Compare and Contrast Emily Dickinson’s and Walt Whitman poems?

Question

i need to write a 5 paragraph essay on comparing and contrasting the two, any help would be wonderful

actually, i need to compare one work of each of them,

Answer 1

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) and Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) are two major American poets of the nineteenth century.

However, the two poets are strikingly different because Whitman, on the one hand, was a politically involved citizen who wrote poems that embrace the United States in an attempt to strengthen the Union whereas, on the other, Dickinson was a non-voting woman who wrote poems that secede from society and declare her own self-sufficiency.
Still one could claim that Whitman and Dickinson are comparable because, while living in their different ways “solitary” lives, both wrote poems that express ardently heterosexual longings and others that anticipated homoerotic discourse.
Other, often interrelated issues will arise—such as the editorial problems each poet presents, their formal differences, the influence of Emerson on both poets, their reworkings of Christian thinking, their speculations on death and immortality, their responses to despair, their relationships with their readers, their environmental thinking, and their attitudes about race and class.

Compare:
Dickinson's “Poem 986 (A narrowFellow in the Grass)”
to Whitman's THE SLAVE'S CURSE
Infact, this manuscript could set you on to a good comparison:
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/whitman/sleepers/manuscript.html


Some suggested:
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass and Other Writings, A Norton Critical Edition, 2002.
Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Reading Edition, 1999 (Edited by R. W. Franklin).
Jerome Loving, Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself, 1999.
Alfred Harbegger, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson, 2001.
David S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography, 1995.
Judith Farr, The Passion of Emily Dickinson, 1992.
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Consider this:
One can fully appreciate Dickinson's originality only by placing her verse against that of her poet
contemporaries. She is certainly more mystical—
and is a better poet—than Ralph Waldo Emerson
or Henry David Thoreau. Her poetic works have
greater substance than those of Edgar Allan Poe.
She writes poems far richer in content than the
school poets: James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf
Whittier, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The
only American poet of her century with whom she
is comparable is Walt Whitman.In the nineteenth century, women generallywrote only domestic verse-material suitable for ladies' magazines—or wrote under male pseudo-
nyms. Higginson’s advice that Dickinson avoid pub-
lication makes most modern readers of Dickinson
angry, as do the alterations made by Dickinson's
early editors. One can be grateful that Dickinson's
creative energy remained undiminished.


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Answer 2

Walt Whitman And Emily Dickinson