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Who does the narrator think the young man is in Walt Whitman's poem "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim"?A. An enemyB. ChristC. His best friendD. His younger brother

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B. Christ is the answer to this question
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B. Christ

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Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist, considered by many to be the "father of free verse." Paulo Leminski considered him the great poet of the American Revolution, as Maiakovsky was the great poet of the Russian Revolution. In his poem "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim" he compares the face of a young man to the face of Christ, this can be seen in the stanza:

"Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of

beautiful yellow-white ivory;

Young man I think I know you—I think this face is the face

of the Christ himself,

Dead and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies."

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