Picture of American Civil War in the poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”? Introduction: Several pictures of the American Civil War are depicted…
In the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman, the poet brings out his loneliness at the end. The poem is an elegy dedicated…
Key Information: Theme: Victory and Lose; Grief and Isolation; The Individual vs The Nation. Literary Device: Extended Metaphor, Alliteration, Personification, Irony, Juxtaposition. Summary O Captain!…
Key Information: Theme: Death as a Natural Part of Life; Public and Private Grief. Literary Device: Imagery, Allusion, Rhetorical Question, Personification, Repetition, Metaphor. Summary The…
Introduction: “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is not only a poem but actually a democratic universe. Here in this poem, Whitman represents the…
Introduction: Walt Whitman is the shining star in 19th-century American Literature. He breaks down the existing English and French writing traditions and innovates new writing…
Introduction: The note of joy and optimism that Walt Whitman (1819-1892) puts in his remarkable poems is very much related to his idea of the…
Walt Whitman (1819-92) glorifies the sex-starved young lady of 28 years in his iconic epic poem “Song of Myself”. Actually, the lady expresses her intense…
Spiritual Democracy Spiritual Democracy is akin to a kind of science of God that includes all faiths and all good knowledge. Whitman’s concept of spiritual…
Symbol: A symbol is a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. The symbolic significance of Grass …