The pages of human history are punctuated with progress. From invention to revolution, change has been a constant theme. The idea of stagnation is a repugnant one, and one that authors are oft eager to address.

The Chimney Sweeper:

I am going to begin my post by stating that I have always held a soft spot in my heart for Emily Dickinson. I really dig her distinct style she uses for writing her poetry. It sets her apart from other poets in my eyes and is something I find rather intriguing. Anyhow. Dickinson provides a great amount of detail in each of her pieces. In one of her pieces that begins on 3051 she uses words such as frog, bog, nerve, swerve, door, and more. On 3053 we see Dickinson using words such as heaven, given, and even which allow the poem to flow nicely off the readers tongue.

Emily Dickinson..... Please make sense! Her poems are like trying to understand Picasso's art. Its abstract but is simply just an illusion to something. The one word or words that correlated to that word I chose was "Mind" It's repetitive in almost each poem.
From "Much Madness" it deals with the product of the mind and how madness can effect it. "Assen-and you are sane" and "Much Madness is divinest Sense" (Dickinson 3059)

From "the brain", which is titled obviously to fit as well as descriptive in the workings of them mind. "The Brain-is wider than the Sky" (Dickinson 3067)

Melville spun together an interesting tale in "Bartleby, the Scrivener" however it was hinting towards a lot of anti-wallstreet. His characterization was obviously showing different aspects of Wallstreet its self like Turkey, "Turkey was a short, pursy (fat) Englishman of about my own age, that is, somewhere not far from sixty.

Whitman was a very witty man indeed (pun-tastic!) His fourty page epic "Song Of Myself" includes many ideas that America is made or should be made of. He explores the idea of diversity in this country as well as equality.
"I resist anything better than my own diversity,
And breathe the air and leave plenty after me,
And am not stuck up, and am in my place" (Whitman 2949)

Edgar Allen Poe had a sad life and a very depressing collection of short stories and poetry. He was, however a genius when it came to writing. In his work "The Philosophy of Composition" he explains his most famous poem, "The Raven" in higher detail. He first explains how he came up with the idea for the theme.

Grimke's arguments were much like Douglass and Emerson's writing. Angelina reminded me of Emerson with some passages like this, "Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with Wngland, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of propert now are." (Grimke 2089) This does reminde me of the arguments that Emerson made about unfair taxation that was going to the U.S war campagne.

Linda Jacobs and Fredrick Douglass were both slaves but they both had different experences. They both had their mothers die from a young age, "She dies when I was about seven years old." (Douglass 1890), "I was six years old when my mother died." (Jacobs 2032) There living spaces differed, Douglass lived on a plantation until he was sent away, while Jacobs worked for a rich family.

Fredrick Douglass had a horrible life that is almost unimaginable in modern times. Right from the begining of his Narrative he says "I have no accuret knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of their, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slave thus ignorant." (Douglass 1889) The only way I can compare that to modern times is in places struck by large amounts of poverty, where children are either abandoned or sent off to work.