Emily Dickenson

I liked reading emily dickenson ever since high school. I still feel the same way I did about her then that I feel now. When she writes she writes for herself, meaning that this is her expressing her thoughts and not caring what others think because she's not writing for other people to rate her. If people relate to her poems then thats up to them because thats really what I think she tries to do; she writes with the intentions that there's plenty of people who've had their days or moments when they felt like dying, felt lonely, felt like locking themselves away from society, so with that being said she's a very deep poet that has a great use of words to go along with her imagination.

"Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman

From reading the title you would think this poem is about him. Him referring to Walt Whitman’s life, up’s and downs, good and bad. But while reading this poem you see how it refers to everybody in the world; dead, alive, or just an ordinary person. He expresses his feelings deeply for the one’s he lost in the Civil war. He uses grass to symbolize all these good and bad situations. Grass can either be something that’s apart of mother nature which is good, or the grass that feeds on the bodies of the dead. As you read further Whitman seems kind of stumped. He states: “I wish I could translate the hints.” I guess saying that you can come across a lot of things but your inability to express what it means is hard and also natural. When Whitman talks about speech being the twin of his vision, I understand what that means. He’s saying that just like what he see’s he can feel which doesn’t allow room to comment. “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I then become the wounded person.” He steps into the wounded man’s shoes because he uses his vision to see how that person is in pain which leaves no room for questions because he already sees it. He tends to say everything by saying nothing which makes you think there is another person, another side to him maybe. He has different ways of expressing himself, allowing you to believe that their’s multiple sides or personalities.