she had rearranged them after she polished them.
I believe the woman puts makeup on her face to cover the bruises on her face. especially the swollen eyes she got. She doesn't want anyone to notice that she is a victim of physical abuse. maybe she wants help but she is afraid or maybe she don't seek help because she's in love with the man who did that to her.
The last time, only two weeks ago, when her swollen eye was still the black and purple color of an overripe avocado, she had rearranged them after she polished them.
her swollen purple and black eyes are signs that she has been abused, domestic violence is a big issue in the family especially for children to see her get a beaten right in front of them is worst.
She spent at least a quarter of an hour on each baller-dancing figurine. There were never tears on her face
all thought the mother was in pain and hurt he never cried in front of her children because she didn't want them to see that she was suffering.
I see myself on the underworld side of that water, the darkness coming in fast, saying all the names I know for a lost land:
I believe she lost a lot of people she loved besides her two daughters. she misses the people she love especially her two daughters who have left. the words she uses seems like he's in deep pain.
I imagine myself at the landward rail of that boat searching for the last sight of a hand.
The author is upset and putting images in her head that one day her two daughters would return back home to her.
I have two daughters. They are all I ever wanted from the earth. Or almost all. I also wanted one piece of ground: One city trapped by hills. One urban river. An island in its element. So I could say mine. My own.
The author describe how before she had daughter, all she ever wanted was to live in a home in which she can call her own sweet place but not that she has 2 daughter, they are their everything and there nothing else she would ever wish after they were born, because her daughter is her complete happiness.
There was nothing of our landscape there Nothing about us at all
these girls were upset to find out that they couldn't learn anything abut their culture in the Colonial School. The school shared nothing about their history background which made them feel strange and upset.
There was nothing left of ourselves Nothing about us at all
the author in this stanza is describing someone who is upset because she feels like something is missing, such that in her school there's nothing that relates to her culture nor were she came from, nothing about her background is shared in school.
Borrowed images willed our skins pale muffled our laughter lowered our voices let out our hems dekinked our hair denied our sex in gym tunics and bloomers harnessed our voices to madrigals
Seems like someone is trying to be someone their not. or the person is pretending to be someone else. this is not her true identity.
War in the east, War in the west, War up north, War down south – War – war –
hate and discrimination don't only exist at one place or town, Conflict is everywhere. "War is everywhere".
Me say war.That until the basic human rights Are equally guaranteed to all, Without regard to race – Dis a war.
The author argues that war will continue to grow if humans don't stop discriminating each other. certain groups of people get treated unfairly, or get discriminated because of their race, or gender, or because of the color of their skin.
Me say war.That until there no longer First class and second class citizens of any nation Until the colour of a man’s skin Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes –
Men who discriminate other men for the color of their skin or for any other reason should stop discriminating each other so there is no longer hate, or bring danger against each other.
Alas, the wretched children ! they are seeking Death in life, as best to have !
the children rather die then live life, they are looking forward to death then to enjoy their life as they can. seems like these children are suffering. Reminds me of the early 1800's were young children from ages 4 and 6 use to work long hours in factories and during that time, today we would confirmed this as child abuse.
“Your old earth,” they say, “is very dreary;” “Our young feet,” they say, “are very weak !”
As someone stated I believe the children are crying about how depressing the world is. They seeing the bad side of the world and getting very sentimental about it.
Do you question the young children in the sorrow, Why their tears are falling so ?
should we question a child what's the reason that they are crying or why ae they even crying?... like if they have no emotions what so ever because they're too young to cry.
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, — And that cannot stop their tears.
the children are crying although they are next to the mother , they making it seem like they are crying for no reason and states that children are over dramatic
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
the children are crying and are very sad.
bells in the town alight with spring make clear the fresh and ancient sound they sing.
the sound of the bell is a sign of letting the town know that Spring season is here and people are also singing of joy including the birds.
