Walt Whitman vs Emily Dickinson

Walt Whitman vs Emily Dickinson

As we know that both of them are romantic time period writers, we can see that they both have different styles of showing that. In Walt Whitman we can see that he talks about everyone else but he relates back to himself a lot in the poem Song of Myself. One of the examples where it shows where he is talking about himself would be “I loaf and invite my soul./ I lean and loafe at my ease overview a spear of summer grass” (Whitman 982). Which we can see that indeed that he does relate back to himself throughout his poem which would be in the Romantic time because of the individuality. One other example out of his poem would be where he repeats “For Me” (Whitman 983). Now as for Emily we can see that she uses a insiders perspective other than expressing herself. We can see that she does the individuality speaking and relates back to someone. We can see that here in this line “I died for Beauty—but was scarce” (Dickinson 1053). One other time would be “'For Beauty. I replied.'” (1053). Both of the Poets can write with different styles as of Whitman is more of a freelance writer while Dickinson is more of an personal writer. We can see that both of them write in the Romantic time period. Even thought both writers have the style of writing that they choose we can honeslty say that both can belong in the Romantic time period of writing.