HELP What would Whitman think about people memorizing his poem and studying it in classes and writing papers about it? Would his ego be flattered, or would he think this wasn't true to the spirit of the poem? Or do you think that he would have a different reaction entirely? Respond in 1-2 detailed and well-thought out paragraphs (5 sentence minimum, per paragraph). Spelling, grammar, punctuation will be part of the assessment grade.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.