Whitman and Dickinson

Hello! I saw some people posting their Emily Dickinson imitation poems and I wanted to follow suit. This poem does not have a title: Peony – Thorns – at Feet caught bare An Osprey sings – abhorred Carbonating – of

I’m going to be honest. I came into the class loving Dickinson, and I left with a greater appreciation for her. Whitman just cannot compare (sorry, not sorry). Throughout the last couple of weeks reading her material, I have noticed

For the last of the responses for Emily Dickinson, I ended up doing the poem imitation option. For someone who is highly critical of their own work, I actually really enjoyed what I had done and wanted to sort of

Hey Guys! So, not gonna lie,  I was pretty excited to learn about Dickinson when I initially heard about this class, especially since I didn’t know anything about her going into it. When we started learning about her by reading

I can’t get over Dickinson’s use of the Master in her letters or the little names that she refers to herself as in those letters. Erkilla refers to the use of “Master” as Dickinson’s love crisis, but has no clear

For anyone else who is interested in learning about the book Called Back by Hugh Conway (I didn’t know what it was), I found these comments on Goodreads to be really helpful! I was really surprised to learn that it

In class, we discussed the ethics behind Walt Whitman’s use of nature and whether or not it was productive (if it was used for his writing or rather as an authentic source of being). Many of Whitman’s works actually follow