Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were two great authors of the late 19th Century. Both Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are to be considered modern writers by many people, their writings can be similar in ways and not. There are some differences in their writing styles of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. One of the things I did notice in there poems or writings was how they structured it. Whitman's poems tend to just go on and on and on; there was no set length for his poems, Also Whitman's poems are very detailed and have a strong vivid description while reading his poems, he lets the reader to form a clear picture about his poems. (pg.1024). As for Emily Dickinson, on the other hand, she wrote poems that would have structure in them. She wrote poems with ballad stanzas, which were four line stanza, and she also has a strong imagination making the poem come alive in the reader's mind. (pg.1273). so in many ways they were different in there poems. Another difference between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson is their poetry. Walt Whitman poetry has no rhyme to it, it made my head hurt while reading Whitman's poems, as for Dickinson she had a slight rhyme to her poems which was nice.  By studying these two poems, one can see several obvious similarities between them, one had no structure at all in there poems, but the other wrote in four line stanzas. "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July by Fredrick Douglass?"  In his speech Fredrick Douglass argues that to the slave, and even to the freed African Americans, the Fourth of July is no more than a mockery or a joke,  in the beginning of the speech Douglass repeatedly questions his own worth and ability to stand before the President and citizens of America. (pg.1002). Frederick Douglass immediately maintains a certain break or boundary between himself and his audience that he is addressing through his choice of words and language. He constantly makes bold statements such as "your Na