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Cadzao Posted 19 years ago
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Mistress

0"Raise the mighty mother 01b00mistress02b00,02br
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00Waving high the delicate 01b00mistress02b00, over all the starry 01b00mistress02b00, (bend your heads all)02br
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00Raise the fang'd and warlike 01b00mistress02b00, stern, impassive, weapon'd 01b00mistress02b02br
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00Pioneers! O pioneers!"02br
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00Please tell me what Whitman means with "mistress." 02br
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00Would you mind giving me the main idea of the stanza?02br
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0 I am by no means an expert in the analysis of poetry but I suspect that 01i00mistress02i00 is a metaphor for the U.S. flag, and the flag is a metaphor for the nation and its ideals.02br
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00 The main idea is, speaking to the pioneers, "Carry the ideals of the U.S. with you (as you travel west)."02br
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