Sarah Debnam

Web Drop In #5

Slm 521/Fall 2004

Venn Diagrams

Walt Whitman highly respected the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emerson highly respected the works of Whitman. Even though the two poets have different styles of writing they both wrote about a lot of the same topics. Your job for this web drop in will be to create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the topics of two of their poems.

Activity

1. You will read Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” and Emerson’s poem “World-Soul”.

2. During and after reading the poems jot down the topics you come across and the specific lines

where you found the topics.

3. Go to Microsoft Word and open a new page. Type your name in the upper left corner. Click

“Insert”, click “Diagram”, and choose the Venn Diagram.

4. Fill in the diagram with the topics that you found in the poems that were similar and different. You will use your Venn diagram to help you compose a short paper later this week.