Question

This is ALL about Walt Whitman's poem "When Lilacs Last in The Dooryard Bloom'd." Best answer gets 10 points!!

Answer 1

Winter, the dead soliders

Answer 2

Answer:

1. The time of the year forever mourn: spring.

2. The "powerful western fallen star" symbolizes: Lincoln.

3. The hermit thrush sings: mournfully. Because it sings with a bleeding throat.

4. Rhetorial device: Allusion. It is an allusion to Lincoln death, and how it affected the country.

5. The speaker offers: sprig of lilacs.

6. The theme of rebirth or new life is carried throughout the poem with images of: spring.

7. In section 14, "after the pertur'b winds and storms" is a reference to : The Civil War.

8. The italicized portion of the poem represents: the poet's eulogy for Lincoln.

9. In section 15, the poet gives a vivid description ofhe thousands of: soldiers who died in the Civil War.

10. He views death as: Soothing

Explanation:

This poem uses the rethorial source of allusion to Lincolns death. The author also creates an eulogy to the president´s death.

He talks about death and the mourn that it brings. He refers to the death of Lincoln and to the death of the soldiers during the Civil War.

He uses the metaphor of the singing hermit trush relating to the mourn of death, but also about the beautiful singing of a bird.

He refers to death as bringing suffering but also uses spring as a metaphor of life after death. Also death brings the end of suffering.