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1. What is the poem, Europe, The 72d and 73d Years of These States, about?
2. In A Hand Mirror, Whitman describes a person’s exterior as a “fair costume,” but what is the inside of the person like?
3. Describe the audience’s response to the astronomer’s lecture in When I Heard the Learn ’d Astronomer.
4. How does the speaker react to the astronomer’s lecture?
5. Explain the question Whitman asks himself in O Me! O Life!
6. The “sorrows of the world” listed in I Sit and...
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