Question

(B)."And forever..............................Love returns." 1. How does it give back life to its own origin? 2. Why are the last two lines written in brackets? 3. Name the poetic device used in the poem.

Answer 1

Incomplete question. The excerpt from a poem by Walt Whitman read;

9. "And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own

10. origin, and make pure and beautify it;

11. (For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfillment, wandering,

12. Reck'd or unreck'd. duly with love returns.)"

Step-by-step explanation:

1. The rain gives life to its own origin by completing the water cycle; as it falls down to the ground again nurtures the seedlings and vegetations on the earth.

2. This is just a distinct observation made by the poet which is not part of the song.

3. The main poetic device in the poem is 'personification' and 'extended metaphor'. For example, 'rain' was personified as though it was a real person, and it became an extended metaphor as it was likened to 'poetry' in other to describe the way the earth benefits from rain, and so we the world benefits from poetry.