Dickinson's Time

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were in the time of great writers in American history. they both have two very different types of writing styles and things that they wrote about in their poetry. Walt Whitman wrote his poetry about God and everything that God was to him. I do like to read a little about God, but not everything. Whitman was able to put God into every poem in his Leaves of Grass poetry book. He did have a little bit about information Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, but most everything was about God. During class we analyzed the poems of Whitman and they were not my favorite. They were pretty poems to read, but the meanings were always the same and they got old. During the time, I would think his poems would be more legitimate because he was not a crazy man locked up in his room writing poetry. Emily Dickinson lost something in her life, so she went into an attic and decided to write about all of her life experiences. I would of thought she was a crazy broad and would not have read her poetry during the time she was alive. Now, I would prefer to read her poetry above Whitman's. Emily Dickinson used many aspects in life to write her poetry. She had more a poetic ring to her poems. Whitman had no rhyme to his poems and it felt like he was not a real poet, he was a very short story author. I also like the imagery in Dickinson's poems. They were easy to read because she described the items in her poems with enthusiasm and beauty. Emily Dickinson was a great poet. She had many different sections in her poems. She had a section on love and life and death. She did not talk about God a lot and it is nice to read about real life feelings and not just God. That's all