Question 30 • **MFISD ENGLISH 3 B 22-23 CR
The speaker calls it the “lost America of love” and imagines strolling with Whitman, suggesting a longing for the America Whitman represents. The blue automobiles and silent cottage are part of the scene, not things the speaker says he wants to own or return to. So he wishes America could be as it was when Whitman was alive.
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