LA final of 1st Semester, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
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| Walt Whitman's Topics | Slavery, democracy, reading, writing, work, American landscapes, sea, nature, Civil War, education, aging, death, immortality, poverty, love, spirituality, social change.
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| Famous Whitman Poems | I sing the Body Electric, The Sleepers, Song of Myself, I Hear America Singing.
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| 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)
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| Emily Dickinson's secret | 1800 poems never left her small hometown until she died.
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| 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).
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| Dickinson's inspiration | The Testaments, hymns, love, death, immortality, and nature.
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| Dickinson's style | Compressed and simple, not conventional rhyme and rhythm.
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