t also represents Life. Yet the ‘floor is too cool for corn’. Corn grows in hot, dry places. This coolness (winter) is the representation of death. What Dickinson could be trying to say through these simple sentences, is that the man is living after death. This representation of an after-life also gives the impression that, similar to Whitman, she welcomes death. “I feel for them (dead people) a transport/ Of cordiality” (lines 19-20). She’s talking about a transport of dying as if going to another life. Yet, it’s a transport of cordiality which puts death in a gentle manner, further noting her positive outlook on it.Whitman and Dickinson both describe death as a positive event in a person’s life, yet both poets arrive at same conclusions of death through different procedures. They have their unique styles of portraying similar views. Whitman’s poem the “Wound-Dresser” is very lengthy and descriptive. He uses adjective-filled sentences to describe emotions towards particular situations, enabling the reader to feel through his shoes. His work is more like a story in a poetic form. Unlike Whitman, Dickinson is very concise and ambiguous in her explanations. She is very preoccupied with detail, but allows the reader to interpret her symbolic word-choice via imagination. Her tone to the poem is very innocent-like and simple, yet with much meaning if read between the lines. Whitman’s tone on the other hand, is more straightforward, dramatic and impacting. He describes in more gross detail.Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman each differ in the manner in which they write; they each have unique styles. Though they differ in the tone and voice, they arrive at similar conclusions of death in their poems “Wound-Dresser” (by Whitman) and “Narrow Fellow in the Grass” (by Dickinson). Whitman explains the healing effect that death brings to suffer...
