Leaves of Grass

Literature is the foundation of life. The meaning of literature is any written work. It focuses in many topics that took from human tragedies and transfer it to tales if love. Also literature refers to the life experiences from the saddest stories to the most joyful ones that will touch their hearts. There are many purposes to literature, which are: a material to explore what is to be human. Also, it is a way for communication with others around large…...

Every poem is an answer to the question: what is poetry for? Write about how any one poet has confronted this question in his or her work. Every poem is the poets attempt to answer the question: what is poetry for, and no less the work of Walt Whitman, perhaps one of Americans greatest poets. In Song of Myself, he wrote Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, and his one…...

“Song of Myself “, by Walt Whitman’s Background Song of Myself is a poem by Walt Whitman’s. This poem presents a continual stream of human consciousness, where he attempts to analyze death as natural and transformative process, which ought to occur to everybody. Walt Whitman was an American poet born in 1819 and died on 26th March 1892. The poet was born in Town of Huntington, Long Island, New York, U.S.In his previous years, Whitman worked as government employee ,and…...

A compare and contrast analysis of the lives of the writers Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman After receiving five years of schooling, Walt Whitman spent four years learning the printing trade; Emily Dickinson returned home after receiving schooling to be with her family and never really had a job. Walt Whitman spent most of his time observing people and New York City. Dickinson rarely left her house and she didn't associate with many people other than her family. In this…...

At the turn of the century, fired by ideas of personal and political liberty and of the energy and sublimity of the natural world, artists and intellectuals sought to break the bonds of 18th-century convention. Although the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau and William Godwin had fantastic impact, the French Transformation and its after-effects had the greatest effect of all. In England preliminary assistance for the Revolution was mostly utopian and idealist, and when the French stopped working to measure…...

Ralph Waldo Emerson is undoubtedly one of the fathers of American literature. He was also a founder of Transcendentalism, which was a large philosophical movement that began in 1836. Ralph was a poet, a writer and one of the most famous philosophers of the nineteenth century. His influence, shown through his work includes a book, various poems, and papers as well as his actions that include his lectures. His work showed his beliefs of self-reliance and that nature is the…...