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WorksheetsSong of Myself
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is "Song of Myself" mostly about?
The Industrial Revolution
Individual's relation to nature
Grass
Father/Son relationship
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
"Now I will you to be a bold swimmer," What is swimming an allegory for?
Death
Life
Adulthood
Nature
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." The word "yawp," is an example of what?
Imagery
Personification
onomatopoeia
Allegory
"If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles." Reading this line, the reader can infer that the author has accepted and is satisfied with what?
Life
Nature
Mortality
Future
What is the first section of the poem about? "My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air"
Author explaining how we're all made of the same atoms
The father's relation with his son
The author accepting his mortality
Man celebrating death
What is the second section of the poem mostly about? "Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation."
Author explaining how we're all made of the same atoms
Author explaining what grass is to a child
Author accepting his mortality
The father's relation with his son
What is the third section of the poem about? "A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye"
Author explaining how we're all made of the same atoms
Author explaining what grass is to a child
Author accepting his mortality
Author encompassing everyone in the United States in his poem
What is section 4 mostly about? "Now I will you to be a bold swimmer."
Author explaining how we're all made of the same atoms
Author explaining what grass is to a child
Author accepting his mortality
The father's relation with his son
Section 5 is mostly about? "But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood."
Author explaining how we're all made of the same atoms
Author explaining what grass is to a child
Author accepting his mortality
The father's relation with his son