Bird feels the enchantment of his wing and in ten fine notes dispels twenty cares. Bells in the town alight with spring
the bells are excited for the Spring season, they are feeling great to the feeling of Spring.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.
She very upset with her father since he was a Nazi I guess, and she had enough, she wants nothing to do with her father, because he's point out as an evil man.
The tongue stuck in my jaw. It stuck in a barb wire snare.
She was afraid to speak to her father. She rather not say anything and keep her words to herself because she didn't want any problems.
I used to pray to recover you.
ok so She is contradicting herself, first she wanted to kill her father but started praying for him when he died wishing for him to return. So now that she killed her father, she regret it?
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes
I believe that Marx is trying to make it clear that people who have struggled before in the past, rather was it a class issue, slave issue or what ever group that have issues with another group, have always done something about it that led to an end or a change to the situation they were going through.
Bourgeois and Proletarians
According to Marxism "the proletariat is the working class, including farmers and low-skilled factory workers. They do not own any means of production. The Bourgeoisie are the capitalist class, the wealthy, who own most of the means of production".
How cold and late it is! Why don’t they come And put him into bed? Why don’t they come?
this guy feels very lonely and wonder when is someone going to come take care of him, he knows he will be left behind at a hospital institute but doesn't like the idea of people being in charge or in control of him since he is disabled.
Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal. Only a solemn man who brought him fruits Thanked him; and then enquired about his soul.
not many care for his return from war but for those who celebrated his return were not that excited to see him only one man showed his appreciation toward the guy with no legs. he thanks the man in the wheel chair for sacrificing his life for the people. he also gave out fruits to him showing his appreciation.
He asked to join. He didn’t have to beg; Smiling they wrote his lie: aged nineteen years.
this man joined the army although he was to young to join he was not rejected but instead accepted to join all though he lied about his age or even if they knew that he was too young to join they accepted him because they were focusing on getting more men no matter if man is underage
Now he will never feel again how slim Girls’ waists are, or how warm their subtle hands
the disabled man is upset and depressed knowing he will never get that same feeling he had with a woman, he will no longer get the opportunity to touch and feel a woman 's body or hand the way he wanted to or done so.
He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,
tin this line it describes a man whos disabled since he is sitting in a wheelchair until it hits night time.
In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature
his view on consciousness is believed to be inherited instead of developed. For example a baby wild animal can be raised at a home with loving kind people taking good care of it but as it grows up it will one day cause danger to the people no matter the good caring it was giving or the kindness that it was surrounded with.
This collective unconscious does not develop individually, but is inherited.
so people the are unconscious of their behavior does not come from learning to be it but besides it is inherited which they bring and relate to their family member genes etc.
and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
although the men on the ship see something like a boy falling out of the cloud, they really didn't want to pay mind to what was going to happen next, for instance it didn't care much to stop and see if the boy that was falling out the cloud would land safely or end up dead, they could care less about the outcome and continued sailing without hesitating
In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
this states that no one is paying mind to a disaster that was happening ene though a ploughman had hear a sound of a splash meaning someone that's have hit the ocean as it landed very badly from the sky.
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood:
looks like some event happened that no one or no children pay mind to, they might knew it happened like what ever bad situation happened near them they didn't care to pay attention to, they continue minding their own business and careless for their surrounding.
About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place
as someone mentioned, human suffering was well understood by past artist.
And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
I believe that "on the pedestal" is referring to the statue in which the pedestal is part of the statue. The statues had words imprinted on it that said " My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings etc." seems like the statue was made for a King or the statue is made in recognition of a King.
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
here it gives out a description of the statue that was half way sunk in the desert. the statue had a head that's frowning with wrinkle lips. its a face of someone but no clue if the face of the statue is either a feminist or manly.
met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . .
here the author is talking from the point of view of a traveler who he met from an antique land and then mentions what the traveler said to him. The traveler had seen a statue and described as having trunkless legs, According to OED, trunkless is described as "Having no trunk; esp. without a body, or severed from the body, as a head". The traveler seen this statue with a pair of legs and no body dug halfway through the sand in the middle of a dessert I believe
But I never like painting. In school I hated Art like anything. And Modern Art I cannot understand. Like Picasso— Why he always show A man with funny shape Head and body all mixed up? I think It is all nonsensical.
