How were the writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville different from those of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne? Whitman and Melville wrote about individualism and adventure, while Hawthorne and Poe were more concerned with darker moral themes of humanity.

Whitman and Melville used allegory and symbolism in their writing, while Hawthorne and Poe did not.

Whitman and Melville wrote poetry that rhymes, while Hawthorne and Poe rejected rhyming.

Whitman and Melville wrote about darker moral themes of humanity, while Hawthorne and Poe were more concerned with individualism and adventure.