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  1. Nov 2020
    1. eir importance. Until, Virgini

      I don't think it is fair to say Woolf is the one starts questioning about women's importance. Since, a handful feminist have openly stand out to the society since 1700s to pointing out the fact that women need to be recognize, Mary Wollstonecraft being the most famous figure. In addition to that, if people only see women as beautiful would in some way be a release for women, since women literally being portrait as a creature if they do anything intellectual that's harmful to the society and so on. Women in the past years lived in such terrible situations, yet the fact they still produced good work was so fascinating to think how strong women could really be.

    1. simple fact that she’s a woman

      Even though it's true that being a women is why most of the time, women cannot do what they want. Yet, this is definitely not a simple fact, this is an outcome of all different kind of restriction, tradition and society's problematic influences. The society always use the excuse that this is how people do in past hundreds of years to restrict women's right, and talent. All these influences affects women's talent and their ability to perform themselves. There were some great women artist before 20th century, yet all their artwork was being published as men's name, or being published and get a lot of negative feedback from the society, even though they are great work, which prove that women could be as good as men as long as the society treat women the same way as men regardless what problematic culture and tradition the world had hundreds of years ago.

    2. “glass,”

      In addition to the fact that glass might directly mean fragile, but it is also interesting to thing that after the fragile glasses is broken, they become extreme harmful pieces that could protect them. The glass is always in a position or being a structure that is limited and restricted by other object or human. Same way as how the society that's dominated by men restrict what women can a d cannot do. Yet, once women break though all these limitation and restriction; they become unique individual, who can showcase their own thoughts and talent in their own beautiful way. If other people try to take this rights away from them will be come a much harder process. Just like the broken pieces of glass, they are unique and beautiful, but they are also sharp to protect what they become.

    1. but are the work of suffering human beings

      This is the classic stereotype for good artist from all different field and ages: artist have a terrible life. Not sure how much I agree with this statement, yet, I truly believe that good story come from the inspiration appear in everyday life. The artistic extraction and reduction in certain thing indicate the real effect of what artist effect feel and believe.

    1. I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in; and, thinking of the safety and prosperity of the one sex and of the poverty and insecurity of the other and of the effect of tradition

      It's fascinating to read this quote, since "to be locked in" should've been what Woolf trying to get for women. Woolf have constantly mention the fact that money and a room that nobody can interfere is all that a women need. Yet, here she "contradicts" her own point that, in fact, women is always staying in home, it is just the fact that the room they stay in always full of work as wife/mom, pressure from the society, and traditions which restrict them to be who they want to be, and limit their fundamental human rights.

    2. e for me." (pg 6)

      It's also interesting to think of the physical object she used here to describe men and women. She said the scholars are turf and the path, which is actually build on grave, where Woolf used to describe women. It almost seems like a sarcasm to me that men's success are somewhere based on women, such as the care motherhood provide, yet women who provided to men is not even allow to have the equal rights as them.

  2. May 2020
    1. To gather Paradise—

      Dickinson mentioned a lot of windows and doors which suggest the sake of freedom. Window usually symbolize freedom and what their heart wants, doors symbolize the the path the author want to go. using window and door as metaphor, Dickinson is telling herself things she want to do but cannot do.

    2. A fairer House t

      Possibility, is a house. Its doors are as solid as cedars: people can't see through them. Its roof is as high as the sky; The sky, literally, has no ups and downs; But if you think of the sky like a roof, that's the room in this house. Compared with "prose", it is fairer, with more Windows and superior doors. Its visitors are the fairest, because they can do all possible things and fulfill their dreams

    3. The reticent volcano keepsHis never slumbering plan —Confided are his projects pinkTo no precarious man.

      the pink is not real pink, the pink is the dangerous red. Red is the magma which could kill people. When a no precarious man is receiving the note form the volcano that men could be endanger without even knowing it.

    4. to the Children eased With explanation kind

      Take the example of a child who needs to be told to calm down when he is frightened by lightning. To explain the truth, he must gradually show the light or everyone will lose sight.

    5. Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —Success in Circuit lies

      Here dickinson begins by asking the reader a difficult question: what exactly is the concept of truth or truth? Truth is actually happened, it is an objective existence, the problem is that the truth I don't speak, need people out, the people involved, it will, in the judgment and interpretation of subjectivity, what is "the truth", about one hundred people there are one hundred species, it is more in need of the speaker and the wind rain, if everybody thunderous representation of "the truth", not only will frighten the baby, even adult head spin a mass of chaos.

    6. o Disgrace of Price —

      Searching Dickinson, I found out that she kept most of her poem to herself through out her life. She was a big believer of using real image to create abstract ideas. Art should be priceless.

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    1. white elephants,’

      A white elephant symbolize a problem that is difficult and serious, and that makes the atmosphere cold and solemn. This is the kind of issue that people tend to avoid talking about. Here Hemingway used the phrase "white elephant" to mean that women are very reluctant to talk about abortion.

    2. ong with me. I feel fine.’

      this kind of ending like the end and not like the end, leaving the reader hanging in the air. compare to the passage which included a lot of the undulatory ups and downs. This kind of simple ending, leave the reader to have a huge pool of imagination.

    3. can’t think about it. You know how I get when I worry.’

      The metaphor of the white elephant appeared again, which proved that the girl was extremely sensitive. She used the metaphor twice before without the approval of men, so she was sensitive to think whether men did not like her. And the man's explanation is also reasonable, his mind can not focus on this irrelevant metaphor, which is an acceptable reason. Men's attitude towards women is not as good as he says. The man is more likely to abort the baby as soon as possible; So he doesn't have to worry about the responsibility that comes with the birth of the baby.

    4. ‘They don’t really look like white elephants

      She said the mountain didn't really look like a white elephant. Her feelings had changed. It was a change in her mood.

    5. ‘No, you wouldn’t have.’

      There was a note of bitterness in her voice, but the man gave her his own. It begins to suggest that the atmosphere between the two is not pleasant, that there is some tension.

    6. can’t. It isn’t ours any more.’

      If this is an abortion operation, they are indicating the baby. once the baby are gone, they will never see this baby anymore. Also this indicate, the woman is not totally happy about this operation. she still have commemorate with this child. it's now reasonable to infer that man may have persuasive the woman to do this.

    7. they were and you’ll love me?’

      the relationship between these two character may involve a sense of patriarchal. Women are afraid of the men leaving him, in a sense, the man may surprising her. Even though the women is always saying she's fine with the operation. However, the tension under the literary form is a sense of scare.

    8. The girl did not say anything.

      Using feminist lenses we can see Hemingway chose this moment when the relationship and tension between men and women was on the verge of change. Revealing the underlying psychological trend, while his expression maintains the ambiguity of the event at this stage, he does not reinforce or exaggerate what is not obvious in it. He shows us the signs, the signs contain the possibility, the possibility is not any definite result.