Frequently Asked Questions...
What are the difference between Walt Whitman poems and William Shakespeare poem?
Walt Whitman Poem titles, "A Noiseless Patient Spider" ; " Cavalry Crossing a Ford" ; "When I heard the Learn'd" and William Shakes Pear poems are "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing" ; "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds" ; Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments" ; "When, in Disgrace with Fortune and men's Eyes". What are the similarity and diffences between 1 of the poems they wrote. Doesnt have to be all the poems.
Answer:
It's quite a forbidding list to choose from even though it's clear you want someone to choose just one.
My guess is that the main reason why you have been asked to make the comparison between these two particular poets is that W.S. wrote all of his work (and I mean everything) in Iambic Pentameter. He was a champion of form, even having a type of form named after him. The "Shakespearian Sonnet" was not invented by W.S. it was just named after him because he was so good at them.
In fact the first known sonnets in English, written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, used the Italian scheme, as did sonnets by later English poets including John Milton, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Early twentieth-century American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay also wrote most of her sonnets using the Italian form.
While Wyatt introduced the sonnet into English, it was actually Surrey who gave them the rhyming meter, and division into quatrains that now characterise the English sonnet.
Walt Whitman on the other hand is recognised in the world of poetry for being the father of free verse. So while poetry for Shakespeare was nothing without form (meter, rhyme, alliteration and so on), Walt Whitman in his work refrains from writing in meter patterns, in rhyme, or in any other musical pattern that was commonly understood to be poetry.
Whitman was a big part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. So his non use of form was a very important thing to him because it signified to him and his flowers that he eschewed the doctrines of the empirical and established doctrines of religion in favour of the individual's intuition.
Shakespeare was mostly an establishmentarian, that's why and how he came to be patronised by by Royalty (in the form of Queen Elizabeth I) whereas Whitman, being anti-establishmentarian, and having written extremely controversial pieces like the poetry collection called Leaves Of Grass was distinctly unsuited to similar patronage.
To make things worse his sexuality was (and still is) often discussed alongside his poetry. Back then homosexuality was illegal. Even a hint of it immediately made one a social outcast.
His poetry presented an egalitarian view of the races, which was also uncommon in a public figure at the time. At one point he openly espoused the abolition of slavery. He did retract his plea later on because he thought it would do damage to democracy but that too set him against what Christianity was doing (because they were misionaries mostly concerned with spreading the Lord's good word not setting themselves against Governments) and of course what many countries were also doing.
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