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Original poem reprinted online here: "A child said, What is the grass?" by Walt Whitman Originally read: June 11, 2013 More information about the Poet: Walt Whitman Rhetorical questions at the beginning of poems make me wonder some times technique wise.  After the question, does the speaker try to answer it, or does the speaker try to further explain the question with the following lines?  The poem does both.  There's an expansion of the scope of the question and the answer which is interplayed with each stanza in which . The first stanza sets up the question from the perspective from a child, "A child said, What is grass" to the speaker who "I do not know what it it is anymore than he."  But then there's the expansion of what it could be, "I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven."  Note that the repeating of this phrase "Or I guess" continues on for the next three stanzas.  To me, the rep...