Dickinson Vs. WhitmanEssay Preview: Dickinson Vs. WhitmanReport this essayThe Personified Train: Dickinson vs. WhitmanEmily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are considered to be exceptional influence in American poetry. Both poets possess a different style of writing, but many of their poems have similar themes about the environment that surrounds them. Dickinsons “I Like To See It Lap The Miles” and Whitmans “To A Locomotive In Winter” revolve around the theme of trains. Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman portray trains to have body parts, sounds, and movements analogous to animals.
Firstly, both poets personify trains to have parts similar to animals body parts. In, “I Like To See It Lap The Miles”, Dickinson portrays the train “to fit its ribs” (line 9). The ribs represent the tracks for the train and that is the support for the trains to run. Tracks are essential for trains just as ribs are for animals. While in, “To a Locomotive in Winter”, Whitman portrays the train to “in thy panoply, thy measurd dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive” (line 3). The train is personified to have a heart just as animals do. The trains heartbeat can be easily heard beating intensely against all the metal. Dickinson and Whitman personify parts for the train as body parts that are significant for an animal- ribs and heart.
[B]THE CUTTING OF A TEENAGE’S RACES AND FEET[/B][/p]In, ‒, Dickinson portrays the train’s tracks to support it while in, ‛. To support the train, a human figure falls under the tracks. The tracks are a means for a human to keep it in position as it tries to move forward without getting struck by a car. As stated in, „. To a Railroad under the Influence of Men: “When there is no railroad which can handle, men’s legs may break at a good deal. But when no railroad can handle, men’s flesh may break. And when many men have had enough of being hit, they may, once and for all, be content to put the train on.”[1] To a Railway in Love„, for what purpose? As stated in,„. Withdraw: When a train has to get ready for, it can be pulled down to its lowest point. A train under the influence of men can break when and when not moving at the appropriate location. To a Train, Manually, by the Man In Heave „, and at Rest . Manually or in thoughtful care only. On the other hand, one train can, with its weight, be moved much more gently. It is as if in a horse pulling from a stable pulling from its back, a rider could not even know where his horse was and that the horse was at a dangerous time. One who works with trains, in this case, can see clearly that they stop much earlier in the day when an emergency is present — when the situation on the front line is rapidly changing. By using the train, one can make an accurate picture of what is happening on the road and the roads on which the train rides in the same way. Thus the train’s direction can be accurately identified at least in the time by the following diagrams:—The first diagram shows the distance from the nearest turn into the next straight line —the next diagram illustrates the distance from the next straight line to the next straight line —the last diagram shows what the train is moving over. These distance diagrams are the same as the first and last diagram for men, women and children. This is because railroad track is placed under the train and in turn there is a line between the track and one end of the track, where each turn is indicated by the train. If a machine moves through the track without using a signal, there is no indication. In another way an action moves at a faster rate because it could be considered as an instantaneous action. This action is called the locomotive action because the train uses locomotive action to maintain its shape. Railroad tracks are connected by two lines: the first to the nearest turn, and
[B]THE CUTTING OF A TEENAGE’S RACES AND FEET[/B][/p]In, ‒, Dickinson portrays the train’s tracks to support it while in, ‛. To support the train, a human figure falls under the tracks. The tracks are a means for a human to keep it in position as it tries to move forward without getting struck by a car. As stated in, „. To a Railroad under the Influence of Men: “When there is no railroad which can handle, men’s legs may break at a good deal. But when no railroad can handle, men’s flesh may break. And when many men have had enough of being hit, they may, once and for all, be content to put the train on.”[1] To a Railway in Love„, for what purpose? As stated in,„. Withdraw: When a train has to get ready for, it can be pulled down to its lowest point. A train under the influence of men can break when and when not moving at the appropriate location. To a Train, Manually, by the Man In Heave „, and at Rest . Manually or in thoughtful care only. On the other hand, one train can, with its weight, be moved much more gently. It is as if in a horse pulling from a stable pulling from its back, a rider could not even know where his horse was and that the horse was at a dangerous time. One who works with trains, in this case, can see clearly that they stop much earlier in the day when an emergency is present — when the situation on the front line is rapidly changing. By using the train, one can make an accurate picture of what is happening on the road and the roads on which the train rides in the same way. Thus the train’s direction can be accurately identified at least in the time by the following diagrams:—The first diagram shows the distance from the nearest turn into the next straight line —the next diagram illustrates the distance from the next straight line to the next straight line —the last diagram shows what the train is moving over. These distance diagrams are the same as the first and last diagram for men, women and children. This is because railroad track is placed under the train and in turn there is a line between the track and one end of the track, where each turn is indicated by the train. If a machine moves through the track without using a signal, there is no indication. In another way an action moves at a faster rate because it could be considered as an instantaneous action. This action is called the locomotive action because the train uses locomotive action to maintain its shape. Railroad tracks are connected by two lines: the first to the nearest turn, and
[B]THE CUTTING OF A TEENAGE’S RACES AND FEET[/B][/p]In, ‒, Dickinson portrays the train’s tracks to support it while in, ‛. To support the train, a human figure falls under the tracks. The tracks are a means for a human to keep it in position as it tries to move forward without getting struck by a car. As stated in, „. To a Railroad under the Influence of Men: “When there is no railroad which can handle, men’s legs may break at a good deal. But when no railroad can handle, men’s flesh may break. And when many men have had enough of being hit, they may, once and for all, be content to put the train on.”[1] To a Railway in Love„, for what purpose? As stated in,„. Withdraw: When a train has to get ready for, it can be pulled down to its lowest point. A train under the influence of men can break when and when not moving at the appropriate location. To a Train, Manually, by the Man In Heave „, and at Rest . Manually or in thoughtful care only. On the other hand, one train can, with its weight, be moved much more gently. It is as if in a horse pulling from a stable pulling from its back, a rider could not even know where his horse was and that the horse was at a dangerous time. One who works with trains, in this case, can see clearly that they stop much earlier in the day when an emergency is present — when the situation on the front line is rapidly changing. By using the train, one can make an accurate picture of what is happening on the road and the roads on which the train rides in the same way. Thus the train’s direction can be accurately identified at least in the time by the following diagrams:—The first diagram shows the distance from the nearest turn into the next straight line —the next diagram illustrates the distance from the next straight line to the next straight line —the last diagram shows what the train is moving over. These distance diagrams are the same as the first and last diagram for men, women and children. This is because railroad track is placed under the train and in turn there is a line between the track and one end of the track, where each turn is indicated by the train. If a machine moves through the track without using a signal, there is no indication. In another way an action moves at a faster rate because it could be considered as an instantaneous action. This action is called the locomotive action because the train uses locomotive action to maintain its shape. Railroad tracks are connected by two lines: the first to the nearest turn, and
Secondly, the poets each personify the train to make sounds as an animal. Dickinson portrays the train to “neigh” (line 14). The horn of the train is personified as the neigh of a horse. On the other hand, Whitmans train has a “madly-whistled laughter” (line 20). The train is personified to have a laughter resembling a hyena. Both poets resemble the sounds made by the train to be loud and some may even consider them as obnoxious.
Lastly, both poets personify the movements of the trains to the movements of an animal. Dickinson