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12. Read this passage from the short poem "Hats" by Carl Sandburg.

On the rim of a skyscraper’s forehead
I looked down and saw: hats: fifty thousand hats:
Swarming with a noise of bees and sheep, cattle and waterfalls,
Stopping with a silence of sea grass, a silence of prairie corn.
Hats: tell me your high hopes.

How does Sandburg develop the symbolic significance of hats in this passage?

A) He makes the hats (and their wearers) seem progressively less significant.
B) He slowly shifts our attention away from hats to the countryside.
C) He makes us ponder the significance of hats as clothing.
D) He first sees them as an unthinking mass but wants to humanize them.

14. How does William Carlos Williams' use of line breaks affect how you read the following lines?

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

A) The line breaks make the white background behind the text less noticeable.
B) The abrupt line breaks slow the reader down.
C) The line breaks alter the meaning of adjectives like "white."
D) The sudden line breaks change the grammar of the sentence.

Answer 1

1. Answer: D) He first sees them as an unthinking mass but wants to humanize them.

In this poem, Sandburg first sees hats merely as objects, as an unthinking mass, which it's clear when he says “I looked down and saw: hats: fifty thousand hats,” but at the end, he tries to see and treat them as humans when he asks them about their high hopes as if they could answer and as if they could have hopes.

2. Answer: B) The abrupt line breaks slow the reader down.

Williams' use of line breaks intends to makes us read the lines in a slow manner, and to forces us to consider a single line and word at a time so that we can fully reflect on the meaning of each word.