The first poem by Emily Dickinson has a positive view of nature. According to Dickinson, the slant light during winter offers people hope to live and solve their problems amicably. Secondly, the poem is field with emotions of love and hope. For instance, “˜when it comes, the landscape listen’ portrays the love contained by the landscape when light strikes. On the other hand, the poem by Walt Whitman has a negative view of nature. For example, “˜I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world’ shows how brutal nature can be to the world. For this reason, it has sadistic emotion.
The poem by Dickinson has a low smooth tone that gives hope to the readers about nature. When readers are reading this poem, they are encouraged by the hope provided by nature during difficult times. On the contrary, the poem by Whitman has a rough and brutal tone. Whitman shows that nature can sometimes be harsh despite all the encouragement and hope it offers the world. However, at the end, the poem offers reader expectation to see that nature is not always brutal. Therefore, nature is a ray of hope, no matter how brutal.
Finally, if to compare the two poems, it can be said that they are similar. They both contain imagery to show readers a picture of what nature can do to the world. For instance, the poem by Dickinson shows how the winter light is so slant that it can be compared with the cathedral tunes. In this case, readers have a picture of how slant the winter light is in their minds. Similarly, the poem by Whitman creates a picture in readers’ minds that shows them nature. “˜I depart like air.’ In this case, readers have a picture of how the object departs when they imagine how airs moves in their mind.