Last night, while I lay thinking here,
SETTING: speaker is in bed at night.
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Whatif I don't grow talle? Whatif my head starts getting smaller?
fear of being physically strange
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I lay thinking here,
the poem is written in the eyes of a child. The narrator is young enough to be in school and still growing, so elementary age makes sense. They are also aware of possible marital troubles, and tougher concepts such as war. However, they are young enough to have an imaginative fear such as green hair growing on their chest.
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crawled inside my ear and pranced and partied all night long and sang their same old Whatif song
they seem like oompa loompas or whos. Nevertheless the whatifs seem alive and separate from the narrator. They crawl inside because they are outside thoughts, and come from a different place only at night. It's implied that the Whatifs are regular occurrences at night because the narrator doesn't seem confused by them, just annoyed and affected.
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Whatif they start a war? Whatif my parents get divorced?
war/divorce. Both are catastrophic to a child.
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Whatif I flunk that test? Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
thoughts of embarrassment
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Whatif I start to cry? Whatif I get sick and die?
thoughts of being harmed/ injury
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Whatif I get beat up? Whatif there's poison in my cup?
thoughts about injury
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Whatif I'm dumb in school? Whatif they've closed the swimming pool?
Every other line follows a shorter/longer pattern. the first "A" is always shorter in syllables than the next "A."
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Whatif
Whatif follows an AABB rhyme scheme throughout the poem throughout the entire poem. Here/ear, then/again.
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Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head One of uslifted something from it, and leaving forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in thenostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-grey hair.
she slept with his dead body every night. ew
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The man himself lay in the bed.
homer's dead body
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He walkedright through the house and out the back and was not seen again
Tobe left so fast lol
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And of Miss Emily for some time
After she poisons Homer, she does not go out anymore
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she had grown fat and her hair was turning grey.
she was suddenly unrecognizable
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And, as we hadexpected all along, within three days Homer Barron was back in town.
Homer left when the cousins came, and when everyone managed to get the cousins to leave, he came back
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So we were surprised when Homer Barron-the streets had been finished some timesince-was gone
he stuck around for sometime after finishing the streets and then he suddenly left
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Miss Emily with her head high
she was so prideful that she chose to stay with Homer, even though he established that he likes men.
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Poor Emily”
"Poor emily" keeps returning. She's a pitiful figure at this point, she just can't catch a break
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the whispering began
gossip
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Presently we began to see him and Miss Emily onSunday afternoons driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays fromthe livery stable.
he and emily began to see each other
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we
written from the point of view from one of the people living in town, explains why some of the mysteries are not explained
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After aweek or two the smell went away.
author is purposefully not telling what the smell was
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ut were not received,
they were ignored
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curiosity to seethe inside of her house
she's a mystery
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After herfather's death she went out very little
the reason why she isolated herself^
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Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.
She's very out of touch with what's going on in the outside world.
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dry and cold
disdainful
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china-painting lessons
Miss Emily's career- china painting is delicate and she is still painted as very frail and delicate. Someone tough or overbearing would be less likely to paint china, so it shows that she, at the very least had a lot of skill and attention to detail
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seventies
1870s
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had once been white
the wording is showing that she was really old
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monument
she was an important figure
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