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What is Whitman probably
refering to in “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” when he writes about “The impalpable sustenance of me from all
things”?
being spiritually fed by his surroundings
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What does Whitman probably
mean in “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” by “It avails not, time nor place--distance
avails not”?
that we all have the same perceptions of things
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Who are the “dumb,
beautiful ministers” Whitman addresses in the last stanza of “Crossing Brooklyn
Ferry”?
the buildings of Manhatten
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Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle
Endlessly Rocking” may be best described as:
an elegy
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What does Whitman probably
mean when he calls the bird a “demon” in “Out of the Cradle. . .”?
that he is possessed by its soul
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What “word final, superior to
all” does the sea tell Whitman in “Out of the Cradle. . .”?
Death
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What permanent effect does
the mockingbird’s song have on Whitman?
it makes him a poet
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Where does Walt Whitman tell you to look for him near the end of “Song of Myself”?
under your boot-soles
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According to lecture, cities
tend to represent what for Whitman?
growth
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What color is the “flag of
my disposition” in Whitman’s “Song of Myself?”
green
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Toward the end of "Song of Myself," Whitman says he will make what kind of sound?
a barbaric yawp
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One section of "Song of
Myself" describes a richly dressed woman watching twenty-nine
bathers
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When the child asks him
what grass is in "Song of Myself," what’s Whitman’s initial thought
about the grass?
he doesn’t know what it is
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In section 51 of “Song of
Myself”, which line follows "Do I contradict myself?"
Very well then I contradict myself.
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What best describes the
poetry Whitman wrote?
free verse
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After publishing Leaves of Grass, Whitman...
- added more poems to it and published
- it again repeatedly
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What is Whitman, the
poet-narrator, doing at the beginning of Song of Myself ?
loafing and observing
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What, probably, is the
“liquor never brewed” that Dickinson tastes?
life
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What
does the fly probably represent in “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died”?
decay
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Dickinson’s “A Certain
Slant of Light” compares the feeling the light gives her to the “heft” of:
cathedral tunes
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The “hangover” feeling to
Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” is suggested in part by an image
which says she feels “As all the Heavens were a Bell” and her being but a(n):
ear
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What is the difference in
tone between "I heard a fly buzz--when I died," and "There's a
Certain Slant of Light?"
- one is about death as a good thing, the other about
- death as a bad thing
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