Question

Please answer question thoroughly. Consider Whitman and/or Dickinson as "modern" poets. What makes them so? or you could argue to the contrary and position their work as traditionalist.

Text: Dickinson, poems nos. 409, 620, 1096, 1263, 1668, 1773

Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” and “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Answer 1

Among many American poets, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson created a specific space and awarded as the modern poets. They used new writing styles, expressed unique American ideas. Their writings are the symbol of true America the nd they used a pragmatic approach in their poems.

Whitman and Dickinson broke the traditional style of writings and used realism and scientific approach, they used modern words, compositions and ordinary American language in their poems. Their view of the country was more sophisticated and detailed. Whitman poetry has no rhyme while Dickinson poems used slant rhymes but they avoid to use the traditional way of writing. For example, Songs of Myself, where Whitman lists all the people that he is such a learner with the simplest and a teacher of the thought fullest.

Whitman used no structure in his poems while Dickinson used ballad stanzas, they both used a modern approach with different concepts.