Write a short essay in which you compare and contrast these excerpts, paying particular attention to the voice and persona of the speakers in these extracts.
Read the following extracts from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and Elizabeth Barret Browning’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”. [from Leaves of Grass] Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir; I have been wronged . . . . I am oppressed . […]