Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Dalliance of the Eagles/Wild Nights Whitman/Dickerson

I really enjoyed reading these poems on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickerson. Whitman more of a poet that writes free verse poetry. I really tuned in on the poem the dilliance of the eagles. Whitman i think was basically outside one day close by a road by a river and all of a sudden glances in the sky and recognizes two eagles. Two eagles seem to be in a tussal over something maybe a female eagle, because in the poem i read that two eagles tightly together,wings flapping fiercly they where going after it. Maybe one of the eagles didnt make it so later on in the poem last line in the poem on page 983 it says (she hers, he his, pursing). So yes the females eagle sees that one eagle is still on his true flight to mate with her because he was the last eagle out of two to still flying victorious. I enjoyed the writtings of dickerson poetry but the one that really caught my eye was wild nights. I think it wasnt emily who was the one in this poem. She could be just narrating this one, Emily tells use the wild nights that a certain peron had with someone. That someone to me i thnk shes talking about was the sea. Wild nights they may have had on this sea maybe drinking, fishing, or probably just out on a big boat shooting in the skies. this poem just showed alil of what was going on but it caught my interest.

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