Cadzao Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Mistress
0 "Raise the mighty mother 01 b 00 mistress 02 b 00 , 02 br
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00 Waving high the delicate 01 b 00 mistress 02 b 00 , over all the starry 01 b 00 mistress 02 b 00 , (bend your heads all) 02 br
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00 Raise the fang'd and warlike 01 b 00 mistress 02 b 00 , stern, impassive, weapon'd 01 b 00 mistress 02 b 02 br
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00 Pioneers! O pioneers!" 02 br
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00 Please tell me what Whitman means with "mistress." 02 br
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00 Would you mind giving me the main idea of the stanza? 02 br
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00 Waving high the delicate 01 b 00 mistress 02 b 00 , over all the starry 01 b 00 mistress 02 b 00 , (bend your heads all) 02 br
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00 Raise the fang'd and warlike 01 b 00 mistress 02 b 00 , stern, impassive, weapon'd 01 b 00 mistress 02 b 02 br
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00 Pioneers! O pioneers!" 02 br
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00 Please tell me what Whitman means with "mistress." 02 br
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00 Would you mind giving me the main idea of the stanza? 02 br
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0 I am by no means an expert in the analysis of poetry but I suspect that 01 i 00 mistress 02 i 00 is a metaphor for the U.S. flag, and the flag is a metaphor for the nation and its ideals. 02 br
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00 The main idea is, speaking to the pioneers, "Carry the ideals of the U.S. with you (as you travel west)." 02 br
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00 The main idea is, speaking to the pioneers, "Carry the ideals of the U.S. with you (as you travel west)." 02 br
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