Read the third stanza of "Song of Myself." My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air, Born here of pare
nts born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Which statement best describes the effect of the language in this stanza? It evokes a sense of suspense as to what will happen next. It is calm and quiet, suggesting that the speaker is thoughtful. It establishes that the speaker of the poem will be frank and honest. It is aggressive and suggests that the speaker has overly strong opinions.
When we say narrative structure, this means that it is narrating something that happened in a sequence of events. ... The way in which James Baldwin used a narrative structure is in the essay that tells a story about the narrators relationship with his father.
