Search all 13:04 @ 100% X Х Quiz 4: Attempt 1 Question 2 -- /20 “I speak the password primeval, I give the sign of democracy; / By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms" (p. 1347). Describe the democratic project of the poem: what does it include? For whom are the things it accepts catalogued, and why? Whom does the poem seem to be addressing, and to what purpose? Type your answer Question 3 -- / 20 Consider the confident tone of the poem's voice: "In vain the speeding or shyness, / In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach, / In vain the mastodon retreats beneath its own powder'd bones, / In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes, / In vain the ocean settling in hollows O of 5 completed Save for Later Submit Search - 13:04 @ 100% X Х Quiz 4: Attempt 1 Question 3 -- / 20 Consider the confident tone of the poem's voice: “In vain the speeding or shyness, / In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach, / In vain the mastodon retreats beneath its own powder'd bones, / In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes, / In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low" (p. 1352). The shapes, sizes, and dangers in this passage are often taken as the sublime, something to be regarded with awe and terror. How does Whitman treat the sublime in this poem? Type your answer Question 4 -- /20 Consider this passage about recalcitrant responses to the speaker's expansive desires: "Down-hearted doubters dull and excluded, / Frivolous, sullen, moping, angry, affected, O of 5 completed Save for Later Submit Search - 13:04 @ 100% X Х Quiz 4: Attempt 1 Question 4 -- /20 Consider this passage about recalcitrant responses to the speaker's expansive desires: “Down-hearted doubters dull and excluded, / Frivolous, sullen, moping, angry, affected, dishearten'd atheistical, / I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief" (p. 1366). How does this poem deal with readers who resist its attempt to include them? Type your answer Question 5 -- / 20 “Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (1 am large, I contain multitudes.)" (p. 1373). In attempting to include every American perspective within it, the poem cannot avoid running into contradictions. Yet the voice seems unconcerned about this :.....kl. Lit.i. ali....... O of 5 completed Save for Later Submit Search il 13:04 @ 100% X Х Quiz 4: Attempt 1 youn NUNTULITICII UVw UP and unbelief" (p. 1366). How does this poem deal with readers who resist its attempt to include them? Type your answer Question 5 -- / 20 "Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” (p. 1373). In attempting to include every American perspective within it, the poem cannot avoid running into contradictions. Yet the voice seems unconcerned about this inevitable consequence of its indiscriminate inclusion. Decide whether not this lack of concern is a problem for the poem and what it has to say about democracy, and explain your answer. Type your answer O of 5 completed Save for Later Submit Search all 13:04 @ 100% X Х Quiz 4: Attempt 1 Question 1 -- /20 "Song of Myself" begins lazily: "I loafe and invite my soul, / I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass” (p. 1330). Discuss the power of leisureliness in this poem. How are the long lines and rhythms contributing to a sense of being at ease? How does patience and restfulness look in comparison with the obvious ambitions of the poem? Type your answer Question 2 -- / 20 “I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy; / By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms” (p. 1347). Describe the democratic project of the poem: what does it include? For whom are the things it accepts catalogued, and why? Whom does the poem O of 5 completed Save for Later Submit
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