Walt Whitman and the Civil War
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A five page paper looking at the nineteenth-century poet’s involvement with and reactions toward the Civil War, as seen through his poetry and letters. Specific poems discussed are: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” “O Captain! My Captain!”, “An Army Corps on the March,” “Calvary Crossing a Ford,” “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night,” “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim,” and “A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown”. The bibliography cites five sources.
Filename: KBwhitm2.wps

The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living
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In 5 pages, the author takes Socrates’ statement in “Apology” that “the unexamined life is not worth living” and relates it to three other famous texts: Voltaire’s “Candide,” Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels,” concentrating on the voyage to Lilliput; and Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PClit7.doc

"Wallace Stevens' 'Americana' and the American Renaissance"
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A five page paper showing how this poem, written in 1950, reflects back on authors of the American Renaissance such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. The paper explores Stevens' belief that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans grew to justify materialism and conformity on the mistaken belief that it's the American way, when in fact the writers of the American Renaissance held quite a different philosophy. No additional sources.
Filename: KBamren.wps

The Appearance Of Birds
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The poems, The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe and Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking by Walt Whitman both feature the appearance of birds. This 3 page paper asserts that The predominant symbolic meaning used in both poems for the particular bird is a call to memory. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KTbirdcd.wps

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