The banishment scenes here will be extra dramatic, I really want to pull on the feeling of betrayal

I'll probably have this scene be minimized in comparison to the rest, it works well for the play, but in the comic I'm worried it might get muddled

I am doing a comic version of this scene and I hope to have each sister have a large illustrated manuscript-esque page where they tell King Lear how much they love him. I think it'll be really funny when it's Cordelia's turn and she just says "nothing my lord"

Sargassum, as in seaweed, border. I think this is meant to describe a tangled mass of undefined webbing.

Hope is a broken promise that leaves you disappointed.

Hope is a promise of perseverance.

It's crazy to think about an ancient civilization writing about an even more ancient civilization. It definitely adds to the poem that it's written in old English.

I always forget that writing should be a depiction of your voice rather than trying to sound cool or interesting through your writing when you're just using a borrowed writing style that isn't how you talk in real life. I definitely tend to accidentally fall into trying to sound more sophisticated and it makes it significantly harder to write.

I like the use of slant to mean multiple things, especially because the most common take I hear about lies is that it's a slippery slope, but telling the truth at a slant gives you more ability to keep yourself up. also in writing slants are called italics, which draw more attention to the word.

Everyone played a role in our downfall, and everyone needs to play a role in our salvation.

I think it's interesting how the poem isn't critical of the student, and it gives another perspective

it feels like the poem is describing how often the title of wife is often denoted to a subservient homemaker, and the grief of having to deal with that pressure.

I love the personification of death and how the classic trope of your life flashing before your eyes is just a trip in a carriage, and death isn't taking you, but stopping for you. It makes death sound much kinder than other depictions have.

the whole poem is very kind, however it is also nondescript and could be for anyone. it describes general qualities rather than specifics of her beauty.

continuously circling back to previously mentioned insecurities is peak anxiety

growing old and fulfilling your plans and then not knowing what to do with yourself, just waiting around to die

this poem has a similar rhyme scheme as a limerick, which makes it feel kind of singsongy despite being a sadder poem

a movie about real people and doesn't capitalize on suffering, while showing the real life scenarios that people live with.

Just because something is made up doesn't make it any less real.

this poem feels like its being written by a ghost that already knows of their death, but isn't aware that they're already dead. It comes across as a haunting of war

interesting comparison of life to paper: fragile, light, and "flammable' (as a way to say easily ended).

nothing is permanent, and change is the constant state of existence.

I love the connection made between strangers and the current readers, as well as the anonymity yet also vulnerability everyone sharing these books has.

Reading this feels like I suddenly forget English.

"I may be a mess, but I am free"

I like how despite it not being a horror story, it still is a horrifying scenario.

I wonder about the significance of her name being a serious disease that causes hysteria... could she be a figment of his imagination?

there's a lot of repetition in this poem, the words "by the sea" and "Annabel Lee" are repeated in nearly every stanza drawing out the importance of the connection between the two

Really neat rhyming pattern throughout the poem, it's simple but intriguing.

Though Adam is given the opportunity to form his own identity, Eve is told from the moment she came into existence she is told that she was created to be a mother/partner for Adam, seems there are some double standards....

the indistinguishable faces are clumped together into a living breathing mass, like a plant. because of the simplicity of the poem, changing the title could change the underlying message.

we know the terrible effects of our actions, it certainly seems intentional that the planet is covered in plastic when any rational entity would stop immediately after seeing the consequences.

beautiful use of descriptive language, very cathartic

many contrasting descriptions, possibly due to contrasting feelings of America.

Not too humble for someone who has been utterly forgotten since the fall of his empire

Interesting wording, antique can be used not only to show the age, but also give an aura of valuability to the land.

The singer has regret of how he lived his life when he was young.

Cool use of repetition to draw emphasis!

people's dialect points to very specific regions that all tell a different story, and people who share a dialect can find common ground in their heritage.

A sad truth that being overly trusting of people is a flaw, wherever you go people will want to take advantage of you. though having faith and hope people will be good, you will always be disappointed. No amount of love for your child will protect them from that kind of betrayal.

Kay shines light on how people ideally want to raise their child as their parents never raised them: being a mentor for hard times and an anchor when the hard times can't be fixed.

The poem paints a very pretty picture of life in southern Appalachia, The list of food at the beginning and the warm feeling of content and nostalgia are well illustrated through southern experiences.

No matter how much damage colonization does to the earth, nature will always take back what belongs to it. one day we will rot in the ground and be energy to the soil and in the geological and ecological sense of things we are a blip.

people want definitive answers to things and become angry when they don't understand. poems are a grey area that many don't (or won't) understand only due to a lack of patience to learn.

holding a color slide to the light allows for a clearer view of the slide's content, doing so with a poem metaphorically would be a call to look closer into the meaning behind the poem.

It's interesting that Anji chose Kermit the Frog as a public domain character when none of the Muppets are under the public domain. If this was intentional, it can give some characterization to Anji showing she was too lazy to research copyrights.

Picking berries that grow in warm climates and trusting animals known to eat people? interesting message... possibly indicating that things are not as you may expect.