1. By: Mya Taylor

2.  Edgar Allen Poe  He liked to make mysteries and crazy stories.  Difficult to read and understand.  Brief  Sticks to the point.  Prose  3.5  Walt Whitman  Free verse  Used weird symbols  Put sex into his poems.  3

3.  Edgar Allen Poe  Born Jan. 19, 1809  Orphaned when his mom died and dad abandoned him.  Lived only off of his writing. 3  Walt Whitman  Born May 31, 1819  Worked many different jobs during the civil war.  Sexuality is unknown  3

4.  Edgar Allen Poe  Dark Romanticism  Science Fiction 4  Walt Whitman  Transcendentalism  Realism  Wrote about sex and death.  3

5.  Edgar Allen Poe  Difficult to read  Difficult to understand  2  Walt Whitman  Easy to read  Easy to understand  Uses things that everyone knows.  5

6.  Edgar Allen Poe  1 st American author to become famous in Europe.  Called the “father of prose”  Influenced science fiction.  5  Walt Whitman  Americas fist “poet of democracy”  Final stanza of his poem “The Wound- Dresser” is engraved in the wall of Dupoint Circle transit system.  4.5

7.  Edgar Allen Poe  17.5  His pieces of work are harder to understand and you had to really pay attention.  Walt Whitman  18.5  Easier to understand and wrote about things in everyday life.