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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).
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: 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?"