In this passage of the novel it is easy to tell that the children, as well as Miss Cathy and the housekeeper, see the child as an outsider, and as a dirty animal. They speak of how the child is old enough "to walk and talk" but that he only repeats "gibberish that nobody could understand". The child isn't doing anything exceedingly odd other than existing in a place where those around don't think he belongs. It's interesting that later in the passage, it is stated that the daughter Cathy grins and spits on the "stupid little thing", acting the most animal-like of anyone there. The father then strikes her, again showing the more wild and animalistic side of Wuthering Heights. The housekeeper says that Mr. Earnshaw strikes Cathy as a way to "teach her cleaner manners", but clearly if she spits on a toddler her manners won't be helped by being hit. The fact that the family is treating the child like a rodent that someone weaseled it's way into their home is interesting because they are the ones acting like animals.

I find this line interesting because earlier it is stated that Lady Bertram had "only seven thousand pounds" as a dowry, which I guess at the time and for the title was a small amount. It is later stated that Lady Bertram's family was wealthy but not quite as wealthy as Sir Bertram's family, thus this "match" would have been a bit out of the ordinary because usually the economic standing between two people set to be married at the time was the same. I find it interesting that the people of Huntingdon loved the match and though it was great. Perhaps the people of the town liked the match so much because someone who wasn't quite as wealthy as Sir Thomas was marrying him, and people always love to root for an underdog (although it is clear that Lady Bertram's family was plenty wealthy).

Wordsworth starts off this poem by stating that it has been five years since he had last been to Tintern Abbey (or the sycamore tree a few miles above). He says that it has been five summers that have passed, but it has felt like five long winters, meaning that he has felt cold and dark away from the serenity of his spot under the sycamore tree. Wordsworth missed "these waters, rolling from their mountain-springs" and "these steep and lofty cliffs". Wordsworth missed communing with nature and by returning to Tintern Abbey he feels a connection with nature that he might have feared he had lost, but he realizes that he can never fully disconnect from nature, because it rarely changes and he can always return to find the cliffs or the mountain-springs like they were years ago.

This part of the poem strikes me as a metaphor for how fall can make one feel. Throughout this poem, Keats explores all the wonderful aspects of autumn, from smelling the flowers (Drows'd with the fume of poppies) to drinking fresh cider (Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cruder-press, with a patient look). I believe in the line "fill all fruit with ripeness to the core" Keats and all people are the fruit, and the ripeness is the joy that they gain from the joys of autumn. Many people often see spring or summer as the most joyful season, but in this piece Keats makes a strong argument for autumn and it's own kind of beauty.

This makes me think of the convict as so forlorn and dejected that if his head were not connected to his body it might fall off. This line to me signifies a sort of disconnect between the convict's mind and body. His head is on his body, not a part of it. Perhaps because his surroundings are so grim he tries to disconnect his mind from his body and escape the cell through his mind.