Midterm paper. What Makes the Authors Original?Literature & Language

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What Makes the Authors Original?
Franz Kafka is original in various ways. For instance, the protagonists in his texts were isolated figures faced with bizarre and surrealistic predicaments and unfathomable bureaucracies. Moreover, his work displays his intelligence. He mainly used his dreams, which were actual and ordinary. However, dreams comprise a suspension of the standard logic, which identifies why it is always difficult for many people to recount their dreams. Moreover, dreams portray the shade of inexplicable or absurd events where one's surroundings transform and evaporate in the "dream logic." However, the absurdist undercurrent that runs through people's dreams was not an issue for Kafka. As such, Kafka was able to describe the absurd naturally that people could not question how logical it was.
Emily Dickinson is original in that she was known for her countless themes of mortality and death and her eccentric personality (Prahl). Dickinson was a prolific writer, although only a smaller percentage of her poems were published during her time. She was not mostly known when she was alive. However, after her death, the American literary canon considered most of her work.
Walt Whitman was original in various ways. For example, he was a humanist and contributed significantly to the transition between transcendentalism and realism, by integrating the two concepts in his literary works ("About Walt Whitman | Academy Of American Poets"). Whitman is among the prominent poets in the United States Canon. He wrote the Leaves of Grass that was widely read and perceived as a type of American epic in the Dante and Homer traditions. Currently the "Leaves of Grass" is still the most enduring, well-loved, and well-known poetry works of Whitman in the American canon. Furthermore, during the outbreak of civil war in the 1860s, Whitman decided to live a "cleansed" and "purged" life. As a result, he worked as a freelance journalist, and would visit the people affected in hospitals within New York. In 1862, he travelled to Washington DC, to take care for his brother who had suff...