Although he mentioned Art as one of his dislike, as someone mentioned, Music and Poetry is Art, in a way they do all relate.
But I never like painting. In school I hated Art like anything. And Modern Art I cannot understand. Like Picasso— Why he always show A man with funny shape Head and body all mixed up? I think It is all nonsensical.
Here the author now mentions another of his dislikes. The same way he doesn't understand poetry the same way he does not understands Art. This man completely change the subject from music compared to poetry and now Art.
I turn on the radio. O Ross Hamilton is my favourite His words so full of meaning “I’ll go out in the night Buy you a dream.”
I believe he likes music better than poetry since he understands music better, well the music that he listens to and enjoys he finds that the words from the music are more meaningful compared to poetry.
I like the music to be sentimental Like at night while dim light in my room,
He likes music that can make you feel emotional, for example music that can make you feel sad or have you in your feelings, such as romantic music, or sadness related.
But still I must admit I don’t like poetry Very much. I like music.
He does not find poetry as interesting as music, therefore he prefers music rather then reading poetry.
When my rooms have been decked out and the flutes sound and the laughter there is loud, let me ever feel that I have not invited thee to my house
Although this man is surrounded by people that are his friends and are happy and having a good time at his home, he continues to feel lonely inside, and reminisces the great moments with his love/wife.
As my days pass in the crowded market of this world and my hands grow full with the daily profits, let me ever feel that I have gained nothing
although this man is living his life or continues to work and makes a profit out of it, he still feels empty inside, because all that matters to him is to be close to the one he loves, his wife.
let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours.
the pain he's going through, he wish it was all a dream.
The poem can start with him walking backwards into a room. He takes off his jacket and sits down for the rest of his life; that’s how we bring Dad back. I can make the blood run back up my nose, ants rushing into a hole. We grow into smaller bodies, my breasts disappear, your cheeks soften, teeth sink back into gums. I can make us loved, just say the word. Give them stumps for hands if even once they touched us without consent, I can write the poem and make it disappear. Step-Dad spits liquor back into glass, Mum’s body rolls back up the stairs, the bone pops back into place, maybe she keeps the baby. Maybe we’re okay kid?
This poem is basically a flash back of an abusive step dad.
you won’t be able to see beyond it. You won’t be able to see beyond it,
this seems like the ending linen of the story but the poem repeats everything in reverse this time and ends how the poem began.
Step-Dad spits liquor back into glass, Mum’s body rolls back up the stairs, the bone pops back into place,
Her Step Dad was an abusive man, who she watched pushed her mom down the stairs and the mother ended pretty bad with broken bones.
The poem can start with him walking backwards into a room. He takes off his jacket and sits down for the rest of his life; that’s how we bring Dad back. I can make the blood run back up my nose, ants rushing into a hole. We grow into smaller bodies, my breasts disappear, your cheeks soften, teeth sink back into gums.
while reading the first 6 line of this poem, it is like watching a movie from the ending back to the beginning. this scene is played in reverse. I can also tell that there was an action of domestic violence involved in these stanza.
In the days of my youth, Father William replied, I remember’d that youth could not last; I thought of the future whatever I did, That I never might grieve for the past.
the old men sets an example of thinking about the future and understand what are your plans in life before you regret your decisions as you get older.
In the days of my youth, Father William replied, I remember’d that youth would fly fast, And abused not my health and my vigour at first That I never might need them at last.
this old man is giving advise to this young man, telling him to enjoy his youth while he can before its too late and he then regrets his past.
How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes.
this shows that great skill gets you rewarded for it or I believe a great outcome out of it.
