Song of Myself

What is "Song of Myself" mostly about?

• The Industrial Revolution

• Individual's relation to nature

• Grass

• Father/Son relationship

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

Who wrote "Song of Myself?"

• Arthur Miller

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• John Proctor

• Walt Whitman

"Hoping to cease not till death." What does he mean in this line?

• He doesn't want to live a mundane, factory life.

• He doesn't want to die from illness

• He's scared of marriage

• He's getting old

What is "Nature without check?"

• Natural disasters

• Rain, Snow, Sunshine

• Life eventually ending

• Nature untouched by humanity

"They are alive and well somewhere,

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death" What can be inferred about the author's view on death based on these two lines.

• Death is permanent

• Life energy is finite

• Life energy is transferred

• Life is perpetual

"I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise... Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man." What is the author being?

• Paradoxical

• Oxymoronic

• Deep

• Vague

What does the line "I resist any thing better than my own diversity," mean?

• He doesn't like diversity

• He likes to live humbly

• He wants to live with nature

• He knows he will pass away soon

"Not I, not any one else, can travel that road for you,

You must travel it for yourself.

It is not far, it is within reach." What is the word "It," in the third line referring to?

• Happiness

• Sadnes

• Children

• Adventure

"And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill’d and satisfied then?

And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond." What is his spirit saying?

• No, we're just here to watch the future generations

• No, we're here to take from future generations

• No, we're here and gave to future generations

• No, we're here to preserve nature

What does "egress" mean?

• Stay

• Transgress

• Leave

• Happiness