Thursday, April 16, 2009

For Tuesday, April 21: Founders of American Poetry

Dickson (the isolated?) and Whitman (free/democratic?): 

Read: all of their poems in our book – Index in back of book besides my kind listing below:

ED: p. 469, 471, 490, 517, 533, 568, 577, 578, 579

WW: p. 444, 625, 626, also on-line:

“O Captain! My Captain!

“The Sleepers”


“For You O Democracy


Also: Consider the idea of "precision" (or control) in their language. How would you describe the complexity of precision (control) in the works of these two authors, based on the samples we're provided?



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