Describe whitman vocabulary

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Assignment:

Please help me to answer these questions

1. List the speaker, audience, and rhetorical situation.

2. What does the speaker mean when he says "every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you"? How are we all one?

3. Why do you think it was important to Whitman to use free verse?

4. Describe Whitman's vocabulary. Does it support or refute critics' claims that his poetry is not refined enough for print? Why?

"Song of Myself" Excerpts from Sections 1 and 6

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,

I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,

Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same...

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands...

Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation...

Growing among black folks as among white,

Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff,1 I give them the same, I receive them the same.

And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Tenderly will I use you curling grass,

It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,

It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,

It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps.

And here you are the mothers' laps...

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