I dont know but im going to comment here anyway sorry
To shirk means to avoid doing something.
So, if there are any choices, I'd choose that someone would be tempted to shirk a difficult task, or something you just don't feel like doing.
Well, there are some simple but very deep lines written by Hughes which pose as an allusion to the Whitman's poem, and the way readers can recognize it during acquaintance with these authors is being hidden inthe very first<span> line of the poem (“I, too, sing America”) which is commonly known as a direct response to Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing.”
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