Preface to Leaves of Grass
How does Whitman believe America views the past?
Whitman believes that America does not "repel the past" but instead views the past as a way to learn from its mistakes.
What seems to happen to Whitman at the end of the poem?
Whitman dies and is buried in the ground.
What types of jobs does Whitman highlight in "I Hear America Singing?"
more abundant
What is ampler?
A writing technique that uses words that relate to the five senses to create vivid descriptions and evoke emotions in the reader.
What is sensory diction?
Why does Whitman view America as the greatest country?
What were Whitman's views on death in "Song of Myself"
Walt Whitman's poetry on death includes a variety of ideas, including the belief that death is a part of life's cycle, that the soul is immortal, and that death is a time of rebirth in the form of grass.
What is the allegory in "I Hear America Singing?"
The varied carols represent the diversity of the different roles that America's unappreciated workers fulfill.
Something that is full to the brim and everywhere
What is teeming?
A literary device that involves placing two or more things side by side to highlight their differences or similarities.
What is juxtaposition?
What does Whitman mean when he mentions, "the new life of the new forms?"
America is free from past traditions, and embraces a new way of living for the new generation
The main theme of the poem
All human life should be celebrated because Whitman believed in the equality and uniqueness of all individuals.
Who is the captain in O Captain! My Captain!
Abe Lincoln
Something that is fruitful
What is prolific?
is a collection of people, objects, ideas, and other elements in list form within poetry or prose
What is catalogue?
What does Whitman compare America to?
A poem
What does Whitman mean when he says to "put creeds and schools in abeyance?"
We should acknowledge religious teachings and education but learn to think on our own.
"I harbor for good or bad. I permit to speak at every hazard. Nature without check with original energy."
What are the two behaviors being juxtaposed with each other in "O Captain! My Captain!"
The crowd's exulting over the ship's return home and the speaker's devastation towards the Captain's death.
wide range; expansive
What is breadth?
A type of figurative language where a word actually looks or sounds like the sound it is intended to make.
What is onomatopoeia?
What quality that America possesses makes it a hero in Whitman's eyes?
Its hospitality
Meaning of the following lines:
"These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, / If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing. . . . "
Whitman's poetry and thoughts are those in which mankind from every time period and part of the world thinks about.
How many singers does Whitman catalogue in "I Hear America singing?"
12
A large number of people or things
What are multitudes?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences
What is anaphora?