how do you measure my humanness
Humans measure humans in many different ways, not just one specific such as Age, Sex, Height, Wealth, lineage, ect. Their isnt one way to be measured or judged by other people.
how do you measure my humanness
Humans measure humans in many different ways, not just one specific such as Age, Sex, Height, Wealth, lineage, ect. Their isnt one way to be measured or judged by other people.
fen
"A type of peat accumilating wetland fed by mineral rich ground or surface water", again going back to the wetlands. But this time refering to a more rich type, maybe saying how humans are measured by their wealth?
wetland
"An area where water covers the soil or is present near the surface of soil", why does she relate to that? Is it the wetlands shes refering to or the water?
Wulf’s on one island, I’m on the other.
Do they have connections from the seperate islands? How does she know hes still over their? Relationship?
They’ll want to consume him if he comes on that crowd. That’s unlikely for us.
They would most likely kill him if he confronts them but he is smarter to do otherwise.
They are murderous men there on the island.
Are they hunters that would hunt wulf? Or as in murderus to other people?
brigade
A subdivision of an army, usually consisting of a small number of units (armymen)
torn parchment used for bootblacks’ rags.
They tore the paper from books to use as rags to clean shoes
bootblacks
A word for people who polish boots or shoes
whether it’s with your fists, or a two-by-four, or a car door,
Stating that it doesnt matter how you get it done as long as you do.
not filling out the forms for food stamps though we know we qualify.
To much pride to get help from any one else.
doing 80 all the way to the head of the holler, weaving through the double lines;
Author is stating how recless we drive now like we dont have a care in the world.
laments
A passionate expression of grief or sorrow. So Mathilde is expressing grief and or sorrow.
Theodric
Germanic given name.
That passed over, this can too.
This is used over and over again in the poem. Stating that each problem that is pressented can be overcomed and that it will.
give herself to me for ever.
His reasoning and passion for wanting to kill her to keep her forever.
No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain. As a shut bud that holds a bee, I warily oped her lids: again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. And I untightened next the tress About her neck
He trys justifying and making it sound less terrifying and brutal than it was. All because he wanted to keep her forever to himself.
Porphyria's
Porphyria - A group of rare disorders that result from a buildup of natural chemicals called porphyrins in the body.
His flesh, his bone; to give thee being I lent Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart, Substantial life, to have thee by my side Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half:
Eve is created from Adams rib, therefore he classifies her as his other half without considering what she wants.
methought
Methinks - it seems to me
Till I espied thee, fair indeed and tall, Under a platane; yet methought less fair, Less winning soft, less amiably mild, Than that smooth watery image:
Eve is saying that Adam is less than what is talked of about him.
So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive.
They find it better to remember that they were never meant to be than to be to help themselves live. Which sounds weird but is like nihilism, a philosophy that goes around the same topic.
so their dreams will not reflect the death of ours;
Hoping that their childrens dreams wont die like theirs did and that they will flurish instead.
for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice
For people who have to do what is needed instead of having a choice to do what they want.
my breath of life
A breath of life is shown in the bible as God giving life to his creations through his breath. So she is steeling that from him?
tiger’s tooth
A tiger is a symbol of power and strength. So their teeth are seen as physical manifestations of that.
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Most of the poem is a quote from a guy who is introduced as an traveller from an antique land. Giving only a little context to who he is and what his significance is.
Which yet survive
The readings have survived over an extended period of time.
visage
A person's face, with reference to the form or proportions of the features.
Where I'll be damned if lightning don't
If lightning doesnt strike he will be mad.
Like a vehicle stuck In reverse, like the monster
Like a vehicle stuck in reverse or in the wrong gear, the monster is stuck in the wrong mindset or behavior of being a monster.
May have a thief's thumb,
The creator of the monster doesnt know where the parts of the monster came from or who they where. Symbolizing that the monster is not just one thing but many, it can be about any one in the world.
A fearful hope
Did they fear what was to come of what ever they where hoping for or did they fear what wouldnt come for what they where hoping for.
Forests were set on fire—but hour by hour They fell and faded—and the crackling trunks Extinguish'd with a crash—and all was black.
An apocalypse type advent where all of Earth of what was flammable had ignited ending up everything being burnt.
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
Like a moment in life that you feel cant be real but it is all to real to be true.
colts
Young male horses
By an old command to find our whereabouts
If sent by an old command it could be reasonable to say that they sent them from the 7 day war.
We had sold our horses in our fathers' time To buy new tractors.
They had sold the horses they had for new technology. This had caused them to wear out from rust and the weather. As where an animal would not.
dale
'Go ahead'
hermano
'Brother'
bomba, still plena
'Bomb' 'Full', it is reminding them that they are still the bomb or that they are still full in the inside.
her tongue can’t lay itself down flat enough for the english language
Certain accents use different parts of the mouth to verbilize their words, English must use a very flat tongue compared to spanish.
english sits in her mouth remixed
English words sit ready to be used but they are 'remixed' by her spanich accent.
so “strawberry” becomes “eh-strawbeddy” and “cookie” becomes “eh-cookie” and kitchen, key chain, and chicken all sound the same.
Her mom doesnt speak with a fluent english accent, she speaks with a spanish one.
Or else find the boy who lit the fire in the first place to see if you can change him
Trying to change someone for who they are can be risky and end up becoming toxic to both parties.
back to a burning house so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him.
Getting in a relationship of trying to fix someones elses life, a bad idea when all that will do is become worse they have to heal on their own.
but getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
To loose something reminds you how much that you like it. As it goes "You dont know how much youll miss something until you loose it".
wait for you to get back up, just so it can kick you in the stomach
Life doesnt wait for you to get your self sourted out after a blow it will continue to attack you. Life doesnt care how you are.
so that nothing but money can be grown
The land has been stripped of everything and is only being used to produce money. A cause of human greed.
eroding the resorts.
Nature is trying to take back whats its.
The mountain’s springs and waterfalls, trickle where they are allowed to flow, and left stagnant elsewhere,
A consequence of what man has done to nature.
It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house.
You should expect for the future, you should remember that time moves on and such a young redwood will grow. It also resembles how it would be foolish to not acknowledge someone young because in a few years they could be someone important.
Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.
As long as this poem has taken life is still going on and happening.
this clutter of soup pots and books
As in the clutter of what life brings?
Trust your heart, and trust your story.
Trust you know you and where youve came from and what youve done.
Trust dreams.
Trust what you want to believe / become.
you never saw before but once.
Signifying the end of your jurny is where you started.
She also found herself liking Kermit a lot more than she'd expected to
As Anji works more on a project she first despised she becomes more kin to kermit. Which sets a preset for what is to come later in the story with the relationship between her and kermit.
If you want the truth, it happened because Anji was feeling lazy
I feel like this an interesting way to start of the story. As it gives little context of what Anji did, it just happened because she was lazy. Which in of its self is another weird action, to have something done because you were lazy.