1. Write a comparative analysis (1000-1200 words) of the following poems or extracts by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, making particular reference to how their poetic techniques influence your conceptual and emotional understanding of the poem:
(a)
From Walt Whitman, As I Ebbd with the Ocean of Life
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As I ebbd with the ocean of life,
As I wended the shores I know,
As I walkd where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,
Where they rustle up hoarse and sibilant,
Where the fierce old mother endlessly cries for her castaways,
I musing late in the autumn day, gazing off southward,
Held by this electric self out of the pride of which I utter poems,
Was seizd by the spirit that trails in the lines underfoot,
The rim, the sediment that stands for all the water and all the land of the globe.
Fascinated, my eyes reverting from the south, dropt, to follow those slender windrows,
Chaff, straw, splinters of wood, weeds, and the sea-gluten,
Scum, scales from shining rocks, leaves of salt-lettuce, left by the tide,
Miles walking, the sound of breaking waves the other side of me,
Paumanok there and then as I thought the old thought of likenesses,
These you presented to me you fish-shaped island,
As I wended the shores I know,
As I walkd with that electric self seeking types.
(b)
Emily Dickinson, I Started Early Took My Dog
I started Early Took my Dog
And visited the Sea
The Mermaids in the Basement
Came out to look at me
And Frigates in the Upper Floor
Extended Hempen Hands
Presuming Me to be a Mouse
Aground opon the Sands
But no Man moved Me till the Tide
Went past my simple Shoe
And past my Apron and my Belt
And past my Boddice too
And made as He would eat me up
As wholly as a Dew
Opon a Dandelion’s Sleeve
And then I started too
And He He followed close behind
I felt His Silver Heel
Opon my Ancle Then My Shoes
Would overflow with Pearl
Until We met the Solid Town
No One He seemed to know
And bowing with a Mighty look
At me The Sea withdrew
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