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1. B. The poem’s title, along with lines 1 and 17, states that the speaker is sitting.
2. D. The “secret convulsive sobs” (3) described by the speaker indicate tears from the young men.
3. C. The speaker uses the term “misused” in lines 5 and 7 to describe both women; while the mother is misused by her children, the wife is misused by her husband.
4. D. Lines 15-16 describe the oppression of “laborers, the poor, upon negroes, and the like” by “arrogant” people.
5. A. In the poem’s final line, the speaker says he is “silent” (19), yet the poem itself contradicts him. By writing the poem, he does not remain completely silent.
By Walt Whitman
A Glimpse
A Glimpse
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America
America
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A Noiseless Patient Spider
A Noiseless Patient Spider
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Are you the new person drawn toward me?
Are you the new person drawn toward me?
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As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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For You O Democracy
For You O Democracy
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Hours Continuing Long
Hours Continuing Long
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I Hear America Singing
I Hear America Singing
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I Sing the Body Electric
I Sing the Body Electric
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Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass
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O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! My Captain!
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Song of Myself
Song of Myself
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Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
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