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
As someone mentioned this is a good example explaining that if you work hard at something, at the end it will all pay off and you will be rewarded for it. In addition I believe this is true because for example if you study a certain subject everyday and never give up on studying, you can actually improve your brain to learn and memorize more details about the subject which helps you score a high grade on upcoming exams.
As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water.
Since Alice got tiny again due to fanning herself with the fan, Alice ends up swimming in her own tears.
‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself,’ said Alice, ‘a great girl like you,’ (she might well say this), ‘to go on crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!’ But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.
Seems like Alice learned how to keep herself positive by talking to herself in a way that will keep her calm instead of crying or being sad. But Alice kept crying (gallons of tears), I guess that Alice was so big that her tears were huge giant tears, that will be able to form the house into a pool because of her huge tears.
Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
The cake had made her grow tall almost like a giant, she grew taller then her original height, but she finally got her hands on the golden key to open the tiny door, although she now couldn't get through the door again. I was wondering why would Alice drink the whole bottle that was labeled "Drink Me" and not even leave some , just in case, which now is the case lol.
‘Well, I’ll eat it,’ said Alice, ‘and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!’
Okay in this stanza it seems like Alice is contradicting herself because before she was worried and afraid to get smaller then the how the bottler got her to be and now she does not care if she got to eat the cake and it made her larger or smaller. I guess Alice does not care if the cake will make her tinier then she is since she has no other choice. Alice just wants to be able to fit under the door since and at this points she just wants to get through the door.
she felt a little nervous about this; ‘for it might end, you know,’ said Alice to herself, ‘in my going out altogether, like a candle
Alice was worried and afraid she would shrink very tiny, and she used the word "like a candle" , she compared herself to a candle meaning she would shrink the same way a candle shrinks or melts away its wick and then suddenly its no longer there and disappears.
so Alice ventured to taste it,
According to this stanza and according to OED (venture) means, To attempt or undertake (something of a dangerous or difficult nature) without assurance of success; to accept or take the risk of (an action, course, or proceeding); to dare to do, make, or take (something), realizing that a risk is being run. †Also with of. So Alice to the risk and her chances in tasting the mysterious drink from the bottle.
However, this bottle was not marked ‘poison,’ so Alice ventured to taste it,
Alice went ahead and drank out of the bottle that was labeled "Drink Me" Because she was certain that it was not poison and was not worried since it was not labeled poison.
Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight,
Finally the fall has ended and Alice landed without getting hurt. Alice still got a sight of the Rabbit and she continue to follow the rabbit.
Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no mice in the air, I’m afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that’s very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?’
As I read this stanza I laughed a little because Alice wish her sister who's afraid of mice to be with her as she was falling down the well although she might bump into a bat in the air and:then Alice compare the bat to a mice because they look alike and she wondered if cats who eat mice would also eat bats since they are similar to each other. I was wondering the same thing when she mentioned this, I wonder if cats would eat a bat, I think maybe if it was wingless haha.
‘I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?’ she said aloud. ‘I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.
Alice was falling down for soo long that she had the time to even think about stuff, like wonder how many miles have she gone down or what will happen next or even fall asleep for a few minutes or so.
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end!
As someone mentioned, Alice was falling down the rabbit hole/ well like it was endless. Either the well was profoundly deep or Alice was falling at a very slow pased or speed.
Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it,
Alice was surprise to see this Rabbit with a waistcoat pocket and a watch to take out of it, she was so curious to know were the Rabbit was heading so quickly so she followed after the Rabbit as it rushed.
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
in this stanza, it seems like the hot weather made Alice very tired that she fell asleep and had a dream that a White Rabbit with pink eyes showed up running near by her.
They answer’d all together: “Buy from us with a golden curl.”
A golden curl meaning just a string of Laura's hair would be good enough for her to get herself a fruit from the goblin, they said..hmmm something about this smells funny to me.
