Comparison: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

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The paper compares the two poets and notes the major differences in their styles, focusing on length of poems, tension within the poems, meter and syntax. The paper also examines the similarities the two poets shared, most notable of which was that both invented their own form of verse and the fact that they were both not too popular with publishers because of the content of their poetry.

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"The styles of both Whitman and Dickinson are completely different, the style of the poet can also define how much tension a poem contains. Dickinson's own idiosyncratic style simply lends itself to tensions. Her lines are almost always short and she uses syntax in a very specific way which helps to build up the tensions in her work, which does often prove as Gelpi points out to be the coherence of it. Whereas Whitman's style is free verse and his lines are often as long as her wants them to be, they don't have the same tensions as Dickinson's simply down to the way they were written."

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