading, writing, work, American landscapes, sea, nature, Civil War, education, aging, death, immortality, poverty, love, spirituality, social change. |
| Famous Whitman Poems | I sing the Body Electric, The Sleepers, Song of Myself, I Hear America Singing. |
| Walt Whitman's invention | AMERICAN FREE VERSE: long, sprawling lines. CATALOGS: used to indicate types of people, situations or objects in a particular poem. ANAPHORA: literary device employing the repetition of a first word in each phrase (mimics the Bible) |
| Emily Dickinson's secret | 1800 poems never left her small hometown until she died. |
| Emily Dickinson's losses | 2 lovers/men she was really close with; Ben Newton and Reverend Charles Wadsworth. (Dressed in white after they died/left and never left her dad's house). |
| Dickinson's inspiration | The Testaments, hymns, love, death, immortality, and nature. |
| Dickinson's style | Compressed and simple, not conventional rhyme and rhythm. |
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