Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" begins lazily: "I loafe and invite my soul, / I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass" (lines 4–5). Discuss the power of leisureliness in this poem. How are the long lines and rhythms contributing to a sense of being at ease? How do patience and restfulness look in comparison with the obvious ambitions of the poem?

In "Song of Myself" written by Walt Whitman it presents a slow, but pleasant and cozy rhythm, the author uses long lines that establish a complete thought and promote a simple interpretation, which does not require much effort from the reader to understand it. The configuration of the lines and the establishment of the rhythm of this poem, together with the words that compose it, allows the reader to savor a feeling of physical and mental relaxation, as if he were in an activity that provides leisure and rest and not a storm of emotions. and reflections, as poems can do.

The rhythm and long lines allow the reader to read the poem patiently, promoting the same rest and relaxation that the speaker of the poem seems to be having, without unpredictability and without furor in the soul.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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