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Whitman's Song of Myself: Free Verse and the Democratic Catalog — Homework
Reread the assigned "Song of Myself" excerpt before answering.
- 1.Define free verse and explain how it differs from blank verse.
- 2.Explain how Whitman's catalog technique makes a democratic argument through form, not just content.
- 3.What does "I am large, I contain multitudes" suggest about the poem's speaker?
- 4.Write four to six lines of your own free-verse catalog, listing a range of people or scenes from your own daily life with equal weight given to each.
- 5.In five or more sentences, explain why abandoning fixed meter and rhyme was a radical choice for its time.
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