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The Writing of Walt Whitman - Coggle Diagram
The Writing of Walt Whitman
Free Verse
Definition:
is a literary device that does not rhyme with fixed forms (Literary Device, 2021)
from Song of Myself - Walt Whitman
Examples
I hear America Singing - Walt Whitman
On the Beach at Night Alone - Walt Whitman
America - Walt Whitman
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer - Walt Whitman
Monther to Son - Langston Hughes
from Blossoms - Li-Young Lee
Anaphora
Definition:
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. (Oxford Languages, 2021)
Examples
If they are not
yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
If they are not
the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
If they are not
just as close as they are distant they are nothing. (from Song of Myself)
Catalogue
Definition:
a collection of people, objects, ideas, and other elements in list form within poetry or prose (Poem Analysis, 2021)
Examples
My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air. Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death.
Parallel Structure
Definition:
coordinate ideas are arranged in phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that balance one element with another of equal importance and similar wording (Britannica, 2021).
Examples
"I loaf and invite my soul,
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."
from Song of Myself
Diction
Definition:
choice of words, especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.
Examples
Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and
remembrancer
designedly dropped, Bearing the owner’s name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose? (from Song of Myself)