Read the quotation from "song of myself."

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.

how do the words “effuse” and “drift” affect the tone of the second line?

a - they give the line a distanced tone.

b - they create a mood of mystery in the line.

c - they make it difficult to comprehend the line’s meaning.

d - they give the actions described a feeling of importance.

D) They give the actions described a feeling of importance.

Explanation: The tone of a poem, a story, or a text in general, is the author's attitude toward the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different types of tones: negative, positive, happy, sad, angry, etc. In the given quotation from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman, we can see that the words "effuse" and "drift" affect the tone of the line by giving the described actions a feeling of importance.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

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