How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale How cheerfully he seems to grin How neatly spreads his claws And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!
i thought this poem was very cute and sweet. it shows a scary animal in a simple and likable way.
“In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.”
i enjoy how it rhymes but its every other line. but it also speaks of the struggles of everyday life.
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end
alice was falling like it was endless.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly
this line was very interesting. the fact that both concepts of depth and time were added here. the fact is that the author wants us to wonder.
Currants and gooseberries, Bright-fire-like barberries,
Rossetti is saying here that you will get goosebumps and be like barberries. also barberries means a thorny shrub that bears yellow flowers and red or blue-black berries.
Our grapes fresh from the vine, Pomegranates full and fine,
Christina Rossetti is rhyming the words "vine" and "fine"
From the cradle to the grave
death is inevitable. no matter what we do in life we are doomed to the cradle and grave.
Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed;
this portion is taking about the fact that the bible is not something the people follow or believe in. That the book is, "sealed", closed.
“Devil,” I exclaimed
Now the monster wasn't just a monster, but now was considered the devil. The doctor was appalled by the creation and now he had a deep hate for it.
his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of man.
The monster not only had the body parts of different humans, but was also taller than an average man. This placed an immense fear upon the doctor.
A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.
Frankenstein was horrified by his creation now. he even implies that a mummy would be better looking then him.
. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body
He worked towards this goal for many years. his only goal was to bring life to this inanimate body. and now it was about to be a reality.
I brought my work near to a conclusion. The Monster’s Creation It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.
Frankenstein finally reached his goal.all his hard work paid off this night. he was about to become the father he longed to be.
Mankind seem to agree, that children should be left under the management of women during their childhood. Now, from all the observation that I have been able to make, women of sensibility are the most unfit for this task, because they will infallibly, carried away by their feelings, spoil a child’s temper.
Wollstonecraft describes that children need their mothers management. Children have tempers due to being spoiled and pampered and need discipline by educated women.
I lament that women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions, which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority. It is not condescension to bow to an inferior. So ludicrous, in fact, do these ceremonies appear to me, that I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude to lift a handkerchief, or shut a door, when the LADY could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.
Wollstonecraft speaks of men lusting after woman as though they were a prize. Wollstonecraft points to individuality just as we see in current day society.
“They are both gone up to the church to pray. Because I was happy upon the heath, And smil’d among the winter’s snow, They clothed me in the clothes of death, And taught me to sing the notes of woe. And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury, And are gone to praise God and his Priest and King, Who make up a heaven of our misery.”
This reminds me of the book of Job. Job is a righteous man, Satan goes to God and says "he, Job, would curse God if God stopped blessing him". Job was a wealthy man with plenty of cattle, land and a big family, but Satan tells God to take that all away and Job would curse God. and Blake is saying similar things when he says "they clothed me in clothes of death, and taught me to sing the notes of woe." Blake and Job both were put through tough trials, but yet knew there was a God that would see them through.
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.
This isn't the first time I haven't read this poem. I love Blake's analogy of The Lamb the clear message of this line is about Jesus, he came meek and mild and like a child, but is also the lamb who came to take on the sin of the world. This is Blake's way of showing who The Lamb really is.
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.”
I believe as a writer it is very hard to tell your story. Sometimes there is dangers in doing so because many might not relate or they will relate so well that they will want to keep those emotions suppressed. i know from personal experience when talking or writing about a personal story it allows me to express a side of myself that i wouldn't have normally done.