Question

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This Dust Was Once the Man This dust was once the man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand, Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, Was saved the Union of these States
Walt Whitman
What is the word just most likely an allusion to?
a. Lincoln's career as a lawyer
b. Lincoln's death at war's end
c. Whitman's war reporting
d. Whitman's poem writing
it's not B or D

Answer 1

I think it is B. It talks about how he came from the dirt which usually means death.

Answer 2

It was representing the Lincoln`s death at the war ends , as her dust was once the man compare with the death at the war.

As he death happened the body became dust and can be buried in the dust only , s dust provide soil and various resource to near by in same the way the death person body can be help to other human beings ,

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