Question 1 of 20
2 points
read these lines from walt whitman's "song of myself":
the last scud of day holds back for me,
it flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the
shadow'd wilds,
it coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
i depart as air, i shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
i effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
what is one purpose of the simile in this poem?