The speaker in the excerpt from “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman is a narrator. The poem describes various workers and their songs, reflecting on the spirit of American labor.
Read the excerpt.
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work . . .
Who is speaking in the excerpt from “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman?
a mason
a carpenter
a narrator
a supervisor
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