Journal #42 Whitman vs. Dickinson

If i lived in the time of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and i had to choose which poet i enjoyed to read more, i would probably chose to read Whitman more than i would like to read Dickinson. This is true because of many reasons. First, i would much rather read the works of Walt Whitman than Emily Dickinson because i usually tend to enjoy the things that Walt Whitman writes about much more than Emily Dickinson and also Whitman tends to have a much more interesting point of view on his poetry than Emily Dickinson does. For example, within his poetry, especially the works on nature, Whitman tends to describe what thew setting, or what he is writing about means to him almost. Within his poetry, he creates something special for the reader by making very interesting comparisons that he finds in nature to real life. To me, this leaves a better impression on me, and it also creates a type of personalized tone that only he is able to establish. On the other hand, when I read Dickinson's poetry. It tends to be wrapped around her own small, isolated, world which is a place that i cannot comprehend to be. For example, even though when Dickinson writes, she tends to relate things to other things in the world, i cannot really comprehend what she is trying to say in a lot of poetry simply because when i read her writing, it seems like she is in a world of her own, which she nearly is. This i cannot really relate to in her poetry, and therefore, i really do not like the writing of Emily Dickinson. The other reason why i tend to like Whitman's writing more than the writing of Dickinson is because is because i tend to like the type of language that is used within the works of Whitman. When i read the poetry of Whitman, i tend to feel more in tune with him because of the clear words that he uses to describe his emotions and what he is writing about.