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A 9 page paper which examines poetry from Walt
Whitman and Robert Frost. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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9 pages (~225 words per page)
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a theme of darkness, which are very human concerns which poets attempt to understand and translate. As we all understand, the subject of mortality and death and darkness is a
very diverse subject that can be examined from many perspectives. This becomes very obvious when looking at the poems of Whitman and Frost for neither seems to have a
finite opinion of death or darkness as they simply appear to investigate it as a very powerful reality that we must all face at one time or another. Bearing these
simplistic perspectives in mind we present the following paper which discusses the two poets separately as they present the reader with images of death. Walt Whitman Walt Whitman
is considered one of the greatest poets, though he was not recognized as such until after his death. "What he wrote about was also revolutionary. Whitmans poems celebrated the human
body and the common man. He also praised the wonders of nature as well as the works of mankind" (Walt Whitman Was Born May 31, 1819). "Simple and personal. He
leases part of himself in all his works" (Walt Whitman: A Look at the Writing of). Yet, many have criticized him: "Whitman was not unaware that the absence of rhyme
and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse that was to greet his new verse form.
Genteel critics from 1855 on have denounced what a Brahmin like Barrett Wendell called the "decadent eccentricity" of his style. They accused Whitman of artistic laziness and exhibitionism, looseness and
vulgarity. They attributed his esthetic pioneering to ignorance and ineptitude" (Sillen). In this examination we look at two of Walt Whitmans many poems. The first poem discussed is "Song of
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