Hi Everyone,

Click here for the  excerpt from Whitman. Please print this out, read it, and annotate it as you see fit. Then, write a response to this prompt (and bring your response to class):

Whitman does not concretely answer the child’s question “What is the grass?” but instead responds to the child with a series of educated guesses (“I guess it must be…I guess it is…it seems to me” and so on). Why do you think he choses to provide guesses instead of final answers?

We’ll meet in class at the usual time on Wednesday. We’ll talk for a few minutes and then walk to the park to discuss the poem in small groups (while we are sitting on grass-the only way to read this poem).

Finally, it is becoming increasingly clear to me that it might be best if the whole class does their presentations next Wednesday. Then we simply wouldn’t have to meet on Thursday (the final exam period). This means that we’ll have to add about 15 minutes of class time on Wednesday. Let’s discuss this option in class on Wednesday to make sure everyone can come a little bit early and stay a little bit late. See you then!