Question

Now return to your book, and select a poem from whitman or dickinson that you did not study in the unit. explain how the poem reveals romantic thinking. cite examples from the poem as your support.

Answer 1

Whitman’s A Woman Waits for Me expresses romantic thinking through revealing the sexual desire between the protagonists, and the symbolization sex has as a physical act between two who desire each other; as shown in the poem, “All Hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the Earth,”

Answer 2

A Woman Waits for Me by Whiteman demonstrates romantic thinking by revealing the sexual desire a man has for women, and sex represents the amalgamation of every human emotion transferred into a physical act between two people that desire each other.