This essay compares Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson in their style of writing as well as their lives and the subjects of their poems.

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson wrote in the same time period but their writing was very different from each other. Though they are both transcendentalists, or at least their writing seems to be, they have very different styles of writing. They are both pioneers in the field of poetry for their own reasons. Walt Whitman was a people person, meaning he associated with many different types of people where as Emily Dickinson was a recluse …

…poems are different, because generally Whitman's poems are political and Dickinson's are usually religious. The atmosphere in which they lived probably contributed to their writing because Whitman wrote about his traveling and Dickinson wrote about death and seclusion which she understood more than most. The forms each poet used are different as well. The rhyme in the poetry by Whitman is drastically different from the poetry written by Dickinson, because Whitman didn't use any rhyme.