Walt Whitman's Contribution to American Poetry
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A five page look at this seminal nineteenth-century poet. The paper analyzes the reason Whitman is considered the first modern American poet, and what characteristics make him so quintessentially American. Bibliography lists six sources.
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Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”
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This 6 page report discusses “Song of Myself” and “Benito Cereno” in the context of the vision each of the authors had regarding race and power, freedom and self-knowledge. Whitman constantly asserts what he believes to be a pattern of life, death, and rebirth in the universe. Melville’s “Benito Cereno” raises issues related to America’s 19th century attitudes about race, status and competency that allow the reader to question many of the assumptions typically held about the premise of equality and independence that are supposedly central characteristics of American thought and belief. No bibliography.
Filename: BWsong.rtf

Trancendentalism In Whitman’s Leaves Of Grass
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The task of transcendental philosophy is for thought to attend to its own movement, a movement which, in accordance with its essence as a conceiving and thus an experience of order, loses itself in the object, comes to rest in something other than itself. This 7 page paper explores the transcendental nature of Walt Whitman’s preface to Leaves of Grass and the poem, Song Of Myself. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Transcendentalist Roots In Whitman & Dickinson
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A 5 page paper comparing and contrasting the ways in which Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson exhibited the influence of Emerson and Thoreau's Transcendentalism. The ideas expressed are supported by quotes from the literary works mentioned and several critical sources. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Whitman, Hardy, & Moss / Personification Of Objects
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A 5 page analysis of three poems that personify objects or objectify humans. The writer examines Walt Whitman's 'To A Locomotive In Winter,' Thomas Hardy's 'The Work Box,' & Howard Moss' 'Pruned Tree.' No additional sources cited.
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