'Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love.'
shows how invested one get get when reading and annotating a piece of literature. annotating is a way to make one more involved with the book. it can also connect those that felt the same way through similar annotations and parts of the text.
how vastly my loneliness was deepened,how poignant and amplified the world before me seemed,when I found on one page
speaker is maybe saying how they wish the world was how it was in the books they read, the books were a utopia, a way to get away from the real world
the one that dangles from me like a locket,
the speaker uses this metaphor to say that he constantly remembers one novel due to how impactful it was to him
until you have read himenwreathed with Blake's furious scribbling.
to truly understand some texts you need to read about others opinions and how they interpreted it
we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages; we pressed a thought into the wayside,planted an impression along the verge.
this stanza does a really good job in how it describes the idea of the entire poem. the way that readers must stop simply writing nonsense as annotations and instead take some time to think about it and give an opinion
And if you have managed to graduate from collegewithout ever having written 'Man vs. Nature'in a margin, perhaps nowis the time to take one step forward.
this stanza alludes to the education in literature that is being provided for kids and how teachers are asking for the bare minimum
Or they are fans who cheer from the empty bleachers,Hands cupped around their mouths.'Absolutely,' they shoutto Duns Scotus and James Baldwin.'Yes.' 'Bull's-eye.' 'My man! 'Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation pointsrain down along the sidelines.
shows how some readers don't put any thought into what they are reading about
One scrawls 'Metaphor' next to a stanza of Eliot's.Another notes the presence of 'Irony'
common annotations for students is figurative language
Students are more modestneeding to leave only their splayed footprintsalong the shore of the page.
says how students don't care as much about what they right as long as they put something down on the side of the pages
trying to imagine what the person must look like
individuals can hide behind their annotations or in a more online world they can hide behind screens
Other comments are more offhand, dismissive -'Nonsense.' 'Please! ' 'HA! ! ' -
these comments are less hateful towards the author and seem to have more fun behind them
Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O'Brien,
what do these writers have to say that the reader disagrees with?
Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O'Brien,they seem to say,I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head.
reader seems to disagree with what these writers have to say
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character, speaking in first person, seems to be reading some sort of text
skirmishes against the authorraging along the borders of every pagein tiny black script.
whoever is reading the text is leaving annotations in the margins against whatever the author wrote in the text
notes
the author personified notes, could it be a character?