Walt Witman Comparison

Whitman The two poems “To A Locomotive in Winter” and “I like to see it lap the miles” are similar in their topics but expressed in two totally different ways. “To A Locomotive in Winter” is a poem of Whitman’s That describes a train in the time of the winter still moving around the nation carrying its passengers. This poem shows the nations people the how we stay united even through the hard winters. …showed first 75 words of 330 total…

…showed last 75 words of 330 total…its ribs” and how the train “crawls between them”. When Dickinson does this she feels that the reader will get a better feeling when it is a human characteristic as opposed to the type of symbolism used by Whitman. As you can see from these two poems you don’t need to write in the same style to get the same message across to the reader. Whitman and Dickinson are a perfect example of this.