Good folk, I have no coin; To take were to purloin: I have no copper in my purse, I have no silver either, And all my gold is on the furze That shakes in windy weather Above the rusty heather.”
As I mentioned before Laura wants to eat the fruit but she has no money or anything to offer the Goblins.
Good folk, I have no coin; To take were to purloin: I have no copper in my purse, I have no silver either, And all my gold is on the furze That shakes in windy weather Above the rusty heather.”
Looks like Laura is tempted to buy fruits fro. The Goblins but does not have any money to buy the fruit she wants.
Laura stretch’d her gleaming neck Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck, Like a moonlit poplar branch, Like a vessel at the launch
Laura is being described as very interested in trying out one of the fruits...she's really craving or feening to taste the Goblin men fruit.
She thrust a dimpled finger In each ear, shut eyes and ran: Curious Laura chose to linger Wondering at each merchant man.
She who is Lizzie is avoiding the Goblin men fruits while Laura is being the opposite of Lizzie's reaction to the fruits, Layra is just curious and plans on getting closer and having her hands on the fruits that might harm her if she takes and eats the fruit.
“No,” said Lizzie, “No, no, no; Their offers should not charm us, Their evil gifts would harm us.”
Lizzie is trying to avoid herself and Laura from eating the fruit. She knows the fruit would not do them no good but harm them because the fruit is evil. This stanza reminds me of Adam and Eve when Adam and God warn Even not to eat the beautiful evil Apple.
No,” said Lizzie, “No, no, no; Their offers should not charm us, Their evil gifts would harm us.”
In this stanza Lizzie don't care about how good the grapes and fruits might look, and seems worried that Laura might try and eat the Goblins fruits because Laura is too attentive and focus on the grape fruits. Lizzie trying to avoid herself and Laura from trying and buying the fruits.
How fair the vine must grow Whose grapes are so luscious; How warm the wind must blow Through those fruit bushes.”
Laura is amazed by the grapes that look so good to eat and wondering how warm the wind must be for those bushes of grape to grow nice looking juicy graped like those she see that the men Goblins are selling.
One hauls a basket, One bears a plate, One lugs a golden dish Of many pounds weight.
Laura peeps that each Goblin men has a different type of duty, each are carrying some kind of container for the fruit.
Pricking up her golden head: “We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?” “Come buy,” call the goblins Hobbling down the glen.
In this Stanza Lara then picks her head up and warns Lizzie not to buy the Men Goblin fuits because they dont know were those fuits have come from. Laura believes that there has to be something wrong with the fruits that the Goblins are selling.
Laura bow’d her head to hear, Lizzie veil’d her blushes: Crouching close together In the cooling weather, With clasping arms and cautioning lips, With tingling cheeks and finger tip
Seems like 2 female Goblins or Maids name Laura and Lizzie are sitting together next to each other and they seem embarrassed or shy about something since Laura bowed her head and Lizzie was blusinh, in this stanza it doesn't clearly state why but they are embarrass or afraid or even shy to do w.e they were planning to do.
Currants and gooseberries, Bright-fire-like barberries, Figs to fill your mouth, Citrons from the South, Sweet to tongue and sound to eye; Come buy, come buy.”
As I mentioned before these Goblins want to attract others or lets say Maids into buying their wonderful fruits.
Morns that pass by, Fair eves that fly; Come buy, come buy: Our grapes fresh from the vine, Pomegranates full and fine,
In this stanza the Goblins mention Morns and eves that pass and fly by, meaning that every day in the morning through evening they are available selling fresh fruits.
Dates and sharp bullaces, Rare pears and greengages, Damsons and bilberries, Taste them and try: Currants and gooseberri
Seems like the Globlins are trying their best to pull up customers and sell their fruits. They are describing the fruits like the best fruits in the world; like they are unique fruits dreamy like and begging the Maids to try it out to taste.
