英美文学 Whitman Dickinson.pptVIP

Whitman and Dickinson Both Whitman (1819-1892) and Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) were American poets in theme and technique. Thematically, both extolled, in their different ways, an emergent America, its expansion, its individualism, and its Americanness, their poetry being part of what F. O. Matthiessen terms “American Renaissance.” In technical terms, both added to the literary independence of the new nation by breaking free of the convention of the iambic pentameter and exhibiting a freedom in form unknown before: they were pioneers in American poetry pointing to Ezra Pound and the imagists