truth and of the utmost economy, her concepts of life and death, of love and nature, and of . . . "the landscape of the soul" (Linscott iii).
Whitman, on the other hand, is out dancing through the streets and fields of life while Dickinson watches and contemplates from behind her window. He is capable of more still and deeper thought, such as this from "Resurgemus":
[Yet] those corpses of young men. . .
Live elsewhere wuith undying vitality;
They live in other young men, O kings. . . .
Not a grave of those slaughtered ones,
But is growing its seed of freedom,
Which the winds shall carry far and resow,
And the rains nourish (Allen 168).
Whitman's poems on death are certainly among his most moving and effective, but, as in the excerpt above, he is far more likely than Dickinson to immediately rush from thoughts of death to thoughts of some form of resurrection or at least continuity of life. In the poem above, for
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