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Walt WhitmanI Sit and Look Out
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Reading Comprehension Answers
1. B. The poem’s title, along with lines 1 and 17, states that the speaker is sitting.
2. D. The “secret convulsive sobs” (3) described by the speaker indicate tears from the young men.
3. C. The speaker uses the term “misused” in lines 5 and 7 to describe both women; while the mother is misused by her children, the wife is misused by her husband.
4. D. Lines 15-16 describe the oppression of “laborers, the poor, upon negroes, and the like” by “arrogant” people.
5. A. In the poem’s final line, the speaker says he is “silent” (19), yet the poem itself contradicts him. By writing the poem, he does not remain completely silent.
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