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One of the few published in her lifetime
Themes: nature, death
Nature is ambivalent, it has a friendly face, at the same time, it hides dangers
The “narrow fellow" is a snake, it appears and disappears suddenly
The poem shows how deceptive can snakes be
The poem’s speaker, claims to be a nature lover, but he cannot love the snake
There is  ambivalence here, because the snake is startling but at the same time chilling for the speaker

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She didn’t want her poems to be published, she wanted to destroy them
She had many major themes in her writings, such as: religion, death, home and family nature and love
Most of Dickinson’s poetry was written during the american civil war
Her work is extremely innovative and unconventional
She was writing for herself, her lack of interest in publication meant a free experiment with language
She had an unique use of punctuation and syntax

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Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in a puritan environment
In Philadelphia she met Charles Wadsworth, she married him
Dedicated her life to letter writing and composition of poems
Died in 1886

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walter Whitman was born in 1819 in West Hills, he is considered the father of of American poetry and he was the first modern poet that used the free verse.
At the age of 11 he left school to work as a practitioner by the editorial staff of the Patriot.

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Walt was then employed by oyher printers like Erasthus worthington in Brooklyn and The Long Island star.
Several years later he then found his own newspaper the “Long Islander”  but after 10 months he sold it to E.O Crowell.
He worked as a typesetter in 1839 but he left shortafter and he started teaching but he was fired for a controversy that possibly was not true, he worked for short period of times for several newspapers.
Whitman sided with the free soil “barnburner” wing of democratic party which were the anti-slavery faction because of that Whitman lost his position in the newspaper the Brooklyn Eagle as his owner sided with the Hunkers, the conservative wing of the party.

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Whitman determined to become a poet and in 1855 he published “Leaves of grass” paying for the publication of the first edition of the book himself.
This collection of poetry gathered much interest but was at the same time criticized as profane and obscene.
Due to his financial difficulties, Whitman had to work as a journalist again.

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Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in a puritan environment

In Philadelphia she met Charles Wadsworth, she married him

Dedicated her life to letter writing and composition of poems

Died in 1886.
is startling but at the same time chilling for the speaker She didn’t want her poems to be published, she wanted to destroy them

She had many major themes in her writings, such as: religion, death, home and family nature and love

Most of Dickinson’s poetry was written during the american civil war

Her work is extremely innovative and unconventional

She was writing for herself, her lack of interest in publication meant a free experiment with language

She had an unique use of punctuation and syntax

Although the words she uses might seem simple, the content is complex

She was a forerunner of contemporary poetry

She wrote lots of poems, like: “ i measure every grief i meet", “a man may make a remark", “a narrow fellow in the grass", “knows how to forget!”

A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS

One of the few published in her lifetime

Themes: nature, death

Nature is ambivalent, it has a friendly face, at the same time, it hides dangers

The “narrow fellow" is a snake, it appears and disappears suddenly

The poem shows how deceptive can snakes be

The poem’s speaker, claims to be a nature lover, but he cannot love the snake

There is  ambivalence here, because the snake

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He moved from Washington to New Jersey after suffering a paralytic stroke, his mother died as well the same year leaving Walt depressed.
In New Jersey he lived at his brother house was very active and wrote many edtion of "Leaves of grass" but he then had to buy his own house because his brother and sister in law had to move to another city.
He spent the last years of his life in his house in Camden and died in 1892.

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Leaves of grass:
is a poetry collection which was first published in 1855 but the author rewrote it until his death.
the first edition was a book of 12 poems, the last one was a collection of over 400.
the poems of Leaves of grass are not connected, they represent the athor's philosophy, which was much criticized at the time as these poems emphasized the sensual pleasures during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral.
the poems do not rhyme or follow standard rules for meter and line length.
leaves of grass responds to the impact urbanization had on America.
the themes of the poems aren't static as Walt revised the book in several editions.
the first period focused more on the poet's love for freedom, which is seen as a synonym of nature that the poet sees as perfect and that leads to love in a sensuous form.
the second period is characterized by a more melancholic and sober form of poetry, the main theme is death.
the last period that goes from 1866 to his death, Whitman evolved the ideas of the second period to a less materialistic view of the world, he became more spiritual and believed that the importance of law exceeded the importance of freedom.

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Whitman left for Washington in 1862 with the purpose of never returning to New York as he was profoundly affected by seeing the wounded soldiers while he was looking for his brother Geroge that had to join the Union army and that could have possibly been dead.
In Washington he worked as a nurse in the army hospital, he wrote and published the experience in the "The Great Army of the Sick" and 12 years later in a book called "Memoranda During the War".
He found a job at the Attorney general's office and that consisted in interviewing former Confederate soldiers for presidential pardons. meanwhile he was preparing a new edition of his masterpiece "leaves of grass" and in 1868 "poems of Walt Whitman" was published in England and it became very popular.