Leaves of Grass quiz and flashcards

What does the Phantom challenge the speaker to accept as poetry’s only lasting subject?

Whose distinct songs make up the nation in I Hear America Singing?

What does the speaker question after reading a famous biography?

In I Sing the Body Electric, what difficult setting becomes part of the celebration of physical life?

What relieves the speaker’s doubts in Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances?

What puzzles the speaker about the solitary live oak?

Whom does the speaker address across centuries in Full of Life Now?

What should the American exhibition honor in Book 13?

What awakens the speaker’s sense of being a poet in Book 19?

How does the father comfort the child in On the Beach at Night?

What happens in Manhattan after news arrives from the South in Book 21?

What interrupts the calm of Pete’s family farm?

What does the old man chiefly recall in The Wound Dresser?

What does the speaker do after recognizing the dead enemy’s equal divinity in Reconciliation?

What does the hidden thrush offer in Book 22?

How does the child’s identity develop in There Was a Child Who Went Forth?

What changes the speaker’s fear of contaminated ground in This Compost?

How does the speaker address the prostitute in To a Common Prostitute?

What do engineering and exploration become in Book 26?

What does the spider’s activity suggest about the soul?

How does Book 31 present America?

Who gathers around the speaker in Ashes of Soldiers?

What does the speaker ask people to build in To Those Who’ve Failed?

What matters more than the winning candidate in Election Day, November 1884?

What does the speaker reject as Washington’s true memorial?

What does the rain describe in The Voice of the Rain?

What change marks While Not Forgetting the Past?

How does the speaker respond when Nature and the Soul both claim the mature poet?

What purpose does the speaker name in L. Of G.’S Purpose?

What does the speaker insist in The Unexpressed?