Similarities Between Whitman And Ginsberg
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Two of the greatest poets of the 19th and 20th centuries, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsburg, have become a staple in history’s literature and big influences for modern day poets. The poems within Leaves of Grass and Howl and Other Poems are some of the most recognizable from the past two centuries. Though the poets are a century apart, they share many common themes throughout their poems. Neither poet utilizes rhyming. They share a style of using and listing individual examples of people. Both poets are American, and their poems focus on their country and its people. The writers, however, have slightly different views on the present state and future of America. Whitman celebrates the new nation and its people while Ginsberg criticizes