In Waldron's article, she explains how to read from a perspective of ecocriticism.She writes that an ecocritical reading is "an approach that acknowledges and probesquestions of reading, highlights the evidence of dwelling, notes resource extractionand utilization, foregrounds the roles of imagination and creativity, and includesrepresentation and discussion of various systems, including the ethnic and economic,along with religious and scientific perceptions and values" (xxxi).What would an ecocritical reading of Whitman's repetition in the first two stanzas ofSection 25 be?"Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of day-break." (II. 1-4)Whitman's repetition of "dazzling and tremendous" is a way to compareindividual people (the "we") to the natural phenomenon of the sun. He builds arelationship between the literal sun and the metaphorical "sun" of will and desireto create that people have within them. Likewise, the sun can kill ... just asstifling instincts toward art and beauty can suffocate a person's life.The repetition is a way to say that people should think about the sun as a livingplace, as a place that can cause life and death.The repetition is a critique of the ways people allow free energy to escape whenwe should convert to clean energy, such as solar.The repetition connects to a later repetition of "encompass worlds" and "nevertry to encompass me." The word "encompass" can be exchanged for the phrase"final merit," as they both describe the world that Whitman refuses. Question 1 (5 points)Listen ▶Which of the passages below recursively examines the idea of literary ecology as asa method of studying the interlocking relationships of places and the people who livein them--as well as how places and people each changes the other?"Place focuses awareness of the intersecting and mutually influential systems ofnature as both ourselves and other" (Waldron xxiii)."... the human dramas of this period [19th-century] were grounded in theenvironment, the complex ecology of of the human/nature connection is inplaces and spaces..." (Waldron xvii).... we propose here a complex and literarily produced awareness of how humanbeings interact with, changed, and are changed by place. Such changes occurwith inhabitation, but also with art and story, with imagination andrepresentations ... dwelling inspires and, inevitably, both produces and resultsfrom narratives" (Waldron xxviii)."...what might be called the romantic view of nature, of nature as other andsublime, is still part of the United States' cultural mindset, side by side with theproblematic recognition that we humans belong to and are a phenomenon ofnature" (Waldron xix).Question 2 (5 points) ✓ Saved➡ Listen ▶In this section of his poem, Whitman examines the relationship between speech andsight. In line 17, he writes, "My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from mewhat I really am."What other line from Section 25 best explains what the phrase "final merit" means?What is Whitman refusing?Line 9: "Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?"Line 11: "Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?"Line 18: "Encompass worlds, but never try to encompass me"Line 20: "Writing and talk do not prove me"

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Question 1 (5 points) Listen ▶ Which of the passages below recursively examines the idea of literary ecology as as a method of studying the interlocking relationships of places and the people who live in them--as well as how places and people each changes the other? "Place focuses awareness of the intersecting and mutually influential systems of nature as both ourselves and other" (Waldron xxiii). "... the human dramas of this period [19th-century] were grounded in the environment, the complex ecology of of the human/nature connection is in places and spaces..." (Waldron xvii). " ... we propose here a complex and literarily produced awareness of how human beings interact with, changed, and are changed by place. Such changes occur with inhabitation, but also with art and story, with imagination and representations ... dwelling inspires and, inevitably, both produces and results from narratives" (Waldron xxviii). "...what might be called the romantic view of nature, of nature as other and sublime, is still part of the United States' cultural mindset, side by side with the problematic recognition that we humans belong to and are a phenomenon of nature" (Waldron xix). Question 2 (5 points) ✓ Saved ➡ Listen ▶ In this section of his poem, Whitman examines the relationship between speech and sight. In line 17, he writes, "My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am." What other line from Section 25 best explains what the phrase "final merit" means? What is Whitman refusing? Line 9: "Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?" Line 11: "Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?" Line 18: "Encompass worlds, but never try to encompass me" Line 20: "Writing and talk do not prove me"

Question 1 (5 points) Listen ▶ Which of the passages below recursively examines the idea of literary ecology as as a method of studying the interlocking relationships of places and the people who live in them--as well as how places and people each changes the other? "Place focuses awareness of the intersecting and mutually influential systems of nature as both ourselves and other" (Waldron xxiii). "... the human dramas of this period [19th-century] were grounded in the environment, the complex ecology of of the human/nature connection is in places and spaces..." (Waldron xvii). " ... we propose here a complex and literarily produced awareness of how human beings interact with, changed, and are changed by place. Such changes occur with inhabitation, but also with art and story, with imagination and representations ... dwelling inspires and, inevitably, both produces and results from narratives" (Waldron xxviii). "...what might be called the romantic view of nature, of nature as other and sublime, is still part of the United States' cultural mindset, side by side with the problematic recognition that we humans belong to and are a phenomenon of nature" (Waldron xix). Question 2 (5 points) ✓ Saved ➡ Listen ▶ In this section of his poem, Whitman examines the relationship between speech and sight. In line 17, he writes, "My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am." What other line from Section 25 best explains what the phrase "final merit" means? What is Whitman refusing? Line 9: "Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?" Line 11: "Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?" Line 18: "Encompass worlds, but never try to encompass me" Line 20: "Writing and talk do not prove me"