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When I Heard the Learn'd Astromomer
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Song of Myself 1
Song of Myself 21
Song of myself 31 and 52
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The person who provides the charts, diagrams, proofs, and figures
Who is the learn'd astronomer
100
A comparison between two things
What is an analogy?
100
The two letters that are alliterated in line 5 of this poem
What are "l" and "s"?
100
How the Author deals with the pains of hell
What is puts his pains in his poetry?
100
The similarities between a "statue" and "machinery"
What is both are complex " " take time to create " " are created by man
200
How the author prefers to learn about the stars
What is viewing them in person
200
The behavior the author sees in the spider
What is making a web
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The belief that causes the author to assume all people have much in common
What is every atom is owned by "you" and "me"
200
The amount of value women hold when compared to men
What is the same amount, if not more.
200
The theme of section 31 of this poem
What is "You will hardly know 'what I am' or 'what I mean'."
300
The two locations the author goes to in the poem
What is "in the lecture hall" and "under the stars"
300
What the spider's filament is compared to from the poet's possession
What is His thoughts " " his poetry
300
The people the poet alludes to in this section of the peom
Who are Adam and Eve?
300
Yes or no-Whitman thinks we should take pride in ourselves and our work
What is "yes"
300
What the poet's barbaric "Yawp" refers to
What is his poetry
400
How the author feels about the diagrams, charts, etc.
What is Lame (or any variation of the word)
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How the spider's web and the poet's poems are similar
What is "They both 'catch' things, whether they be people or bugs."
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What the author hopes to do until he dies
What is "speak of nature"
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The Passage that helps to confirm the 300 point question in this category
What is "I chant the chant of diction or pride"
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How the author bequeaths himself to the dirt
What is gives himself to nature/becomes buried in the dirt.
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Why the word learn'd ironic in this poem
What is "The author is smart, but clueless to the best way to learn about something-experience.
500
The thing that flings the gossamer thread mentioned in line 10
What is Whitman's Soul
500
What the author plans to do to get close to nature
What is "go out and live in it"
500
The thing that is personified in this section of the poem
What is the night
500
The best demonstration of parallelism in line 44
What is "You will hardly know 'what I am' or 'what I mean'."