What is the Grass?

1) What is the literary figure used by the speaker along the poem?

2) What does the speaker mean when saying that the grass is “the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners that wemay see and remark, and say Whose?

3) Why do you think the speaker stated that the grass is like a child?

4) What do you think is the main idea presented in the verse “I give them the same, I receive the same.” regarding human relationships and the way they should treat each other?

5) What relationship do you find with transcendentalism in the poem “What is the grass”?

6) How does Whitman express the beauty of individualism in his poem?

7) How is death presented in the poem according to the voice? and what context does it refer to?

8) What relationship do you find between the grass and human life?