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1. To spend time idly, to relax aimlessly
4. capable of being bent or folded without creases; easy, fluent, or limber; adaptable.
5. This event plays a transformative, revelatory role in (the poet’s) life, and by extension, in the world as we know it.
8. The incredibly violent conflict within the U.S. from 1861-65.
10. Out of the cradle endlessly___________
11. The title of Whitman’s most famous poem. Initially the only poem in his self-published book.
15. Poetic device Whitman uses repeatedly
16. The child said_______________?

2. This is not a perfume, and yet we seek with the poet to perceive it, to know it, to be in contact with it.
3. Whitman revered this U.S. President and wrote many poems about or including him.
6. The alteration of two musical tones; a warble. Also a verb. Alternatively meaning, to trickle.
7. philosophy wherein physical and spiritual phenomena are part of dynamic processes rather than discrete entities.
9. In the war, Whitman played his own role as a __________.
12. Poems that make lists are also called __________ poems.
13. This type of animal is featured in the poem you read for homework.
14. To be in motion; to move to and fro. Also, to chatter, as in “Tongues ____.