It is false that the connotations of a word have little effect on its literal meaning. Connotation are your personal feelings that a certain word evokes when you think about it/read it/write it.
For example, the word home means a house, but its connotation is usually positive - you connect it with love, warmth, etc.
Answer:
Here is the best I can do.
Explanation: It means to be lazy or existing aimlessly with a sinister intent. However, it could be used as a loaf of bread in a sentence. In the stanza, the poet has used the line "I loafe and invite my soul," shows that the poet is relaxing and trying to spend some spiritual time
The participle in this sentence is "sweating". It's a participle of the verb " to sweat" and it's a present participle: which we know because it ends with an -ing (past participles end with "-ed).
