Whitman’s poetry “democratic”

Page number 1- For each question below, compose a short answer (approximately 200-300 words), using examples from the primary text(s) for support.
1) How is Whitman’s poetry “democratic”?
2) What is Dickinson’s view of death?
3) What does the point of view in Huck Finn say about America?
4) How does James use setting to communicate his ideas about the American identity?

Page number 2- For each question below, compose a short answer (approximately 200-300 words), using examples from the primary text(s) for support.
1) Justify Edna’s final decision in The Awakening.
2) What is meant by “Roman Fever?” How does it influence Alida and Grace?
3) Comment on the effect of the identification of characters by their occupation in “The Open Boat.”
4) Theodore Dreiser is known to be one of America’s foremost naturalist writers, and the
element of determinism is essential to any naturalist fiction. What is/are the determinist element(s) in Sister Carrie and how does it/do they affect the characters

and the situations that unfold?
5) Identify and discuss what you believe to be the central symbol in “To Build a Fire.”

Page number 3-For each question below, compose a short answer (approximately 200-300 words), using examples from the primary text(s) for support.
1) Discuss the effect of place in “The Sculptor’s Funeral.”
2) Despite the regional (New England) origin of Frost’s material, account for his universal appeal. For example, you might consider the selection and use of tree

varieties in a number of his poems.
3) What does Anderson have to say about small town America?
4) How is the title of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ironic?
5) Compare/contrast gender relationships Millay’s poems
6) Explain the effect of cummings’ manipulation of the rules of grammar on the reader.