67 Matching Annotations
  1. Aug 2025
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    1. finger-points look through like rosy blooms

      In this sentence, other than the life that her finger give, the author could also be referencing the gentleness of her touch, the colors of the mentioned fingers.

    2. But, look, the flowers you nearly broughtHave lasted all this while.

      the intentions of buying her flowers has left more of an impact other than the flower themselves. This painful feeling stays with her because this man had potential but did not live up to his promises.

    3. But for the lovers, their armsRound the griefs of the ages,Who pay no praise or wagesNor heed my craft or art.

      He writes for ordinary lovers who have real experience and just randomly stumble upon his work. He does not want to write for people who are fully immersed in his work because it is beautiful, he wants someone to have lived it.

    4. I labour by singing lightNot for ambition or breadOr the strut and trade of charmsOn the ivory stagesBut for the common wagesOf their most secret hear

      the author writes for people like himself. Ordinary people with shared experiences, capturing feelings we wish we could explain. He is not interested in a reward.

    5. This close-companioned inarticulate hourWhen twofold silence was the song of love.

      Even in just an hour of silence with his lover, he feels like they perfectly understand each other and this woman brings him ultimate peace.

    6. Your hands lie open in the long, fresh grass,—The finger-points look through like rosy blooms:Your eyes smile peace.

      This is a private and intimate moment between the two lovers in the poem. Her fingers being compared to "rosy blooms" shows that even in the long grass, she stands out. He describes her hands in a romantic way to symbolize that she has hands that give love.

  7. Mar 2024
    1. 6:15 "born this way" versus "soziales konstrukt" ... nature versus nurture.<br /> siehe auch: calhoun experiments on overpopulation, universe 25, 1958<br /> bei übervölkerung sieht man in städten (in zentren) "dekadenz" und "sittenverfall" ...<br /> also aggression, homosexualität, kaputte familien (mütter lassen ihre kinder verhungern), ...<br /> und am rand der städte sieht man "the beautiful ones" (aussteiger, einsiedler, einzelgänger)<br /> die komplett alleine bleiben, und den ganzen tag ihr fell pflegen.<br /> (die beautiful ones sind die führer, avantgarde, pioniere, ... die einen neuen lebensraum suchen wollen,<br /> aber die am rand vom mauskäfig blockiert werden)

  8. Dec 2023
    1. Will artificial intelligence create useless class of people? - Yuval Noah Harari

      1:00 "bring the latest findings of science of the public", otherwise the public space "gets filled with conspiracy theories and fake news and whatever".<br /> he fails to mention that ALL his beautiful "scientists" are financially dependent on corporations, who dictate the expected results, and who sabotage "unwanted research".<br /> for example, the pharma industry will NEVER pay money for research of natural cancer cures, or "alternative" covid cures like ivermectin / zinc / vitamin C, because these cures have no patent, so there is no profit motive, and also because the "militant pacifists" want to fix overpopulation this way.<br /> a "scientist" should be someone, who has all freedom to propose hypotheses, which then are tested in experiments (peer review), and compared to real placebo control groups. because that is science, or "the scientific method". everything else is lobbying for "shekel shekel".

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    1. This living hand, now warm and capable

      I feel as if it makes sense that "living hand" is associated with "now warm and capable." I feel as if this means that his life which was once filled with dread and possibly bloodshead was replaced with a persona capable of helping others.

    2. would, if it were cold

      This seems like some type of analogy as if the poet were imagining that they are dead and unable to move their hand. The reasoning is not revealed as to why this might be, but I think that the author is offering a perspective as if they were no longer existing.

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    1. At six months’ end she parted hence With safety of her innocence;

      I enjoyed this characterization of death as it fit in well with the mode and genre of the poem. Even though it is talking about the death of a child, these two lines exude warmth and happiness.

    1. twilight of such day

      It seems eerie and yet lovely that the poet would say that the beloved sees him as the twilight of such a brutal day. When the sun's light fades away and the darkness creeps in. While most fantasize about love, the poet grabs the bull by its horns.

  16. Nov 2020
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    1. yet when I thought of my beloved Elizabeth, of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes,

      It's interesting to me that Victor only cries when thinking of how upset Elizabeth is going to be when he's the one who's going to die. He fits the whole "man be rational and women emotional" cultural phenomenon of the time to a tee. He's stone faced going into losing battle, but Elizabeth will be just soooooooooo sad and sooooooooo sorrowful. While I'm on the topic, the characterization of Elizabeth TOTALLY fits in while the "passive wife who's in charge of the emotional side of family," to a point where Mary Shelley is a satirist. Also the use of barbarous to describe the Creature is just textbook Othering in the way that demotes the Creature to a irrational and animalistic creature.

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    1. or you know very well that true Joy is a sedate and solid thing, a tranquility of mind, not a boisterous and empty flash:

      That's pretty beautifully worded. A good life philosophy for anyone, I'd wager. True joy isn't found in the parties or the get-togethers, but in the little things, such as reading, walking and thinking.

  24. Dec 2015
    1. who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls,

      Fire and turpentine are destructive elements but are described as something of "paradise" and they fulfill the "dreams" of the subjects. It could also be described through the motif the beautiful and the sublime. The subjects search the vastness of life with the beautiful drugs, alcohol and experiences.