Walt Whitman was an American poet who was born in 1819. Leaves of Grass is one of his most well-known poetry collections. Listen to an excerpt from one of his poems here.

View the excerpt of the poem here.

What did you notice about this poem’s structure as you listened? Check all that apply.

It is a poem with a fixed form.
It does not have a specific rhyme scheme.
It has rhyming quatrains.
It has a free form.
It does not have a set meter.

Walt Whitman was an American poet who was born in 1819. Leaves of Grass is one of his most well-known poetry collections.

Listen to an excerpt from one of his poems here.

View the excerpt of the poem here.

What did you notice about this poem’s structure as you listened? Check all that apply.

It is a poem with a fixed form.
It does not have a specific rhyme scheme.
It has rhyming quatrains.
It has a free form.
It does not have a set meter.

kellan is struggling with the amount of work he has to do

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it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.

what is the sentence?

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.