Identify the two previous titles of the poem “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” as Walt Whitman continued to revise it until it reached the present form in the “Sea-Drift” section of the 1881 edition.
A) “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night”
B) “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
C) “A Child’s Reminiscence”
D) “The Wound-Dresser”
E) “A Word Out of the Sea”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

The correct answer is C and E (which corresponds to the options “A Child’s Reminiscence” and “A Word Out of the Sea��).

Walt Whitman’s famous lyric poem, which is now known as “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,” underwent several revisions and title changes before arriving at its final version in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass under the “Sea-Drift” section.
Here is the chronological evolution of the poem’s title:

1. “A Child’s Reminiscence” (1859): The poem was first published on December 24, 1859, in the New York Saturday Press under this title.
2. “A Word Out of the Sea” (1860): In the 1860 (third) edition of Leaves of Grass, Whitman renamed the poem to “A Word Out of the Sea.”
3. “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (1871 onwards): Whitman changed the title to its current form in the 1871 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was later placed in the “Sea-Drift” cluster in the 1881 edition.

Therefore, the two previous titles are indeed C and E.