Read the passage.

"my tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air,
born here of parents born here from parents the same, and
their parents the same …"

in “song of myself” by walt whitman, from what does the speaker say his tongue and blood are formed?

a. from the american soil and air.
b. from the fire of poetry.
c. from the beauty of nature.

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair, and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following demonstrates one of the metaphors and its meaning in the above excerpt? forgetting = a divine gift forgetting = danger remembering = ability to learn remembering = a divine gift

In the poem, collins compares his love to a pigeon on a generals head

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