Yes, colony is a collective noun.
Question 7:
The heroe in this poem is the narrator.This person has a duty to a nation he loves and belongs to.It is not any grass the narrator is describing, it is the grass merged with the land this person inhabits.The air he breathes is special, it is shared by men who were intrepid and settled in those lands so far away from what was known as the civilized world.He is ready to be the father to many generations who will , in the future, populate those lands.
Question 8:
Free verse was considered an innovation in those days.Whitman does not make use of the metrical tradition.He uses syntactic parallelism as in ..."These are really the thoughts..".."they are not original..."if they are not yours.."
Question 9
The second option summarizes his point of view of society.
In the poem there is a line that could explain this idea.."My tongue,every atom of my blood,
form´d from this soil,this air.."
Through these lines we could see that it is the land we inhabit that makes us no different from the others.Being a constituent of a nation, having the same tongue to speak is what in the end makes as much the same.We belong to a society with a history, the same history of our forebearers.
Answer:
Glinda - the good witch is like a mother to her, caring for her along the way. Guiding her but allowing her to make decisions on her own and to learn from her own mistakes.
Tin-Man - He had a very big heart even though he really never had literal heart. He was good and compassionate and had been this way all along, but he never could realize his potential to love.
Lion - He was afraid, just like Dorothy was afraid. She encouraged him to have courage - and at the same time, she encouraged herself.
Scarecrow - he was good and kind and knew that he did not want to spend his life scaring people. He wanted to have friends and to be loving to others. D helped him realize his potential of being kind and good and loving along the way and she learned her own ability to love and to be loved.
You have to remember that these "people" were searching for something all along the way and in reality they had these special characteristics all along. You could assume that they had to go through turmoil and hard times to literally see the good - but, they had the ability all along to love, be smart, and to not be afraid.
It is also cool to note that the wizard was really not a wizard in his own eyes. He also felt that he could not measure up to what was expected of him. He had this idea that he had to be great, powerful, scary, and rule with an iron hand. He did not. He realized that he could help others by just being himself and being good.
There is good in everyone :) We just have to find it.
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