Monday, 13 April 2026

HW for April 15: Laily Long Soldier, poem 38, pp. 49-53

Choose one or mor 

1. Is this a poem? What to make of the first line: "Here, the sentence will be respected?"

2. Relate the poem to the book cover below


3. If you have studied Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass, can you establish any connection between the ending of "38" and these lines from section 52 of Whitman's poem? 

“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love.

If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles” (1338-39).

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