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I Saw in Louisinan a Live-OakGrowing
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I Saw in Louisinan a Live-OakGrowing

Walt Whitman

Questions for 1.Understanding & Analysis;  2. Application & Wild Association
 
   
In his poems Whitman often presents a speaker who is reflected or mirrored in another living object.  In this poem how does the oak tree mirror the speaker?

In what ways is the speaker similar to the tree? 

How is he different from the oak tree? 

How do we find out the symbolic meanings of the oak tree?  

  • What is the main idea that Whitman expresses in this poem?
  • Why has the speaker in line 6 "broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss"?     How does this relate to the main idea?
 
   

(External Links)Whitman, Modern American Poetry, Study Questions, "I Saw in Louisinan a Live-OakGrowing," Introduction to Literature 98': Poetry I: Family Relationships

   
 
   
     
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