Dickinson and Whitman Research Paper Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are probably two of the most influential people in American poetry. They are regarded as the founders of modern American poetry. Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are strikingly different but similar in some aspects. Their similarity is that they were both lonely. Their differences being their communication, how they wrote, forms, punctuation, and their themes. Walt Whitman was more of a realist, as Emily Dickinson …showed first 75 words of 1526 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1526 total…and why readers have known about them or heard their poems being spoken in a movie or on television. <Tab/>Whitman is very much the realist, painting a clear picture in the reader's minds of what he wants his readers to see, directing them where to go. Dickinson is more of an impressionist, projecting carefully chosen words to her canvas that reads like a puzzle that must be put together first.