Essay Questions (See related pages) Analysis Essay Quiz 1. Identify Whitman's use of open form, or "free verse." 2. Identify poems from the reading selections that celebrate "American idealism." Evaluation Essay Quiz 3. What might some nineteenth-century readers find objectionable in Whitman's poetry? 4. Explain why no other established form of poetry would be appropriate for Whitman's vision of the American experiment in democracy. Interpretation Essay Quiz 5. Trace the stages through which the voice of Whitman evolves in "Song of Myself." 6. Identify poems from the reading selections that celebrate "American idealism."
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Choose one...Anne Bradstreet 1Benjamin Franklin 2Phillis Wheatley 3Olaudah Equiano 4Edgar Allan Poe 5Nathaniel Hawthorne 6Herman Melville 7Henry David Thoreau 8Frederick Douglass 9Walt Whitman 10Mark Twain 11Emily Dickinson 12Kate Chopin 13Charlotte Perkins Gilman 14Robert Frost 15Ralph Waldo Emerson 16Eugene O'Neill 17T.S. Eliot 18Willa Cather 19E.E. Cummings 20Jean Toomer 21Langston Hughes 22William Faulkner 23James Baldwin 24Tennessee Williams 25Anne Sexton 26Ernest Hemingway 27John Cheever 28Gwendolyn Brooks 29Toni Morrison 30Ezra Pound 31

News, Articles & Links Links Quizzes Multiple Choice Quiz True or False Quiz More Resources About the Author Orientation Key Concepts Texts Online Essay Questions