Answer: C. Though their personalities were very different, Dickinson and Whitman are both important poets because they captured elements of American life in memorable ways.
Explanation:
This is the most effective comparison-contrast statement because it shows why the two poets should have been different but instead surmounted those differences and had a shared legacy.
It did this by showing that even though both poets had different characters, they managed to capture American lifestyle in a memorable manner even though they would have been expected not to do so seeing as they are similar people.
I would say that the first stanza reveals the theme that romantic notions shape one's youth.
The narrator is saying how what he felt in his youth shaped his young life - he is saying that romance "taught me my alphabet to say," meaning that it helped him learn about life. In the next stanza, he is trying to say that when we are older, we often remember these moments with fondness.
It is not! it just needs a comma after england to make it sound better :)
