2. Personification: Attaching human traits to inanimate objects. An example would be “..I was offering to feed my soul..” (Whitman, pg 95) This is a personification because Whitman is giving the human trait of eating to his soul which does not eat. 

3. Anastrophe: This device is where in the sentence the order of the noun and adjective are exchanged. The example in the poem would be “...tongues aromatic..” (Whitman, pg 95). Typically it would be aromatic tongues because the writer usually puts the adjective in front of the noun to describe it. 

4. Amplification: Is when a writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information than needed to make the information worth more. An example would be “..this delicious Ninth-month, in my forty-first year..” (Whitman, pg 95). This sentence gives the ninth month of his forty-first year, saying that he is forty-one, he is embellishing by adding that he is ninth months into his forty-first year.

5. Connotation: This is the associations that people make with words that go beyond the literal meaning. An example would be “..athletic love..” (Whitman, pg 95). In the poem it probably refers to strong, physical love. 

6. Hyperbaton: The author plays with the regular positioning of words or phrases and creates a differently structured sentence. The example in the poem would be, “..I proceed, for all who are, or have been, young men..” (Whitman, pg 95) The more grammatical way to have the sentence would be, “ I proceed for young men, for who are or have been.”

WE two—how long we were fool'd!

Now transmuted, we swiftly escape, as Nature escapes;

We are Nature—long have we been absent, but now 

we return; 

We become plants, leaves, foliage, roots, bark;

We are bedded in the ground—we are rocks;

We are oaks—we grow in the openings side by side;

We browse—we are two among the wild herds, spon-

taneous as any; 

We are two fishes swimming in the sea together;

We are what the locust blossoms are—we drop scent 

around the lanes, mornings and evenings; 

We are also the coarse smut of beats, vegetables, 

minerals; 

We are two predatory hawks—we soar above, and look 

down; 

We are two resplendent suns—we it is who balance 

ourselves, orbic and stellar—we are as two 

comets; 

We prowl fang'd and four-footed in the woods—we 

spring on prey; 

We are two clouds, forenoons and afternoons, driving 

overhead; 

We are seas mingling—we are two of those cheerful 

waves, rolling over each other, and interwetting 

each other; 

We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, 

pervious, impervious; 

We are snow, rain, cold, darkness—we are each pro-

duct and influence of the globe; 

We have circled and circled till we have arrived home 

again—we two have; 

We have voided all but freedom, and all but our own 

joy.