Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman discuss similar topics of souls, nature, and the everyday life. Yet, each has a very distinctive voice and structure to their poetry. Comparatively, Whitman is much more descriptive and connective, while Dickinson expresses a literal and metaphorical meaning in very short lines and words. Check out the poems below to compare each poet's literary style.
Check out Emily Dickinson’s spider poems after the jump!
R. W. Franklin 1998 Edition
1373
The Spider as an Artist
Has never been employed --
Though his surpassing Merit
Is freely certified
By every Broom and Bridget
Throughout a Christian Land --
Neglected Son of Genius
I take thee by the Hand --
606
The spider holds a Silver Ball
In unperceived Hands--
And dancing softly to Himself
His Yarn of Pearl--unwinds--
He plies from Nought to Nought--
In unsubstantial Trade--
Supplants our Tapestries with His--
In half the period--
An Hour to rear supreme
His Continents of Light--
Then dangle from the Housewife's Broom--
His Boundaries--forgot—
1163
A Spider sewed at Night
Without a Light
Opon an arc of White –
If Ruff it was of Dame
Or Shroud of Gnome
Himself himself inform –
Of Immortality
His strategy
Was Physiognomy –
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