1. What types of professions would be celebrated in a modern poetic tribute to Americans?Doctors, care-takers, and teachers
2. What words and phrases indicate Whitman’s empathy with heroic people?
3. If you could choose a modern American hero to add to Whitman’s poem, “I Hear America Singing,” Who would you choose and why? I would choose teachers because they are those who educate.
4. What do you believe is Whitman’s concept of heroism?I believe that his concepts of heroism is that heroism is instilled in all Americans where they try to help civilize American life.
5. Throughout “Song of Myself,” Whitman uses the pronoun “I” in order to empathize with people. What effect does this use of the first person have on the reader?The effect that Whitman desire is for people to be sble to relate to his views.
6. How would Whitman celebrate the cultural diversity found in America today?Whitman would write a poem about how well people of diffrent cultures and races interact.
7. What landscapes do you feel Whitman would praise today?Whitman would praise landscapes, statues, and the beauty of nature.
8. What sound devices would be reminiscent of Whitman’s style to describe these landscapes?Sound devices would be alliteration, consonance, and assonance.
9. Do you think Whitman would sing the praises of technology? Explain. No, because Whitman would see technology as being complex to nature.
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