Both walt whitman and emily dickinson were influenced by the romantics. choose one of the two poets. provide at least three ways that he or she reflects romantic thinking in his or her writing. then give an example from one of the works that you studied in this unit that illustrates that characteristic.

Both Walt Whitman (1819-1892) and Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) are very well known by their unique writing styles which have influenced the course of poetry writing in the whole Americas. Both of them use topics related to the subject/personal, Nature, and freedom of imagination as main themes in their poems, and all of these are Romantic inheritances.

Explanation:

Emily Dickinson, for instance, develops her poems in a very melancholy way, in which the subject is conflicted with Nature and rather stay closed to animals and flowers than near to human contact and thoughts. That is why Nature is one of the major topics in her poetry, as something present in almost all her works. Besides that, freedom of imagination is noticed by the radicalism of language use and ideas, for example, the use of "dash" in most of her poems, and/or the missing of words which can only be imagined by the reader. For instance, the poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" expresses all these characteristics in its lines, such as in its last stanza: "How deary - to be - Somebody! / How public - like a Frog - / To tell one's name - the livelong June - / To an admiring Bog!"

"the sandy walls seemed to collapse in on themselves"

and

"the bloodshot waters seemed to have no bottom"

the mending wall was written by robert frost