Whitman's Free Verse and Epic Poetry

Which element contributes most to Whitman’s poetry of free verse?

What can you conclude about Whitman’s epic poetry from these lines from “Song of Myself”
I celebrate myself, and sing myself/And what I assume you shall,/ For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Which elements of free verse are found in this passage from “Song of Myself”?
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,/ Hoping to cease no till death.

I. Irregular meter
II. Exact rhyme
III. Natural speech cadence
IV. Irregular line length

Which element of Whitman’s epic style is best represented in this passage from “Song of Myself”
The sharp-hoof’d moose of the north, the cat on the house-sill, the chickadee, the prairie dog,/The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,/The brood of the turkey hen and she with her half-spread wings,/ I see in them and myself the same old law.

How would you adjust your reading rate when reading these lines from” When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”?
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,/When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide and measure them,/When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room

Why does the poet leave the lecture in” When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”?

Based on “I Hear America Singing,” how does Whitman seem to feel toward the people in the poem?

In which sentence is the meaning of the word effuse expressed?

What does the speaker in” Song of Myself” mean when he says he holds” creeds and schools in abeyance”?

When Whitman states, in the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, that “The united States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” he supports his opinion by citing

Based on the following passage from the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, what can you infer about Whitman’s attitude toward the past?
America does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions…accepts the lesson with calmness…is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms.

What element makes Whitman’s poem” Song of Myself” epic poetry?

How would you adjust your reading rate to help you when reading the following lines from” Song of Myself”?
My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air,/Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, /I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,/Hoping to cease not till death.

Which element of Whitman’s epic style is represented in the phrase” barbaric yawp” in” Song of Myself”?

Based on the details in “Song of Myself” and ” I Hear America Singing,” what can you infer about Whitman’s attitude toward other people?

“The singing” the speaker hears in ” I Hear American Singing” is

Why would you read slowly when reading these lines from “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”?
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,/When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide and measure them,/When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room…

Free verse is especially suited to ” A Noise less Patient Spider” because it reflects

From the details in ” A Noiseless Patient Spider,” you can infer that Whitman admire the spider for its ability to

Which of these was not a prime reason why Whitman chose to write in free verse?