Crab-apples, dewberries, Pine-apples, blackberries, Apricots, strawberries;— All ripe together
Rossetti here uses a rhyme scheme, the names of the fruits she writes here all rhyme together. She also mentions that these fruits are all good and ready to eat
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
I believe that John feels lonely in this world and feels like love or loving someone is worthless because love always comes to an end and never last.
faery power
Imaginary creature or supernatural being with magical power.
When I behold, upon the night’s starred face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows with the magic hand of chance;
I believe that John thinks that he wont ever have the chance to describe his talent with what his hands can do such like writing romantic poetry. He is afraid the he wont be able to share with the world of what he's cable and potentially of doing.
When I have fears that I may cease to be
The author is afraid of death and no longer existing in life, he is afraid of dying.
That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins red life might stream again,
To my understanding, in this stanza the author is saying that someone or someone that is dead would wish to be alive again. They would rather have blood streaming through their veins and for the heart to be able to function meaning they want to feel and be alive rather then being a corpse thats dried up inside with no blood streamming through their vein.
And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
In this stanza icy silence of the tomb means that is cold and quite were the dead are buried. Haunt mean that the place is being haunted and something is creeping in the tomb late at night when its cold.
This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
I believe the author is saying that he is able to move his hands because he is alive and that he wouldnt be able to move his warms hands if he was cold, cold as in dead.
Have ye leisure, comfort, calm, Shelter, food, love’s gentle balm? Or what is it ye buy so dear With your pain and with your fear?
In this stanza it sounds like a question to the working class, Wondering wether the working class are living stable or uncomfortable and can they even afford to buy shelter and food they crave. Do labor pay them off good and decent, I dont think so.
The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears.
As someone mentioned in this quote Shelly is reffering to the Bourgeoisie vs the Proletariat. Seems like the working class which are the Proletarians are working there butt off while its mostly benefiting the wealthy people, known as the Bourgeoisie.
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay; Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed;
In this quote, it mentions that there are laws, sanguine laws which according to Oxford English Dictionary sanguine means Causing or delighting in bloodshed; bloody, sanguinary. Now poet. or rhetorical. To my understanding sanguine laws are bloody laws that are laws that are relatable to anything that has to do with a sin, like satanity. These are laws mentioned to be satanic like devilish actions are required and these laws are anticrist I guess. Christless, Godless and book sealed, meaning these laws dont believe in God, or apposed Jesuscrist and are atheist.
A people starved and stabbed in th’ untilled field; An army, whom liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;
Liberticide, According to Oxford English Dictionary this means "Destruction or removal of liberty. In this sentence it seems like there is a group of people who are on a field looking for food because they are starving. These people have no freedom I guess because they are also getting brutally beaten and stabbed by others who have power and conroll over them. This reminds me of slavery.
A people starved and stabbed in th’ untilled field; An army, whom liberticide and prey
seems like people have died from hunger and sadly they were stabbed by an army in a field were there is no food/ crop or finished land similar to a deserted land.
Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
The monster is telling Frankenstein that he should of been like Adam the innocent guy whom God, someone of a higher power created, buf instead he is like the fallen angel, the devil such as Lucifer who does bad and cruel things to people and the world. But as I mentioned before the monster is explaining to Dr Frankenstein that is his fault for not paying no mind to him. He argues that he is miserable and he wants Dr Frank to make him happy or satisfy him with something that will take him out of his misery and he will then stop the madness and obey to do good again.
How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.”
In this quotation the monster threatened Dr Frankenstein saying that he should take responsibilities for his actions and attend him in his issues or the condition that Dr Frank have left him with and he will then stop murdering people; but if Dr Frank ignores him and lets him be miserable then the monster would continue killing innocent people including his close friends and those he love most.
And, oh! That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!”
By reading this sentence, I assume Frankenstein's Monster have killed innocent human beings and Frankenstein is very angry and upset at his Monster for murdering others. Frank wishes he can bring those people his monster had killed back to life.
