What is the purpose of this passage

How do you think langley employees reconcile the difference between the work they do that is innovative and advances humankind with the work they do that destroys it?

American history (is, are) studying the american colonies.

You seal resign myself to you also i guess what you mean, i behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers, i believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me, we must have a turn together, i undress, hurry me out of sight of the land, cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse, dash me with amorous wet, i can repay you. in this excerpt from "song of myself," which literary device does whitman use to address the sea? alliteration allusion apostrophe onomatopoeia