Contemporary Voices and Informational Text — Test Answers

Read the passage from "Song of Myself." You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self. By making himself the central allusion of the poem, the speaker is able to

Read the passage from "Song of Myself.” I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.