“Devil,” I exclaimed, “do you dare approach me? And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head? Begone, vile insect! Or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust!
Frankenstein seems like he's afraid for the monster he created to come near him. He does not like the Monster approaching him what so ever. Frankenstein wants the Monster to leave his sight because he is disgusted and regrets to have created the Monster. He's also not contented with the Monster with whom he created.
abhorred
Abhorred, According to Oxford English Dictionary it means to horrify, disgust, repel.
I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
As I mentioned before he explains that he has wasted 2 years of hard work in creating this monstrous that ended upsetting him. He regrets that he kept himself up and never rest his body just to finish this thing that resulted in regrets. He feels like all of this work was a waste of time. He was upset that it was something he desired to finish up and his plan was not accomplished as he wanted it to be. He was not satisfied with his finish creation, instead he became afraid and taunted by this creature he on his own created.
How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form?
Victor Frank. seems to see his very hard work of devotion in creating this monster worthless and a waste of time. it ended up upsetting him because it was not what he expected it to be or maybe he just regretted that it gave this thing life since it scared him once it came to life
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
"It was on a dreary night", according to OED, dreary means cruel, dire, horrid, grievous. Obs meaning it was a horrible or horrifying night on November that he regretted the long hours and his waste of time of the monstrous he created. He was horrified and afraid of the monster he created once it came to life.
In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment.
As I mentioned before he mentions again on this run on sentence that he is very dedicated to his creativity in creating this monster and attending to the details meaning only focus on his creation and not giving it a rest until his job is done.
My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless and almost frantic impulse urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.
Victor Frank.s seems to be very concentrated on his work of creating this Monster who he then named it after his name. Victor Frank. describes to be very focus on the creation of his monster that he lost all souls meaning he lost himself and not even paying mind to his own self physically and mentally.
These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.
Victor Frankenstein is very devoted to his thoughts of creating this monster and bringing death back to life. According to OED unremitting ardour it means working and continuing an action or activity without stopping nor resting (ardour) his desire and passing which is to finish and accomplish his goal of creating that monster
A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me
Victor Frankentine believes that if he creates something that comes to life, it would make him glad because it will make him feel like he's someone from a higher power who can have someone to obey him because his creation is there to serve him and only him.
“Educate women like men,” says Rousseau, “and the more they resemble our sex the less power will they have over us.” This is the very point I aim at. I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.
Wollstonecraft believe that if women were getting the same education they can sure do similar duties a man does and if they get the same ability to work like them then men wont have to feel like they are superior to women or believe that women are weak to do similar tasks.
if girls were allowed to take sufficient exercise and not confined in close rooms till their muscles are relaxed and their powers of digestion destroyed. To carry the remark still further, if fear in girls, instead of being cherished, perhaps, created, were treated in the same manner as cowardice in boys, we should quickly see women with more dignified aspects.
Women back then didn't have enough opportunities like men and education was one thing women were not allowed to get. Wollstonecraft was explaining that if education was available for women then these women could show men that they can learn how to manage a job and show men that they shouldn't have to be treated differently and accept the fact that they deserve to be treated with equal rights as men.
whilst women, on the contrary, have no other scheme to sharpen their faculties. It is not business, extensive plans, or any of the excursive flights of ambition, that engross their attention; no, their thoughts are not employed in rearing such noble structures
Since women don't have the option to look for a job or have one or create their own business or even be employed and get educated, they only prepare themselves for marriage and their only goals in life is to soon become some one's wife. Women only plan to look beautiful for men and in hope to get married soon and please their husband as that is the only way society taught women to be.
So ludicrous, in fact, do these ceremonies appear to me, that I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude to lift a handkerchief, or shut a door, when the LADY could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.
Wollstonecraft finds it ridiculous for men to think that women are so weak that they feel the need to help them do the simplest stuff such like lifting a chair or shutting a door when a woman can in fact do these stuff on her own without having a issue or needing the help of a man because its really unnecessary.
