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: You can find answers to all these questions, except #5, in J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings, eds., Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998). : ;) : : : can any one answer any of these question : : 1)Name two structural or stylistic characteristics of "Song of Myself" : : 2) When Lilac Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' mourns the death of what historcial figure? : : What other poem by whitman deals with the same objects? : : 3)What are the three central images in "Lilacs"? : : 4)How does Whitman's view of death in "Lilacs" differ from that in "Song of Myself?" : : 5)List three poems by Whitman not anazlyed in this program. : : 6)Name one other career Whitman pursued during his life. : : 7)How did Whitman's first reviewers recieve his work? : : 8)What kinds of people does Whitman focus on in his poems? : : 9)What famous explorer does Whitman mention in "Page to India," and why does he does he do so? : : 10)How does Whitman's view of himself change from "SOng of Myself" to "Page to India"? : : 11)WHy did some WHitman's later admirers consider him a "modern-day Christ?"

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