1. Write a comparative analysis of the following poems or extracts by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, making particular reference to how their poetic techniques influence your conceptual and emotional understanding of the poem:(a)From Walt Whitman, As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life 1As I ebb’d with the ocean of life,As I wended the shores I know,As I walk’d where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,Where they rustle up hoarse and sibilant,Where the fierce old mother endlessly cries for her castaways,I musing late in the autumn day, gazing off southward,Held by this electric self out of the pride of which I utter poems,Was seiz’d by the spirit that trails in the lines underfoot,The rim, the sediment that stands for all the water and all the land of the globe.Fascinated, my eyes reverting from the south, dropt, to follow those slender windrows,Chaff, straw, splinters of wood, weeds, and the sea-gluten, Scum, scales from shining rocks, leaves of salt-lettuce, left by the tide,Miles walking, the sound of breaking waves the other side of me,Paumanok there and then as I thought the old thought of likenesses,These you presented to me you fish-shaped island,As I wended the shores I know,As I walk’d with that electric self seeking types.(b)Emily Dickinson, “I Started Early – Took My Dog” I started Early – Took my Dog –And visited the Sea –The Mermaids in the BasementCame out to look at me –And Frigates – in the Upper FloorExtended Hempen Hands –Presuming Me to be a Mouse –Aground – opon the Sands –But no Man moved Me – till the TideWent past my simple Shoe –And past my Apron – and my BeltAnd past my Boddice – too –And made as He would eat me up –As wholly as a DewOpon a Dandelion’s Sleeve –And then – I started – too –And He – He followed – close behind –I felt His Silver HeelOpon my Ancle – Then My ShoesWould overflow with Pearl –Until We met the Solid Town –No One He seemed to know –And bowing – with a Mighty look –At me – The Sea withdrew –Make your arguments primarily from the texts set for analysis.
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