I find it very interesting that Rossetti chooses to describe the goblins in this way. Rossetti gives the goblins animalistic qualities and features. She dehumanizes them to an extent, if you can even dehumanize goblins, but I feel as though Rossetti has to dehumanize the goblins in this poem. If Rosetti doesn't dehumanize the goblins then we aren't given the vile creatures that commit the heinous acts later in the poem. They need to be dehumanized for this "cautionary tale" because the audience or reader needs something to fear, and mere mortals are not capable of such acts in the fantasy universe that the poem takes place in. By dehumanizing the goblins and giving them animalistic features Rossetti creates the beasts that are feared in her cautionary tale.

The thing that strikes me most about this comment is the irony. Heathcliff has been referred to as the devil or having devilish qualities numerous times since his adolescence through his adulthood. Usually it would be odd for someone to refer to themselves as the devil, but I don’t believe that is the case here due to the context. Heathcliff is attempting to help Linton back to Withering Heights, he needs the assistance because he is weak and frail. When he refers to himself as the devil the tone isn’t serious, he says it in a joking manner, he is using it in the way you would use the expression “you look like you’ve seen a ghost.” Heathcliff is merely commenting about Catherine’s eccentric behavior. This is Bronte using dramatic irony, because Heathcliff unknowingly calls himself the very insult that the rest of the characters have been calling him for twenty seven chapters.

The line that stands out to me most during this interaction is "we should be beggars?" Again we see the recurring theme of cultural capital at work. Heathcliff is of a lower social standing than Catherine, but Catherine would rather keep her social status in tact than degrade herself by marrying someone of a lower standing. Even though she has the best intentions at heart and only wants to help Heathcliff by marrying Edgar, Catherine is hurting Heathcliff more than she understands. Imagine being told by the person you love that they can't be with you because you aren't good enough. Though Heathcliff overhears this private conversation between Catherine and Nelly rather than being told directly by Catherine, the content is still traumatizing nonetheless. The toll that would take on an individual's psyche is unfathomable. Perhaps this event is responsible for some of Heathcliff's actions later in the novel. Heavy stuff.

When Matthew Arnold writes a "Sea of Faith" he is directly speaking about religion or faith. He mentions Sophocles and the Ancient Greeks, he does so to contrast the Ancient Greeks and his contemporary society. In Ancient Greece religion and faith were incredibly prevalent, however as society has developed it has become less and less important. The sea is a perfect metaphor for this trend because the tides change, as has this trend through history, as we saw a resurgence of religion during the renaissance. The poem undoubtedly has a dark and depressing tone, but perhaps Arnold uses this tone to express his discontent with his society's lack of faith.

Hermans begins her poem by questioning where the "mighty dead" are, as she uses the ocean setting to represent the final resting place of forgotten soldiers. I think the decision to use the ocean to represent "Glory's bed" fits perfectly because lost sailors and dead soldiers would share the same fate, they would be forgotten. Hermans mentions glory and at the time glory would have been a legitimate reason for someone to join the military, whether it be glory for state or self. However, with that being said glory comes at a price, and sometimes that "price" is your life. Perhaps Hermans includes this to potentially inform ignorant young men of the dangers of war.

The speaker discusses seeing her child, a white child, the product of abuse. The speaker attempts to cover her child's face so that she would not have to look at his face. She could be doing this for a number of reasons most likely because the speaker is experiencing shame for having the child or resentment towards the child. Perhaps she cannot look at the child because she acknowledges that it is half white, but she knows that her child will not have the same freedoms or rights as others that are completely white, especially because he was born into slavery.

In this stanza Southey provides the reader with the horrific image of an infant being torn away from its mother. Southey is attempting to show the inhumanity of the slave trade. The following lines discuss sinking in the ocean, drawing attention to the fact that a large number of the slaves being bought and sold would die en route to wherever their destination was, whether it be because of the poor living conditions or because the transport ship sank. I think Southey added in these lines specifically because he is attempting to show the reader that when these families are ripped apart it is very finite, and that these people will have virtually no chance of ever seeing their family again, and if that isn't heartbreaking then I don't know what is.

In this passage Fanny has returned home to visit her family. We see the recurring theme of Fanny as an outsider, she has been an outsider in Mansfield Park for years, but she has become so accustomed to the lifestyle of Mansfield that she no longer feels comfortable around her family. Perhaps this means that Fanny has become a full fledged member of Mansfield park, outgrowing her low-class/impoverished family, or perhaps this means that Fanny is just completely and utterly an outsider from both communities. Either way she uncomfortable around her family and believes that she would not feel this way at her uncle's house.

Fanny has underwent a rather intriguing transformation over the course of the book, initially she was an outsider, a child, worthless for lack of a better word. However, after this transformation she has now become an insider, a detrimental member of the Mansfield Park community, because now she is beautiful and now that she is beautiful she has worth, in the eyes of her community at least. Which is such a terrible thing to say, but her family doesn't value her for any real reason other than the fact that she is now beautiful may potentially benefit them as they use her to climb the ladder of the social hierarchy. The community treats Fanny less like a person but more of an asset, they way a business would, which in my opinion is rather inhumane.

The novel begins by describing how Miss Maria Ward was betrothed to Sir Thomas Bertram. The language used to describe the marriage is more strategic than romantic, it is devoid of any kind of emotion or passion. The only things mentioned are positions of power, status and money, "an handsome house and a large income." At the time this would have been rather common, as marriages were not about emotions or love but rather to act as footholds to climb the social hierarchy. This is incredibly evident because not only would Miss Maria ward benefit from her marriage to Sir Thomas Bertram, "she had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation" as well.

The speaker describes the scenery with such fondness and in incredible detail, claiming that although the speaker has been long removed from the Tintern Abbey that they still think of it often. While the speaker may be elsewhere such as other towns or cities that the thoughts and memories of Tintern Abbey and its beauty can be "Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart" and offers "tranquil restoration" confirming that Tintern Abbey is a rather special place to the speaker.

Throughout the poem there are heavy themes of change and mortality. These lines are especially important in that regard because they clearly highlight those themes. The speaker is discussing some of the living things that can be found in nature such as bees and flowers, and how they prosper and thrive during the summer, thinking that the "warm days will never cease", however the seasons change and the living things will eventually wither and die. The speaker is trying to emphasize these themes of change and mortality by showing that every living thing is mortal and will die, but how there is a sense of beauty in change and mortality.

The speaker or convict just spent many lines discussing how he is remorseful for his actions. While his crimes may be terrible he believes that the crimes of the monarch are much worse. The speaker criminalizes the monarch and shows the difference between the convict and the monarch. While the convict's crimes were lesser than that of the monarch he is remorseful. The monarch's crimes were much worse yet he is able to sleep peacefully at night knowing the terrible condition that the country and the penal system are in.