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Instructions:Select the correct answer. In this line from Walt Whitman's poem "Song of Myself," what is the meaning of the word leavings? And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths

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the answer would be legacy
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Answer:

In this line from Walt Whitman's poem Song of Myself, the meaning of the word leavings is inheritance/legacy.

Step-by-step explanation:

The speaker expresses what he feels about the life of the other person; he feels his/her life is a consequence of many deaths, that maybe the way of living and the characteristics of that life are what they are because of that deaths, what those deaths left him/her. His/her inheritance/legacy made of his/her life what it is.

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