Their giggling began to fade when they were taken around the wards.
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C. wear clothing suited to the occasion
Answer: B) He wants to communicate directly with the readers.
Explanation: From the given options, the sentence that best explains why Walt Whitman uses such a simple phrase as "who I am or what I mean" in the given quotation from "Song of Myself" is the corresponding to option B: He wants to communicate directly with the readers, that is why he uses a simple phrase and also he addresses the reader in a direct way by using the pronoun "you."
2.Martin puts his head down and tries to pull his hand away