Where is "Rockland"?

Moloch is typically a God that people do not worship. So, Moloch being mentioned here means that nothing good will come out of the current situation.

I've noticed that a lot of the lines start off with the word "who." This "who" that the author is describing seem to be not just a single person.

The poem started off with a very descriptive imagery to etch into the readers head while reading this poem.

This line is not only used at the beginning and end of the poem, but also the title of the poem. This line tells the readers that the narrator does everything that Americans do, so he/she is also American, whether the society accepts them or not.

The narrator must be very wise if he/she has known rivers for as long as they came to be.

This poem is like the second part of another poem. There seems to be no beginning since we don't know why the narrator left, where he came from. The ending is also unclear, since we don't know where the narrator is returning to.

Embracing a culture that tries to reject you only means that the person believes that one day that the society will start to accept you.

I've noticed a lot of the word "he" used throughout the essay, even though the essay is talking about the Negro population. Why is the word "he" used instead of "they" to represent the population?

This statement makes me think of cultural differences between races. The reason that there are differences is because how some things are considered bad to some races, but good to other races.

The black community frowns upon their own community member until the "other race" notices him. Black artists aren't truly able to shine until they are given the opportunity to do so by white people.

The part where black people want to be more white is not just something black poets would say, but many others that are part of the black community. This is because black people in America try to be more white, so they can fit into the society without being discriminated.

The mother is putting her faith into the child to grow up strong and be able to fight for her, or more precisely, a "Bolshevik."

The first word of the second line of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th stanzas are the only difference separating those stanzas.

This "Dempsey" person appears to be someone that everyone hates. He's a "big boy" yet a "failure king."

It seems like the people who are going to war, the only thing that they can look forward to is similar to spring, where things are full of life again.

New year is like new hope for everyone. People should have a good start to their year, yet the speaker is having the worst time of his life near the beginning of the year.

There seems to be no water, but the repetition of "drip drop" says that the speaker is hallucinating, thirsting for water.

Four lines to just describe the place full of rocks with no water? Is the image of the setting that important?

The readers are being compared to Phlebas. Is it because Phlebas is facing death and everyone would face it too?

The third poem had fire in its title, and now the fourth poem is related to water. Is there a special meaning to this?

The repetition of these words do not sound like words that are used in a song full of life.

This isn't the lines that I would expect to see under "The Waste Land" where everything is supposed to be compared to death.

This "she" doesn't seem to have a name. Does that mean that this "she" is not a public figure? However, she is sitting in a chair "like" a burnished throne.

The panic questions that the speaker is asking himself shows how unstable the speaker was. Another thing that I noticed was that the first question ended with a period instead of a question mark.

After all that the narrator has experienced, the narrator is now like an empty shell, emotionless.

Spring is the season where the trees and flowers bloom, so why are the roots dull? Also, "winter kept us warm" is another contradicting line. This poem gives off the idea that everything that is wrong is happening and makes it quite hard to have an image of the situation.

A lot of repetition in this poem. This poem is long in lines, yet the lines area very short. The words are not difficult, yet trying to understand the poem is difficult.

The usage of words like "Pat ten" and "patent" and the short lines tells the reader to read quickly but closely, so the words and syllables are read correctly.

This is one of the very few instances where "they" is mentioned. Throughout the poem, the question of who or what the author is talking about was in my mind.

This is a sign of pity that people are starting to have for the poor children. People did not like the children at the beginning, but soon began to felt sorry for the children and tried to help them as best as they can.

This principle is interesting; it does make sense that the best presenters do not stray off the subject. But, a good presenter also needs to be able to have their audience's attention, so is it truly possible to absolutely use no words that does not contribute to the presentation?

I have always thought of "image" as a representation of an impression of something.

The last line shows the importance of love. The author says how the smarter choice would be to have other life necessities instead of love, but she still chooses to have love over the life necessities.

This is an interesting take, saying how love does not help our hunger or thirst, nor does it give us shelter. Yet, when love is mentioned, people cannot live without love, whether it is love from a significant other, from family members, or from friends.

To me, the last two lines sounded like someone who has taken a path that no one else has taken. This path may have been rougher than the others, but it was well worth it in the narrator's opinion, because the narrator experienced what not many has been able to experience.

The author starts off the poem with the conflict of not being able to simultaneously travel through both paths of the road.

This library that was built to teach the people about good and evil is no longer there. After the narrator's death, nobody seems to be able to separate good and evil, truth and lies anymore.

Rose is a type of flower that represents love. The authors take on rose is that it is still a flower, so it eventually wilts if not taken care of with love. So, love in the narrator's sense is something that isn't long-lasting.

The words "auld lang syne" means the old times are gone. The poem ends with a sad note that the town is no longer something that is familiar to the narrator. His friends are no longer there, and everyone there is now a stranger to him.

Poets and kings are remembered for what they have done in their life. Poets and their legacies are remembered through their famous works. Kings and their legacies are engraved into teachings for future generations to learn from and not repeat errors in the past. To me, comparing poets and kings to clerks is saying how poets and kings are there to record events that has happened and guide the next generations.

This piece focuses on the dynamo, which is related to science. Yet, Eve and Herodias, characters mentioned in the Bible are mentioned in this piece. This leads me to thinking that this "force" that is mentioned throughout the piece is related to religion more so than science.

The starting lines are making a comparison between the voice of his heart to the waters of the sea. The narrator struggles to differentiate the difference between the waters and his heart, because they are both grieving.

This phrase symbolizes the confinement that the narrator is feeling even though she is living inside her own room. This feeling began to show up after taking down the wallpaper.

Unlike the first three stanzas where "they lion" is only used at the end of the stanzas, "they lion" used in the middle of the fourth stanza because the lion is rising up.