Transcendentalism, Walt Whitman Hilda “H. D” Doolittle uses heavily-allusive imagist poems to redefine gender-roles and contradict the characterization of ladies as delicate and fragile. H. M pulls from ancient Greek literature to write strong not-traditionally-feminine women into her own current culture and re-inscribe customarily feminine numbers Helen of Troy, tulips, or Mom Mary in tougher, […]