Discuss the effectiveness of poetry as a mode of expression (using examples from Whitman) versus the effectiveness of prose (using examples from Dickens and Dostoyevsky). Think in terms of political, psychological, personal, and other forms of expression. The assignment should be supported by the literature (quotations from the novels and the poems). 3 pages in length.
Use these for textual evidence
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens (pearsoncmg.com)
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Project Gutenberg E-text of Notes from the Underground, by Feodor Dostoevsky (pearsoncmg.com)
“As I Ponder’d in Silence” by Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (pearsoncmg.com)