Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Angelo de Hoyos

P404-420

Directions: Answer each question with a complete sentence. Incorporate the question in with the answer.

“Leaves of Grass”:

1. What is the meaning of Whitman’s notion that the United States “is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations”?
2. What parallels can you draw between Whitman’s ideas about the United States and those expressed by Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur in Letters From an American Farmer?

“ I Hear America Singing:”

3. How does this poem reflect the unit theme of the American Dream?

4. What might be the American Dream for Walt Whitman?

“I, Too” and “To Walt Whitman”:

5. To what or to whom does the first line of “I, Too” allude?
6. What is the significance of the actions the speaker names in lines 5-7?
7. What is the attitude of the speaker in “To Walt Whitman”?
8. How do the poems, “I, Too,” and “To Walt Whitman” address the unit theme of the American Dream?