What is his mother was a Quaker; his dad was very politically involved?
200
What was her education?
What is one year of formal schooling, several years of grammar school, but she was sick often so most of her education came from her father's library.
200
one/stone; gate/mat
What is slant rhyme?
200
what the firefighter saw as he died
What is other firefighters on their knees, silent in respect to him
200
a soldier dying, hearing the sounds of the other sides victory, shows Emily's belief that
What is success is found sweetest by those who never have it?
200
His trip to this place changed his perspective on a lot of things.
What is New Orleans?
300
How she changed in her 20s
What is she wore white and she became reclusive
300
ample brownish woolen blanket
What is imagery?
300
technique Whitman used to illustrate his theme; list of examples
What is a catalog?
300
why Emily capitalizes certain words
What is to personify them or to emphasize a particular word choice, give it life
300
Walt used this person's letter as an endorsement of his work.
Who is Emerson?
400
How many poems were published during her life vs. how many she wrote.
What is 7 vs. approx. 1700?
400
Whitman tried to capture this in the way he wrote his lines.
What is cadence? (also, the openness of the expanding frontier, limitlessness of America)
400
where Whitman sees a young boy, an old man, and a face like Christ
What is dead, outside the hospital?
400
Tell the truth but tell it slant means this
What is truth must be told completely but slowly.
400
two professions Whitman pursued besides writing poetry
What is teaching, journalism, building things
500
Two theories for her change in her 20s
What is she loved a married man (or two); she was homosexual; nothing happened--there is no mystery because she just kept house
500
gaunt and grim, dead and divine
What is alliteration?
500
Things Whitman thought about, inspired by a leaf of grass (must have 3)
What is that he didn't know what it was, that it reminded him of eternity (circle of life), his attitude toward life, a handkerchief left by God, equality or unity
500
Two views of God shown in two poems
What is God is approving of death, but heaven and God definitely exist
500
how his portrait differed from other poets of the time
What is it was full-length, featured an open collar, relaxed, earthy, informal?