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  1. Nov 2023
    1. 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.

    2. 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?

    3. 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?

    1. 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?

    2. 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.

  2. Oct 2023
    1. 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.

    1. 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.

    1. 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.

  3. Sep 2023
    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

    1. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

  4. Aug 2023
    1. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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".

    4. 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.

    1. 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.

    1. 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.

    1. 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.

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    2. 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.