Using Song of Myself and at least one other poem written by Walt Whitman, discuss one aspect of his life his upbringing in an abusive home, his sexuality, his views on religion, or his experience in the Civil War and write a paper in which you discuss how his life experience(s) are represented in or affect the poem(s). Use at least one UCC Library database article to support your argument. Compare Emily Dick

Between 1200-1500 words. This paper will be about one of two topics using Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.

Choose one of the following topics:

Using Song of Myself and at least one other poem written by Walt Whitman, discuss one aspect of his life his upbringing in an abusive home, his sexuality, his views on religion, or his experience in the Civil War and write a paper in which you discuss how his life experience(s) are represented in or affect the poem(s). Use at least one UCC Library database article to support your argument.
Compare Emily Dickinson to Walt Whitman. Discuss at least two of the following topics in the two authors’ works:
Love and passion
A rejection of social institutions
Agency and power
Nature and natural science
Death
Gender
Sexuality
Authorship (the importance of poetry)
The Civil War
For this paper, you must use UCC Library databases, including Questia, and you may use other sources.