Which comparison-contrast statement is most effective?A.While a majority of Emily Dickinson's works were published after her death, Whitman's most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was published during his lifetime.B.Though they lived during the same time period, Dickinson wrote compact poems about ordinary events, while Whitman wrote longer poems about public life and well-known events.C.Though Dickinson wrote mostly from her home in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Whitman wrote from his home in New Jersey, both wrote during the 1800s.D.Both were important 19th-century poets, but Dickinson was famous for her reclusive lifestyle, while Whitman enjoyed being a part of public life and conversing with many people.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Emily Dickinson18.   19th century American poet Emily Dickinson had a unique style.         Her style defied convention and was considered extremely radical for her time.         In poetry circles, she is known for all of the following characteristics of style EXCEPT:Group of answer choicesthe use of dashes and dotscapitalizing words in various parts of a line for Emphasis.the use of vivid imagery.her ability to describe abstract concepts like faith, love, or hope with concrete images.some sexually provocative and pornographic poetry that was considered radical and shocking because it was written by a woman.she experimented with non-traditional vocabulary.

Emily DickinsonCarole JenkinsThe grammatical errors in this passage are intentional.(1) Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest American poets. (2) She was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a very prominent family. (3) Her childhood was normal, filled with friends, activities, and having fun. (4) As she grew older, she began to isolate herself and even to refuse to leave her home. (5) In her latter years, she wore only white and would not let anyone but her family see her. (6) She spent most of her time alone writing poetry. (7) During her lifetime, she published only seven of her poems, and she published those anonymously. (8) After her death in 1886, her sister discovered packets of her poems in her drawer. (9) Four years later, her first books of poems were published.(10) Her poetry is wonderful to read. (11) Concrete imagery was used by her to illustrate abstract concepts, such as love and death. (12) Her unusual use of capitalization and punctuation and her use of irregular meter and rhyme make her poetry unique.QuestionWhat does prominent mean in sentence 2?ResponsesA financially unstablefinancially unstableB scandolous and infamousscandolous and infamousC reclusive and secretivereclusive and secretiveD well known and important

The Life of Emily DickinsonSasha Peterson1American poet Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her family was well known throughout the small community. Along with her parents, her older brother William, and her younger sister Lavinia, Emily lived in a large house called The Homestead. Emily attended classes at the Amherst Academy as a child. She studied English, classical literature, Latin, history, and math. The young girl also took a class in botany, the study of plants.2Emily studied at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for a short time as a teenager. For reasons that remain unclear, the young woman returned home shortly after classes began. Some scholars suspect that Emily was ill, while others believe that she was just homesick. She continued her education at home by reading the works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Shakespeare. Emily preferred reading to almost any other activity. She even named her dog after a character in one of Charlotte Brontë’s novels.3When Emily was eighteen, family friend Benjamin Franklin Newton recognized her budding talent as a poet. He encouraged her to continue writing, and he introduced her to the works of William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson. These authors became two of Emily’s most important influences.4Emily’s botany studies helped her become a skilled gardener. The Homestead’s gardens were known throughout the community for their beauty. Many of Emily’s poems speak of her love of nature and gardens. Her poetry also reflects her religious upbringing. Her work often examined the nature of life and imagined what might happen after death.5Of the almost 1,800 poems that Emily wrote, less than a dozen were published during her lifetime. Her published poems were changed quite a bit to fit the poetic rules of the age. Emily’s work puzzled magazine editors. Her poems were usually short, with no title. Emily often capitalized words in the middle of a line and she put periods in unusual places. Her use of slant rhyme was also an issue. In a slant rhyme, the vowel or consonant sounds don’t always match. The editors of the time were more familiar with perfect rhymes, in which the sounds matched up. All of this made it difficult for people to accept Emily’s work.6As Emily got older, she became less sociable. Though she continued to correspond with her friends through letters, she rarely left her family’s home. Many of her neighbors found this behavior to be very strange. The one thing that didn’t change was Emily’s love of words. She continued to write poetry until her death on May 15, 1886. Before passing away, Emily asked her sister to burn her poems and letters. Lavinia could not allow her sister’s work to be destroyed, so she worked with family friends to put Emily’s poems into a collection. Emily’s first volume of poetry was published in 1890, four years after her death. Though Emily never knew success in her lifetime, she is now admired as one of the best American poets in history.QuestionWhich organizational pattern does the author use in this passage?ResponsesA compare and contrastcompare and contrastB chronological orderchronological orderC cause and effectcause and effectD logical order

