Read these lines from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself":
depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
What is one purpose of the personification in this poem?
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A. To portray a force of nature as something that runs from humans
B. To give humanlike qualities to sand dunes and the sea
C. To paint a picture in the reader's mind of a decaying body
D. To make a connection between the speaker and the reader

Demonstrating understanding of jem's development one way to demonstrate understanding of character and theme is by writing from the perspective of a character. for this assignment, compose a short poem from the perspective of jem. your poem should detail his feelings about either a. his father, atticus or b. mrs. dubose. the poem must accurately trace the progression of jem's attitudes and beliefs, highlighting the important events and shifts in his perspective detailed above. your writing should also sound like jem, using voice and word choice that reflects the voice and word choice found in the novel. the poem can be a free poem (meaning it does not need to rhyme or follow a particular format). it should be a minimum of twenty-lines in length, have a title, and follow conventional rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation.