: “I” the subject in the poem, “you” the reader? Invites us to participate in the process of sympathetic identification.РStyle: free verseРImportant Features in Whitman’s PoemsРNo fixed rhyme and scheme?A looser and open-ended syntactical structure ?The habit of using snapshots(快照)?Use of conversational image ?Strong tendency to use oral English?Vocabulary- powerful, colorful, rarely-used words of foreign origin, wrong words?Sentences- different lengths, disturbed, separateРRhyme?a rhythm of thought ?cadences of his feeling?Parallelism ? To repeat the idea in the lines with minor changes in wording (the line is the rhythmical unit)Рic recurrence? Repetition of the first words and phrasesРworksРLeaves of Grass? Songs of Myself ? There was a Child Went forth? I hear America sining? Drum Taps
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