Walt whitman's Leaves of Grass represents the peak of American romantic literature and is a masterpiece in the treasure house of world literature. Leaves of Grass reflects the development of the United States from an agricultural economy to an industrial power before and after the Civil War, and praises the rise of a new nation with a new optimistic voice. Whitman doesn't create for religion and the current system, and doesn't care about the trivial elegance of tea and painting in the upper class. The objects of his praise are drivers, miners, farmers and other manual workers at the lower level of society. He is full of confidence in the future of the United States. He is a true national poet. In style, Whitman completely abandoned the old rules and regulations and expressed his free thoughts in the form of free body. In terms of freehand brushwork, he was influenced by the photographic technology just invented at that time. In addition to the pursuit of taking pictures, there is also a poem that captures the moment when you step on the brakes and shows movement in a static state. More groundbreaking, he broke the religious taboo of 1000 years, eulogized "Comradeship" loudly for the first time, and optimistically predicted that a new era of homosexual love would come, which would promote social progress. More than a century later, the ideals and enterprising spirit expressed in Whitman's poems are still the source of power for homosexuals in the United States and other countries to pursue freedom and liberation. However, Whitman's self-liberation has experienced a tortuous mental journey.
Emily Dickinson, on the other hand, was immersed in loneliness and wrote poems. Her poems are novel in form, mostly adopting the traditional metrical form of Isaac Watts, the author of English religious hymns in the17th century. However, she has made many changes, such as using many short dashes in her poems, which can not only replace punctuation, but also make the normal iambic foot rhythm suddenly fluctuate. Most of her poems rhyme.
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