Compare and contrast William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 55” with Walt Whitman’s “Full of Life Now.”
Compare and contrast William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 55” with Walt Whitman’s “Full of Life Now.” In doing so, you should decide how, or whether, they take on a similar problem. What are they after? How do they go about it? How do they apply form differently to get at their basic idea? How does the poetic form affect meaning? You may access author biographies to help answer.