Answer:
1. The speaker is in a contemplative mood.
2. The word 'turn' in this context means being born into the fold of animals instead of humans. It is a sort of reincarnation.
3. The speaker wishes to live with animals because they are calm, not easily upset, and contented.
4. Alliteration was employed in the words- long and long.
Explanation:
1. The poet Walt Whitman was likely contemplating or thinking to himself of all the attributes of animals which made them pleasing to him.
2. As a human, if he was to turn and live with animals, that would mean no longer being born as a human but rather being born into the fold of animals.
3. The speaker wishes to live with the animals because they are 'placid and self contain'd' which means that they are calm and not easily upset. They are also contented and do not drag each other for worldly possessions.
4. Alliteration is the repetition of the first letters or sounds of a string of words in a phrase. The letter repeated by the speaker is 'l'.
For some people, good relationships depends on having clear boundaries.
Answer:
1. stanza: group of lines in a poem
2. vernacular: common or everyday language
3. trochee: two syllable meter with the accent on the second syllable
4. meter: beat or rhythm of poetry
5. iamb: two syllable meter with the accent on the first syllable
Explanation:
1. stanza: a group of lines in a poem
A stanza is known to be part of a poem, often in two or more lines. It is normally depicted with a separate spacing from other stanza or indented. It may contain metrical lengths and regular rhymes
2. vernacular: common or everyday language.
Vernacular is a local variation of the standard language. It is spoken without following the standard rule of a language. It can be termed as a dialect.
3. trochee: two-syllable meter with the accent on the second syllable
This is a two-syllable foot that starts with a long syllable and is followed by a short syllable.
4. meter: beat or rhythm of poetry
This is considered as the fundamental of a rhythmic structure of a line. It is utilized in a poem. A line of meter contains five iambs in a pattern of long or short syllables.
5. iamb: two-syllable meter with the accent on the first syllable
This contains two syllables which start with a short syllable and them followed by a long syllable.
Answer:
Freezing or solidification
Explanation:
It's a phase transition in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered to or below its freezing point.