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Upon what occasions might one still make use of Bartleby’s response, “I prefer not to”?

Does Whitman fulfill his promise that he will show his readers  the origin of poems, and if so, where do you locate this “origin”?
Lecture 2 videos: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/4a9bb590-6c0…

*(The Book you need to answer Part of the questions is Attached down below (PDF))

*(The Discussion Assignment is due tommorrow at 11:59pm ET so start this immediately) 

Peer responses

respond to each of the two students posts and use 150-200 words when responding. Start of by saying (Hello name)
Stefania
1.Post at least one question/point in response to Lecture.  

I have always found Poe interesting, I wonder if he had not experienced great loss would his work have been less dark?  
 
2.Post the most important question you would like to ask about any of the work’s/writers you have read this week.   
 
I would like to have asked Poe where is inspiration came from or  was it a little of mental illness that he embraced to help him with his  work?  
 
3.Upon what occasions might one still make use of Bartleby’s response, “I prefer not to”?   
 
Bartleby’s “I prefer not to”, reminds me of something that I wish I  could say most days. To me it personifies the feeling of having the  power to say no. It was just a nicer way of saying no. The word “prefer”  is very interesting to have been chosen. I think most people would have  said “I don’t want to” or just “no”. I think the power in the statement  comes from the fact that there is a choice. It is saying “I choose not  to”. The occasions that the statement, “I prefer not to”, would be at  any time a person is presented with a situation where they don’t want to  participate in an action.   
 
4.Does Whitman fulfill his promise that he will show his readers  the origin of poems, and if so, where do you locate this “origin”?  
 
I believe that Whitman does fulfill his promise. Even though he  doesn’t straight say “this is the origin”, he instead describes the  origin of poems with every line that is written in “Song of Myself”. The  origin of poems comes from life, our experiences, dreams, heartaches,  from nature, and everything else around us. 
Tamara

1.)  After reviewing Don Melander’s lecture video 2 in this week’s curriculum, one of the questions that comes to mind is:

Why did artists and poets who  practiced the belief systems of “symbolism” “nature” as well as  “transcendentalism” recieve more recognition than “romanticistic”  writers and artist such as William Blake in the 1700 to 1800’s?
2.) One of the most relevant  questions that comes to mind after reviewing week two’s lecture video as  well as the readings involves “transcendentalism” “symbolism’ as well  as “romanticism” Hence:
Why, is humanity still struggling  with the same debates and controversies regarding religious and  scientific practices and/or beleif systems in which have occured for  centuries with no real resolutions up to this point in time? Hence,  think of all the unnecessary wars in which have been fought in the name  religion. 
3.) In reference to Herman  Melvine’s story, “Bartleby, The Scrivener,” and his renowned quote that  states, “I perfer not to,”  one might utilze this term today by  exercising personal boundaries and/or on a more dramatic scale, exercise  their Constitutional Right’s.  In Melvine’s story, Bartleby’s character  uses this four letter term throughput the storyline to politely refuse  to go “above and beyond” what  is required of him in the office.  Therefore, when the word “prefer” is magnified under the looking glass  of the reader, it leaves the suggestion more “open” without an  “absolute” refusal to adhere to his boss’s directives. It is fair to say  that if the average person in today’s society responded to a superior  with Bartleby’s attitude of, “I prefer not to,” they would more than  likely be terminated from further employment within the company.
4.) Is it fair to say that renowned  poet and writer, Walt Whitman was stereotypical on behalf of race?  Hence, as a democratic, white man, the book states that Whitman  justified the Mexican War by, “Peopling the New World with a noble  race.”  Norton Anthology of American Literature (Levine) p 1071 (2017).  Although, Whitman seemed to have delivered his promise that he would  show the readers the orgin of his poems and he di introduce a unique  style of writing in the use of “catalogs” in which were “encyclopedic”  as well as “journalistic” in his “Preface Leaves to Grass” it appears to  me that Whitman clearly delivers the orgin of poems to only one such  race; that of whote descendants.  A brilliant poet was he, yet , perhaps  his idea of the “American Dream”was sadly limmited by the deliverance  of one race. Hence, he writes about “survival of the fittest”  in the  beginning of the preface of, “To leaves of grass,” he adds, “America  does not repel the past or what it has produced….under its forms or  amid politics….or idea of castes or the old religions….accepts the  lessons with calmness….is not soimpatient as has been supposed….that  the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while  the life whihc served its requirements has passed intio the new lifeof  new forms….percieves that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating  and sleeping rooms of the house….percieves that it was a little while  in the door….that it was fittest for days….that its action has  descended to the stalwart and well shaped heir who appraoches….and he  shall be fittest for ddays.” Perhaps Whitman delivered his orgin of  poems in the sense of creativity, however in a very narrow-minded way,  at least in my opinion. Hence, American History was founded on  white-supremacy, sadly. Hwever, Whitman did introduce “free-verse”  and “poetic expression.” 
Response Essay 2

Symbolism
Write a three-paragraph essay,  two pages, APA Format, and use references in response to these two questions about the works you have read this week:
What short story, essay, or poem most inspired you and why did it inspire you?  
If you choose a story by Hawthorne or  Melville or a poem by Poe or Whitman, please be sure to discuss  characters, point of view, and structure; if you choose an essay by  Emerson or Thoreau, be sure to discuss ideas and the extent to which you  agree/disagree with them and why you do so.
Please submit assignment by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. EST
If  an essay is below standard (below a “C”) in terms of content, style,  and punctuation, you will have to rewrite it to receive a grade, so be  sure not to submit first drafts.
Acceptable  essays will graded “B” if they meet the demands of the assignment, “A”  if they both meet the demands of the assignment and teach me something,  and “C” if they are minimally satisfactory.
You  may rewrite C- and B-level essays (except for the final essay), but if  your essays progress in quality, you will earn a final grade based on  improvement rather than an average of all assignments (of course, if you  work is “up and-down,” your final grade will be more of an average  grade)
Pages to help you with assignment and essay
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee,” pp. 731–739, and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” pp. 749–762
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature,” pp.550–582
Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government”  and Walden chapters “Economy” and “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For,”  pp. 900–972.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, pp .651–655,  “Young Goodman Brown,” pp. 668–67, and “The Minister’s Black Veil,” pp. 685–694
Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” pp.1154–1184
Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, pp. 1070–1088, “Song of Myself,” pp. 1088-1133