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3. To spend time idly, to relax aimlessly
4. is the grass The child said_______________?
5. Poetic device Whitman uses repeatedly
7. In the war, Whitman played his own role as a __________.
12. philosophy wherein physical and spiritual phenomena are part of dynamic processes rather than discrete entities.
14. The title of Whitman’s most famous poem. Initially the only poem in his self-published book.

1. The incredibly violent conflict within the U.S. from 1861-65.
2. This event plays a transformative, revelatory role in the young boy’s life, and by extension, in the world as we know it.
4. To be in motion; to move to and fro. Also, to chatter, as in “Tongues ____.
6. This is not a perfume, and yet we seek with the poet to perceive it, to know it, to be in contact with it.
8. capable of being bent or folded without creases; easy, fluent, or limber; adaptable.
9. Poems that make lists are also called __________ poems.
10. Whitman revered this U.S. President and wrote many poems about or including him.
11. The alteration of two musical tones; a warble. Also a verb. Alternatively meaning, to trickle.
13. Out of the cradle endlessly___________
15. This type of animal is featured in the poem you read for homework.