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A paper which looks at the similarities between the themes and ideas expressed in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, with reference to their concepts of nature, God and sexuality. Bibliography lists 4 sources
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and Dickinson as opposite sides of a coin, since there are immediately apparent differences in their themes and the stylistic structure of their poetry. However, as Keller (2004) points out,
if one looks only a little way below the superficial level of their work, it becomes clear that in fact, there are a number of ways in which the two
demonstrate a similarity of outlook and philosophy, especially with reference to the connection between art and artist, and the artists own connection to the natural world.
Both of them, as Keller points out, worked against the "distinction between the work and
the person who produced it" (Keller, 2004, PG) and both saw writing as the medium through which the uniqueness of the individual was exposed and expressed. For both writers, poetry
was something which validated itself through its origins in a lived experience, and its ability to fragment and challenge the accepted, collective voice. The celebration of self, of ones own
consciousness, is at the heart of the poetry of both. Keller
therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whitman gives off an aura of prophetic certainty: Dickinson conceals sexuality
whereas Whitman celebrates it, but Keller dismisses these as distinctions which can be ignored. What is important is not that they are two sides of the same coin, but that
the coin is indeed, the same coin rather than two separate ones.
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