Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet
ZOMBIE: The fixation on the feet of each man shows that each each man connects to my motif because they are showing signs of a disembodied spirit, regular people would have their eyes/head up to see what's ahead of them but now these people doesn't have to worry about whats ahead of them.
I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring.
ZOMBIE: This crowd of people in this ring connects with the motif of zombies because a supernatural connection to the ring could be 9 circles of hell or the 7 deadly sins, leading to the herd being drawn to it
White bodies naked on the low damp ground And bones cast in a little low dry garret
ZOMBIE: Our conversation in class when we were talking about different interpretations of zombies, this instance connects with my motif because these pale bodies haven't decayed fully, but are experiencing no life or soul within themselves
Oed’ und leer das Meer.
The shift between the english language and german language makes me think of narrator that is bilingual, but i get a feeling that there is two narrators. Maybe not
I will show you fear in a handful of dust
How can a handful of dust cause fear? Fear of blindness? What is the statement's symbolism?
Winter kept us warm
Winter kept you warm? How? A fire place? Being together?
Was it a space was it a space was it a space to see
Creating space, having space to be alone, looking up into space all influenced by curiosity or doubt. space
Mourn in morning.
With all of the repetition of words and this line reminding me of the life cycle, most people mourn in the morning because they had to wake up and go about their business. life cycle
Happy happy happy all the. Happy happy happy all the
The repetition of happy made me smile a bit because happy is an emotion i always see myself in. Happiness
you were probably saving for breakfast
Whoever the speaker is addressing I hope they are not mad about their plums being eaten, and should reassure the speaker that as long as they didn't lie or keep a secret about eating it everything is okay
No one to witness and adjust, no one to drive the car
These final lines show the hopelessness and isolation that needs to be addressed because there is no one else to witness it, fix it, or lead
mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes
On the pervious line when it said "The pure products of America" does Williams associate Kentucky and Jersey stereotypically to try to connect it to America?
yet that hour will come. . .
With our conversations in the past couple class meetings and the topic of change Millay plays with the idea of change and how we should protect our youth.
Most various Man, cut down to spring no more; Before his prime, even in his infancy Cut down, and all the clamour that was he, Silenced
These lines imagery of cutting life short and living a short life before your prime shows that there was so much potential that could have happened if they lived and continued living their lives.
Yet many a man is making friends with death
This particular part of the poem touches upon how people could be driven to desperate times and measure to obtain love altering their will of life, health, and emotions.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
Once I first read this poem I thought the narrator was in awe about the woods, but after reading "dark" and "deep" this undermined my style of reading because now I see the narrator is in fear of the mysterious and dark woods, wanting to leave the woods before he sleeps given the reason why the narrator repeats themselves.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.
Building a wall or a fence for our own privacy and safety makes us good neighbors, but the narrator questions why does a wall/fence makes us as individuals a "good" neighbor. This reverses our expectations as readers because we create these walls/fences to maintain certain personal boundaries, but the separation and disconnection amongst neighbors and the public mean we have no personal connection with them.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
As the narrator takes the less popular path of the yellow wood realizing that both paths are almost alike just one path being worn down more, this undermines our expectations as readers because getting the opportunity to choose your own path and adventure down a path is one thing, but seeing another path being equally the same suggests that choosing a path isn't significant to us or the path.
The strings that stretch from heaven, till too soon The change came, and the music passed away.
From the excerpt Adams “The Dynamo and the Virgin” there was quite a few points made by Adams about religion, and seeing religion brought up again in Robinson's poem shows that even though the world goes through changes in a rapid rate religion will still be a subject to be brought up.
Below him, in the town among the trees, Where friends of other days had honored him, A phantom salutation of the dead Rang thinly till old Eben’s eyes were dim.
Talking about change whether it societal. environmental, or industrial, Robinson just like Du Bois and Adams talk about evolution and how it affects our understanding of the poem and its history. The poem's exploration on Mr. Flood surroundings changing also signifies that he is also changing because he is adapting alongside his age.
And you that ache so much to be sublime,
From the excerpt of Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” I annotated saying "Comparing both Du Bois and Adams from our conversation in class on tuesday, both of them capture the sublime through the rapid modern change." In this poem the connection with the sublime affects and inspires the audience intertwining their emotions for the beauty and vastness of their surroundings, just like in the excerpts from Du Bois and Adams
So of course I said no more on that score, and we went to sleep before long. He thought I was asleep first, but I wasn’t, and lay there for hours trying to decide whether that front pattern and the back pattern really did move together or separately.
The effects of the yellow wallpaper and its pattern is also affecting her sleep schedule causing her to lay there and wonder if the pattern moved
It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. No wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long.
the narration about the yellow wallpaper makes me want to hate the color yellow and any wallpaper that looks dull
I don’t want to go outside. I won’t, even if Jennie asks me to. For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead of yellow.
what I found interesting is that she went from wanting to jump out the window, removing some of the wallpaper out, not wanting to leave and go outside, and noting that the outside is green instead of yellow shows that the yellow wallpaper made a huge impact on decision making
It is in the early days of rollicking boyhood that the revelation first bursts upon one, all in a day, as it were.
Was the revelation more on identity or racial identity in society?
Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
Even through Adams discuss about a societal shift and Du Bois focuses more on African American community both Adams and Du Bois talk about the struggles and responsibilities that get shifted
That sky was bluest when I could beat my mates at examination-time, or beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their stringy heads.
Comparing both Du Bois and Adams from our conversation in class on tuesday, both of them capture the sublime through the rapid modern change
yet he did not know how to look at the art exhibits of 1900
how did adams examine the art in the exhibit? Was adam confused about the composition or artist's intentions?
Among the thousand symbols of ultimate energy the dynamo was not so human as some, but it was the most expressive.
Is human history formed by energy Adams hypothesis?
The pursuit turned out to be long and tortuous, leading at last to the vast forests of scholastic science.
was this journey about science, the history or science, religion, philosophy, or something else?
They Lion
Are "They Lion" representing people rising up?
From
Is there a reason why Levine chose to repeat the words "Out" "Of" "From" "Come" and "They Lion grow" multiple times?