 | 1995 - 436 pages
...question in section 6 of Song of Myself. "What is the grass?" The poet-persona answers with a question: "How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he" (99-100). Then the narrator continues with a catalogue of guesses as to what the grass is — "the... | |
 | Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt - 1996 - 292 pages
...itself by associative "guesses" from an analytical, descriptive stance toward reality: A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands, How...flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff wo ven. (11. 1-3) And then launches into the dizzying and audacious metaphors that are the poem's lifeblood:... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - 1996 - 392 pages
...of nature, we believe the following is not surpassed in the range of poetry: "A child said, What is grass! fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child! I do not know any more than he. I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord; A scented gift and remembrancer, designedly... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...elder, mullein and poke-weed. A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; 100 How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt, Bearing... | |
 | Milton Hindus - 1997 - 308 pages
...is due our confidence that we feel its rhythm as the poet intended it to be felt? A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How...child? I do not know what it is any more than he. If we ask half a dozen of our friends to read this aloud to us, we shall probably find that to each... | |
 | Sherry Lee Linkon - 1997 - 202 pages
...rhetorical strategy in a famous passage from "Song of Myself." Section six begins: A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands, How...child? I do not know what it is any more than he. In the lines that follow, the speaker ponders a long series of possible answers to the child's question.... | |
 | Philip A. Verhalen - 1998 - 250 pages
...What is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of...designedly dropt, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corner, that we may see and remark, and say Whose? From "Song of Myself Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Love... | |
 | Philip A. Verhalen - 1998 - 250 pages
...that almost indicates the belonging qualities of life linked to each living thing. A child said, What is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.... | |
 | 李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - 264 pages
...hands; Here question and answer create a rising and falling effect ending in a stop. Whitman continues; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. The same question-and-answer pattern is repeated, with the same rising and falling effect. This is... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1999 - 568 pages
...elder and mullen and pokeweed. A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; 90 How could I answer the child? .... I do not know what...the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?... | |
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A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands, How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. 
