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1、WhitmanandDickinson---RomanticPoetryWhitmanandDickinsonWhitmanandDickinsonSimilarities:BothofthemweredistinctivelyAmericanpoetsinthemeandtechnique.BothofthemwerepartofAmericanRenaissance.A.Themes:bothpraisedintheirdifferentways,anemergentAmerica,itsexpansion,itsindividualism,anditsAmericann
2、ess.B.Techniques:breakingfreeofthepoetictraditionandpioneeringAmericanmodernistpoetrywiththeirpoeticinnovation.Differences:A.WhitmankepthiseyeonsocietyatlargewhileDickinsonexploredtheinnerlifeoftheselfandindividual.B.WhereasWhitmanisnationalinhisoutlook,Dickinsonisregional.C.Informalterms,W
3、hitmanischaracterizedbyhisendless,all-inclusivecatalogswhileDickinsonbyherconcise,direct,andsimpledictionandsyntax.WhitmanandDickinsonI.WaltWhitman(1819-1892)1.LiteraryStatusFatherofAmericanPoetryPrecursorofModernAmericanPoetryFatherofAmericanFreeVerseCelebratingAmericaasaPoem2.LifeWorking-
4、classbackgroundHegrewupinNewYorkandworkedthere.Fiveyearsofschooling,loafingandreadingRichlifeexperience:officeboy,printer’sapprentice,carpenter,schoolmaster,printer,editor(of8successivepapers),andjournalistWhitmanandDickinson3.ThePublicationofLeavesofGrass–Whitman’slifetimeliteraryendeavorA
5、.Thefirsteditionof12poemsin1855Astir–brokewiththepoeticconvention–sexualityandexoticandvulgarlanguageharshcriticismsonit:“noxiousweeds”,“poetryofbarbarism”,“amassofstupidfilth”B.Nineeditionsinall(1855,56,60,67,71,76,81,89,91-92)BegantobecelebratedwiththefiftheditionC.Hisdeathbededitionconta
6、iningallofhis400-oddpoemsWhitmanandDickinson4.Hisideas:“acatalogandgreatacceptor”Enlightenment,humanitarianismIdealismandTranscendentalismEmersonandWhitman:Emerson’sletterofpraiseofthefirstedition“themostextraordinarypieceofwitandwisdomthatanAmericanhasyetcontributed”Whitman:“dearMaster,”“I
7、wassimmering,simmering,simmering,Emersonbroughtmetoaboil”HesharedmanysimilarideaswithEmerson:Americaitselfwasapoem;thegreatestpoetisaseer,completeinhimself.(P.90)WhitmanandDickinson5.Whitman’sPoeticExperimentationHewasadaringexperimentalistwho“brokethene
