超星 - 5. W13 Assignment 2

单选题

In Leaves of Grass, _________ is all that concerned Whitman.

A. individualism
B. freedom
C. the spirit of democracy
D. all the above

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单选题

We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman's poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT they are ________.

A. conversational and casual
B. lyrical and well-structured
C. simple and rather crude
D. free-flowing

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单选题

Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __________.

A. blank verse
B. heroic couplet
C. free verse
D. iambic pentameter

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The theme of _________ may be well stated as "It sings of nationalism and of the nature of the self in relation to the cosmos and the meaning and purpose of birth and death."

A. Edgar Allan Poe's To Helen
B. Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken
C. Walt Whitman's Song of Myself
D. Emily Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death

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