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Cadzao Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Walt Whitman

0Would you please take time to help me with the following?02br
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00"Do the feaster gluttonous feast?02br
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00Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?02br
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00Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,02br
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00Pioneers! O pioneers!"02br
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01b01u00Please tell me what Whitman mean with the stanza.02u02b02br
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00"Has the night descended?02br
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00Was the road of late so toilsome? Did we stop discouraged nodding on our way?02br
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00Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,02br
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00Pioneers! O pioneers!"02br
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01b01u00What does the poet mean with "Did we stop discouraged nodding on our way?" and with "Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious?"02u02b02br
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003. Whitman wrote:02br
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00"YEARS OF THE MODERN02br
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00YEARS of the modern! years of the unperform'd! 02br
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00Your horizon rises--I see it parting away for more august dramas, 02br
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00I see not America only--I see not only Liberty's nation, but other nations preparing, 02br
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00I see tremendous entrances and exits-01del00I see new combinations02del00-I see the solidarity of races,02br
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00I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage,02br
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00...."02br
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01u01b00What does he mean with "Years of the Modern" and " years of the unperformed?"02b02u02br
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00Thank you so much in advance.02br
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0 Whitman is very difficult, even for native speakers. It's clear that you're stuggling with every line of this difficult poetry. I can't blame you.

— CalifJim

  • 0 Whitman is very difficult, even for native speakers.
  • It's clear that you're stuggling with every line of this difficult poetry.
  • I can't blame you.
  • I would be, too.
  • 02i 00OK?
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0 Whitman is very difficult, even for native speakers. It's clear that you're stuggling with every line of this difficult poetry. I can't blame you. I would be, too. You might try using Google to find some expert analysis of these lines.02br
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02. Very approximately: 02br
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01font00Imagine pioneers close to a fire in a camp, on their way to the Great West. 02br
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0Maybe for the first question:02br
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001. "Do the feasters gluttonous feast?/Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?/Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,/Pioneers! O pioneers!"02br
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00"These people are eating too much, and getting fat, and then lying in sloth and sleep. They lock themselves inside t
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0Thank you CaliJim for correcting me 05000 I greatly appreciate your helpful correction.010id2
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0Thank you so much, Marius Hancu and MrPedantic, for your valuable help.02br
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00Would you please think about the question 3 ("Years of the perform'd" and "Years of the modern") and help me to understand what the poet means by these?02br
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00"YEARS OF THE MODERN02br
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00YEARS of the modern! years of the unperform'd!02br
01font00Whitman invokes the future and everything hidden (unperformed) in it02font02br
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00Your horizon rises--I see it parting away for more august dramas,02br
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0Thank you very much, Marius Hancu.02br
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00Best wishes,02br
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What does it meAns by walt whitman according to his poem titled modern?
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What does it meAns by walt whitman according to his poem titled modern?
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