Read the passage from "song of myself." you shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, you shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self. by making himself the central allusion of the poem, the speaker is able to accuse people of stealing ideas from him. scold people for spending too much time reading. congratulate people for recycling and reusing things. encourage people to be more independent in their thinking.

Explanation:

This passage from "Melody of Myself" presents an imperatively important subject in the poem, in which the speaker encourages his gathering of people to not acknowledge experience that has just been interceded for them, however to go out and to get their very own experience direct.

D) encourage people to be more independent in their thinking.

Explanation: allusion is a literary device that consists in making a brief reference to a person, an event (historical, political, cultural, etc), or a place. In the given passage from "Song of Myself" we can see that the speaker makes an allusion to himself, in the phrase "You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me" this allusion helps the speaker to encourage people to be more independent in their thinking.

it is true my friend

the answer is irony!