Comparison between Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" And Whitman's "Come Up From the Fields Father"

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Comparison between Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” And Whitman’s “Come Up From the Fields Father”


           
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were two of the best poets in America, during the nineteenth century.  They were both rebellious each in his own way.  The shared some features, especially their abandonment of the usual form of poetry and their use of free verse instead.

In comparing the poems “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” by Dickinson and “Come Up From the Fields Father” by Whitman, we can notice some similarities. Both poems have some kind of music though there is no rhyme scheme, due to the use of free verse.

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They both use repetition of some words.  Dickinson repeated the words “we passed”. While Whitman repeated several words such as “waking”, “longing”, “withdraw” and “better”.

They both used descriptive language. Dickinson described the “Dews” that “drew quivering and chill”, her “gown” which was made of “Gossamer”, her “Tippet” which was “only Tulle”. She also gave us a description of the house of death, which was “A swelling of the ground, The roof was scarcely visible, The Cornice in the ground”.

Yet Whitman used more descriptions in his poem. He described the fields of Ohio’s villages in autumn and their beauty. ...

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