“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”
(from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”)
Questions:
A．Whom does “myself” refer to?
B．How do you understand the line “I loafe and invite my soul”?
C．What does “a spear of summer grass” indicate?
A.The poet himeelf and the American people
B.This dine indicates a separation of the body and the soul.
C.The phrase indicates Whitman's optimism and experience.
