Question

How were Whitman and Dickinson shocking and/or radical?

Answer 1

Answer:

Both poets broke the tradition of poetry at the time and found a unique way to express themselves, which was groundbreaking in the world of poetry at the time.

Whitman used common language that was easy to understand, and included "taboo" subject matter in his poems. Dickinson, meanwhile, experimented widely with punctuation and capitalization, and produced poems with much more insightful and concise content than those before her.

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