AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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An edgy platform
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Other side
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A pointed, projected part of something
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An adumbration
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Detailed explanation-1: -Whitman continues the metaphor of seeing grass as the rebirth of the dead into the cyclical nature of life. He makes this a hopeful message by saying that death is actually “luckier” than life.
Detailed explanation-2: -The basic theme of the poem is the relationship between suffering and art. It shows how a boy matures into a poet through his experience of love and death. Art is a sublimation of frustrations and death is a release from the stress and strains caused by such frustrations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, poem by Walt Whitman, first published as “A Word out of the Sea” in the 1860 edition of his collection Leaves of Grass and later published in the 1871 version with the final title.
Detailed explanation-4: -Whitman’s universal purpose of nature is to connect not only the human living self but the dead as well. He achieves this by giving the dead a purpose and explaining how they help nature. For example, one of the lines in the poem is “And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves” (line 101).