In the 1850s, Walt Whitman was not seen as a major American poet—yet. He had published two editions of his collection Leaves of Grass, which was a tribute to New York City despite its rural-sounding title. But he made his living as a newspaperman. Like many young men who grew up poor, he had finished elementary school and then been apprenticed to a printer. Given this training, journalism was a logical career choice. And given his writing skill, he had moved quickly from setting type to editing and reporting. New York City was the nation’s newspaper capital, publishing more than 150 papers, large and small. Some, like the New-York Tribune, the New-York Herald, and the New-York Times, were powerful dailies that were read all over the country. Whitman concentrated on smaller journals, and he wrote for more than a dozen of them. He covered many topics, but he especially loved anything related to street life in the city, which he celebrated with exuberant, rapid-fire prose. He wanted all of his writing, including his poems, to sound like the world he was describing.Whitman also tackled the political question that was threatening to rip the nation apart. His views on slavery were moderate. He saw it as evil, and in the 1840s he founded a free-soil newspaper, the Brooklyn Freeman, to argue against the spread of slavery to the territories. But he believed that runaway slaves should be returned to their masters because the law required it. In the late 1850s, as the pro- and antislavery forces became more extreme and more divided, he looked for a middle-of-the-road candidate who might be able to keep the nation from war. After briefly backing Stephen A. Douglas for president, he threw his support behind Abraham Lincoln. He was not present for Lincoln’s speech at Cooper Union in 1860, but he was in the crowd that turned out when Lincoln came to New York on his way to his inauguration. At other stops, the president-elect had been noisily welcomed, but in New York, 30,000 to 40,000 people stood on the streets in dead silence: “not a voice—not a sound,” Whitman wrote. This icy greeting served as a reminder that New York City was not in Lincoln’s camp.At a time when poets and writers often came from America’s wealthiest families, Whitman was unusual, a poor boy without much formal education who wrote about the lives of ordinary men and women. He saw events—even dramatic, national events—from the perspective of the everyday people who lived through them. This natural inclination became even more important to his poems and his life following a frightening experience in his family. A week before Christmas 1862, the Whitmans read a newspaper list of soldiers who had been wounded in battle. One of the names, they were sure, was a misspelling of George Whitman, the name of one of Walt Whitman’s brothers. Within hours, Walt was on his way from New York to the army hospitals in Washington, D.C., to look for his injured brother.After a desperate two-day search, Walt learned that George’s wound had been minor, and that he was still with his regiment. Walt was able to travel to the battlefield in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the two brothers spent a few days together. For Walt, it was a close-up view of war that he never forgot. He saw gruesome evidence of the terrible wounds the soldiers had suffered. He saw how young, scared, and lonely they were. And though he had no medical training, he spent the remainder of the war visiting the wounded in Washington’s hospitals, offering sympathy and words of encouragement. He wrote a number of poems about the cost of war for those who fight it and for their families.Whitman was in Brooklyn with his family when he read news of Lincoln’s assassination. He went across to Manhattan and walked along Broadway in the rain, writing that everything was draped in black, even the windows. He returned to Washington, D.C., three days after the president’s death, but he did not stand in line to see the body lying in state, and he did not hear the funeral sermon. He turned to poetry to mark his grief. He wrote “Hush’d Be the Camps To-day,” his first Lincoln poem. Not surprisingly, he focused on the feelings of soldiers who have lost “our dear commander.” Over the next months, Whitman wrote two other poems about Lincoln. “O Captain! My Captain!” has rhyming lines, which set it apart from his other verse. It was the only success Whitman had during his lifetime, and he was asked to read it often. It seemed to capture Americans’ simple and powerful reaction to the president’s death.Whitman’s great masterpiece is his long elegy to Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” In the wake of the assassination, newspapers reported that sprays of lilacs had surrounded Lincoln’s coffin, and lilac bushes were blooming in profusion all around Washington at the time of the funeral. For Whitman, these flowers and the night sky in springtime were forever associated with his memories of the fallen president. In Whitman’s stately poem, Lincoln is not presented as a saint or a god. He is “the sweetest, wisest soul,” the nation’s stolen leader, and a better man than most, but a man. For grieving readers, he represented all the deaths of this long and brutal war.

Select all that applyWhich would be appropriate general information sources to find background information on major American poets of the nineteenth century? Select all that apply.Multiple select question.“Song of Myself,” one of nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman’s most iconic poemsThe Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, which compiles author biographies, important texts, and developments in the history of American literatureThe Norton Anthology of American Literature, which collects the best works by the most important authors in American literatureThe Lonely House: A Biography of Emily Dickinson by author Paul Brody