"I Sit and Look Out" by Walt Whitman – Flashcards
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In "I Sit and Look Out", what does the speaker sit and look out upon?
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I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame
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In "I Sit and Look Out", what does the speaker hear?
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I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done
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As used in "I Sit and Look Out", what is the best meaning of the word convulsive?
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Intense and uncontrolled
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In "I Sit and Look Out", what does the speaker see in low life?
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I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate
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As used in "I Sit and Look Out", what is the best meaning of the phrase low life?
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The life of the lower classes
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In "I Sit and Look Out", what does the speaker see when looking at the wife?
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I see the wife misused by her husband
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In "I Sit and Look Out", what does the speaker see when looking at young women?
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I see the treacherous seducer of young women
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In "I Sit and Look Out", what does the speaker mark?
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I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid
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As used in "I Sit and Look Out", what is the best meaning of the word ranklings?
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Bitter feelings or resentments
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As used in "I Sit and Look Out", what is the best meaning of the word unrequited?
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Not returned
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In "I Sit and Look Out", where does the speaker see these sights?
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I see these sights on the earth
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In "I Sit and Look Out", who or what does the speaker see the workings of?
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I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny
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In "I Sit and Look Out", what groups of peoples does the speaker see?
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I see martyrs and prisoners
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In "I Sit and Look Out", what does the speaker observe at sea?
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I observe a famine at sea
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In "I Sit and Look Out", where does the speaker observe?
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I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest
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As used in "I Sit and Look Out", what is the best meaning of the phrase casting lots?
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Deciding by means of a random choice of objects (as in drawing straws)
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In "I Sit and Look Out", where does the speaker observe when looking a certain group of people and how they treat others?
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I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like
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In "I Sit and Look Out", what does the speaker concluded of the things they sit and look out upon?
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All these - all the meanness and agony without end I sitting looking upon
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In "I Sit and Look Out", how does the speaker respond to all the meanness and agony without end?
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See, hear, and am silent
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What can be concluded of "I Sit and Look Out"?
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Whitman's poem is a catalog of sorrows and injustices
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According to "I Sit and Look Out", what is depicted with "I Hear..."?
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With "I Hear...," this poem depicts the duality of human existence
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Using examples from "I Sit and Look Out", how does this poem depict the duality of human existence with "I Hear..."?
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With "I Hear...," this poem depicts the duality of human existence: The joy and the sorrow The harmony and the despair The independence and helplessness
