What important theme of realism is reflected in these lines from “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman? And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the
white roses sweet-scented and growing,
I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish'd breasts of melons.

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?

Lens quotation: "character is what you are in the dark." -dwight lyman moody

What should you do when refining and polishing a thesis statement? ?