Invent real tears, hard love,
All these things to "invent" which suggests to do these things in order to make the world a better place
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- Nov 2017
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The genre is dead
New beginnings, things change
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This is not fantasy, this is our life. We are the characters
We are the ones experiencing what happens
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parroting
Means "repeating"
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she’d be better off laid out on this beach here and left for the gulls.
Are they going to kill her? Why is she better off left to die alone? WHat did she do?
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ut his mother was long dead, he had never known her,
Ironic that he doesn't know her, but can describe her in great detail
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Are we in it?
In what? His head?
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Melinda Durham and Agatha Hanwell. They shared no more DNA than strangers.
We now know the names the girl characters being talked about, but they are not alike, the author suggests they are entirely different
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node
Node: Dictionary.com defines this as "a point at which lines or pathways intersect or branch; a central or connecting point".
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Ideally he would be—
...? Would be what? This leaves the reader on edge
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the new technology
What could this be? Will this be significant?
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- Sep 2017
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horse cultures.
This is another idea that is repeated throughout the poem but the significance of the repetition is unclear
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Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written,
Is there really a novel going to be written? Or is the word written a connotation for when things are going to change...?
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all of the Indians will be ghosts
i dont understand this last line...does it mean that the Indians will be gone and inexistent when the novel is written?
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Indians always have secrets,
what could these be? how are they significant to Indians?
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She should be compared to nature: brown hills, mountains, fertile valleys, dewy grass, wind, and clear water.
I like that the author uses descriptive language throughout the text, it makes it easier to visualize and understand what the author is trying to convey
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the blue veins running through his skin like rivers.
this simile adds description and imagery to the poem making it more appealing to readers
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tragic
the word tragic is repeated 4 times in the first two lines which makes me wonder how repetition of the word "tragic" is significant to the rest of the poem
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feign
according to dictionary.com, feign means "to put an appearance of". This is saying that white women pretend to look at the Indian men with disgust but actually lust over them
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for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.
does this mean at first he felt guilty for hurting the cat, but at the same time it had no effect on him? The line "and the soul remained untouched" makes me think that knowing what he did to the cat didnt effect him in any way
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sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder,
i assume this line is talking about the black cat
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y the bye, gentlemen, this — this is a very well constructed house.” (In the rabid desire to say something easily, I scarcely knew what I uttered at all.) — “I may say an excellently well constructed house. These walls — are you going, gentlemen? — these walls are solidly put together;”
he is hinting at the fact that his wife is in the walls somewhere. he is indirectly trying to tell the police where the body is and i wonder if its because the guilt is starting to get to him?
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I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan.
His wife took the fall for the cat, but then she ended up being the one to be killed. At first I thought he was only out to hurt the cat, but this line proves his attitude and anger is towards anything, even his wife.
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Evil thoughts became my sole intimates — the darkest and most evil of thoughts. The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind;
why did he become so dark inside and a hater for everything?
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not only neglected, but ill-used them.
how so? was his wife aware?
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a cat.
what is going to be significant about this, seeing the title is "black cat"?
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a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified — have tortured — have destroyed me.
Curious to see what these events are, that 'destroyed' Poe
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hitherto
Dictionary.com says the word, hitherto, means 'up to this time;until now'. The sentence now translates easier and helps me understand that it means the people are a position different from which they once were.
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Firmly relying upon the final triumph of the Right and the True,
how do we know what is right and what is true?
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that all men and women are created equal;
that is what we are told, but is that really true in today's world?
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- Aug 2017
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