Both Emily Dickinson and Walter Whitman used their poetry as a way to express transcendentalist ideas. Whitman wrote mostly about self-knowledge and spirituality while Dickinson wrote about the self knowledge and nature aspects of the transcendentalist beliefs. In Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed,� Dickinson reminisces on how nature had put her into a drunken state just because of the sheer beauty of it, however in “I’m Nobody,� she reaches the self realization aspect of transcendentalism when she fully understands that the well-known and public people are damned and aren’t going to be as well off as she is. The only time Dickinson makes reference to spirituality is when she’s bashing it, “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - - I keep it staying at Home . . . (with) an Orchard, for a dome� Dickinson doesn’t care about Church, to her an orchard is grander and more magnificent than any Cathedral or Church she could attend.
Walter Whitman, however, couldn’t care less about nature, he wrote constantly about death and in stanza six of “Song of Myself� claims, “What is grass . . . Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord.� This completely takes away the meaning of Nature in his poems, he has claimed the nature is only created because the Lord has made it, it’s not something to be one with as shown through stanza two of “Song of Myself� and he doesn’t write about it once, in “Song of Myself�. He does however; write about self knowledge just like Dickinson. In the 50th part of “Song of Myself� he writes a whole stanza about coming to the realization that he has something that’s apart of him, the eternal happiness, that feels so great and makes him so happy. While believing in the same transcendentalist idea of self knowledge, Dickinson wrote more about nature, such as “I taste liquor never brewed� while Whitman wrote mostly about the transcendentalist idea of spirituality. These two authors don’t come off as complete Transcendentalists in the limited amount of poetry we have. Dickinson leaves out the spiritual part of Transcendentalist while Whitman avoids the nature part. If it was possible to combine the works of both poets, they would create a full Transcendentalist that encompasses all three ideas of the transcendentalist movement.
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Both Emily Dickinson and Walter Whitman used their poetry as a way to express transcendentalist ideas. Whitman wrote mostly about self-knowledge and spirituality while Dickinson wrote about the self knowledge and nature aspects of the transcendentalist beliefs. In Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed,� Dickinson reminisces on how nature had put her into a drunken state just because of the sheer beauty of it, however in “I’m Nobody,� she reaches the self realization aspect of transcendentalism when she fully understands that the well-known and public people are damned and aren’t going to be as well off as she is. The only time Dickinson makes reference to spirituality is when she’s bashing it, “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - - I keep it staying at Home . . . (with) an Orchard, for a dome� Dickinson doesn’t care about Church, to her an orchard is grander and more magnificent than any Cathedral or Church she could attend.
Walter Whitman, however, couldn’t care less about nature, he wrote constantly about death and in stanza six of “Song of Myself� claims, “What is grass . . . Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord.� This completely takes away the meaning of Nature in his poems, he has claimed the nature is only created because the Lord has made it, it’s not something to be one with as shown through stanza two of “Song of Myself� and he doesn’t write about it once, in “Song of Myself�. He does however; write about self knowledge just like Dickinson. In the 50th part of “Song of Myself� he writes a whole stanza about coming to the realization that he has something that’s apart of him, the eternal happiness, that feels so great and makes him so happy. While believing in the same transcendentalist idea of self knowledge, Dickinson wrote more about nature, such as “I taste liquor never brewed� while Whitman wrote mostly about the transcendentalist idea of spirituality. These two authors don’t come off as complete Transcendentalists in the limited amount of poetry we have. Dickinson leaves out the spiritual part of Transcendentalist while Whitman avoids the nature part. If it was possible to combine the works of both poets, they would create a full Transcendentalist that encompasses all three ideas of the transcendentalist movement.
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