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  1. May 2018
    1. let me not forget for a moment, let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours.

      In these stanzas by only reading them you could feel the love he has for his wife. How he saids that he doesn't want to "forget a moment" he wants to be reminded of everything he has gone threw with her.

    2. If it is not my portion to meet thee in this life then let me ever feel that I have missed thy sight

      In this stanza the poet describes how his life would be if he had never met his wife. He feels that his life would not be the same without her.

  2. Apr 2018
    1. “You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head – Do you think, at your age, it is right?

      In the poem “You are Old, Father William,” the father William is being asked three questions by a young man. Father William explains that although he is old he does things as a young person. For example, he stands on his head constantly the young man asks if that is an appropriate activity for a man his age. Father William then answer by saying that he never did that when young because he was scared to injured his brain and since he never injured his brain he stands on his head as often as he could now. Different then the other poem where he tells the young man to live life to the fullest in this one he gives him examples of how the priest has lives his.

    2. You are old, Father William, the young man cried, ⁠The few locks which are left you are grey; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man, ⁠Now tell me the reason I pray.

      In the poem “The Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them,” Father William teaches a young man not to take his youth for granted. The same the old man has not done. He tells the young man to not abused of his health and strength. He tells the young man to live life to the fullest so that he may never have regret for things that he didn’t do in the past. Also to never forget God now young as God will also remember him when he gets old.

    3. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!   How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes.   In works of labor or of skill, I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.   In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last.

      The poetry of “How Doth the Little Busy Bee” tries to teach us how we could be the best of us like the bee. The bee works hard to get the nectar from the flowers to make honey. This is a symbol that humans, like the bee could also work hard to get what they want. The poet in that poem also wants to be like the bee and spend his life busy and be the best edition of himself. The poet wants to be able to give a good report of all he has done.

    1. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, ‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’

      This is a form of anthropomorphized the rabbit has human traits.

  3. Mar 2018
    1. Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to their fainting country cling

      The rulers that nor see or felt where part of the cabinet sucking the blood out of their country. They didn't care they just wanted more money in their pockets.

    2. An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race,

      The king is dying old and doesn't really notice anything that is happening around him. He is blind to what is happening to his country. His sons will have to pay for what is hapening.

    1. Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was far different from mine in every other respect. He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature, but I was wretched, helpless, and alone. Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.

      The creature saw himself as Adam without no father or mother made by a creator the only difference was that Adam apart from him was made by God. Adam was loved and protected. Unlike the creature that had no one and had no idea of who or what he was. He sometimes believe that he is a symbol of satan.

    2. You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing? They spurn and hate me.

      The creature is expressing his feelings to Dr. Frankenstein he is telling him that if he that made him has so much hate for him what can he expect from others that don't have anything to do with him.

    3. Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind.

      The creation is telling Dr. victor Frankenstein that he knows know that Dr. Frankenstein detest him and that he wants him dead. He is also asking the Dr. that how he dare play with life and that he has a duty with him and of course he does he made him and if he looks after him the creature will do his part.

  4. Feb 2018
    1. His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.

      He was admiring what he thought was beautiful in his eyes but realized that it only formed more horror.

    2. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.

      This creation represented all his hard work. He believe this creation was all he had. He put his hard and soul into giving life to an inanimate body.

    3. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.

      Frankenstein believe that my creating a new creation he was going to bring light into the world.He wanted to feel like he deserve been a father, and what other way then by making him.

    1. ‘Teach them to read and write,’ say they, ‘and you take them out of the station assigned them by nature.’ An eloquent Frenchman has answered them, I will borrow his sentiments. But they know not, when they make man a brute, that they may expect every instant to see him transformed into a ferocious beast.

      They believe that if they teach the poor to read and write that by learning you take them out of the station they become educated and the poor will learn that theres more than only working like animals. Also for the aristocrats learning is power.

    2. And why do they not discover, when “in the noon of beauty’s power,” that they are treated like queens only to be deluded by hollow respect, till they are led to resign, or not assume, their natural prerogatives?

      i believed that what Mary Wollstonecraft is trying to say is that women didn't discover that the only reason they were being treated like queens was because of their beauty and that after becoming committed to a men they would be imposed with his rules only to become housewives.

    1. When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ”

      The child is saying how his father sold him when he "scarcely" meaning barely cry. After his mother die his life changed completely.

    2. What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp! When the stars threw down their spears And water’d heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

      The speaker is asking questions to the Tiger of who made him. Like who dare to make such a fearful creature that only gives us terror. He compared the Tigers maker as if it was a blacksmith with a hammer. I choose the word "Dread," as in the poem represents fear.

    3. He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child: I a child & thou a lamb, We are called by his name.

      The lamb represents Jesus. In this stanza he explains how Jesus is meek and mild comparing him to a lamb also.

    1. If I had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner. I would see Africans in the same way that I, as a child, had seen Fide’s family.

      In this quote Adichie uses logos and ethos. She is putting herself in her roommates shoes. She is saying that if she had not grown in Nigeria she had also though just like her roommate because now that she lives out of Africa she understands the point of views that other see.

    2. All of these stories make me who I am. But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me.

      Adichie explains that Americans believe that in order for someone to prosper in life they have to come from horrible conditions. These stereotypes occur because that is the side of the story that Americans have heard. Of course she had gone threw tough times like everyone else has in their lifetime but she explains that not all her experiences are negative and that she is made up of much more.

    3. I thought about this when I left Nigeria to go to university in the United States. I was 19. My American roommate was shocked by me. She asked where I had learned to speak English so well, and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language.

      This quote is a example of how Adichie's roommate expected Adichie to be because she believe that because Adichie was African she was a certain way and it was the total opposite The roommate believed that because that was probably what she have seen and heard around her. Is an example of what happends when you only know one single story

    4. I’m a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call “the danger of the single story.”

      What the writer might be trying to say with " the danger of a single story." Is that you have to hear more than one side. Or even see for yourself because by listening to one story you could end up believing something totally different.