Confined then in cages, like the feathered race, they have nothing to do but to plume themselves, and stalk with mock-majesty from perch to perch.
confined in cages meaning that women don't have their own freedom and are being controlled by men and viewed as beautiful birds that are just there to entertain them. In other words men are in control and believe that a woman should please them when their told to and since these women lack in knowledge and have only learn how to please a man since young, they believe that this situation is something normal and how life is suppose to be.
That woman is naturally weak,
This is what many people believe especially men in general because they see women below them and inferior to them and physically weak and view women as if they are a child and not smart enough or responsible enough to have their own responsibilities. In fact there are plenty of women in this planet who are very successful in life without needing the help of a man. There are also women who indeed work hard enough to take care of herself and her family.
Pleasure is the business of a woman’s life
I think Wollstonescraft is referring to pleasure as a woman viewed by society of mostly men as something that needs to do everything for a men that will keep him satisfied; as if men are their boss and they are employe's that need to obey such as to cook and prepare the food in the house and clean the whole house and watch over their children and iron all his clothes and make his bed because a men should not be allowed to do all that stuff since they are the ones that work hard out of home and bring food to the table yet women work as hard as men but jobs were not offered to women. Women were treated so unfairly, the only job available that women would get paid was from prostitution or just working as her husband assistant when necessary.
They clothed me in the clothes of death, And taught me to sing the notes of woe. And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury, And are gone to praise God and his Priest and King, Who make up a heaven of our misery.” Edit Search for:
The young boy is exlaning how his parents who have dressed him up in clothing that was ment for labor is the same way to send him to a place to die because Labor at his age was just too abusive and was putting this poor child life at risk.
Then naked & white, all their bags left behind, They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind. And the Angel told Tom, if he’d be a good boy, He’d have God for his father & never want joy.
I believe that the young boys have become Angels rising into the clouds and into the gates of heaven where paradise lies. However, the angel told Tom that if he behaves then he would not have to ever worry about asking and wishing for joy again because he will be in good hands, who is God the heavenly father making sure he is fine.
As Tom was a-sleeping he had such a sight! That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack, Were all of them locked up in coffins of black; And by came an Angel who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins & set them all free; Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing they run, And wash in a river and shine in the Sun.
The speaker is describing a young boy by the name of Tom who falls asleep because hes all tired from working in the Chimney and then the young boy has a dream that takes him and other young worker from the same place they do labor, to being locked up inside a black coffin which means that they have died. This mean that the poor young boys who have been suffering from labor have lead them to their deaths but then suddenly after they died an angel happens to open new doors for them into a different world or dimension that is filled with joy and freedom, no suffering but endlesly happiness.
And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain?
I believe the speaker is wondering who would create such a thing such as a Tiger that only brings us fear that makes our heart jump once we see one. The speaker is thinking like what the heck was the creator of this animal even thinking when he created this monster that people seem to view as.
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
The speaker is describing the Tiger as a mysterious or interesting big animal that walks through the forest at night. The speaker also questions himself who was to create an animal such as a Tiger which could scare you or fright you or even bring you fear but at the same time be created perfectly beautiful such as a wonderful piece of art.
Little Lamb God bless thee. Little Lamb God bless thee.
this line from the poem shows the reader that God had something to do with the Lamb existence and how its wonderful life on earth was because it was blessed by (God), someone of a higher power.
Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Gave thee life & bid thee feed. By the stream & o’er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing wooly bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice!
The speaker wants to know where the lamb come from but has an idea that the existence of the lamb has to be from someone that gave it life, someone who has the power to create life. The speaker also describes the lamb as it was made perfect in its own way and has been provided with (delight), such as food or clothing. Clothing provided to the lamb is its on natural cotton fur attach to its body.
and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
According to Adichie "The Danger of a single story", Adichie mentions a brief description of what you call stereotypes. For example "there are people that believe that Nigerians don't read" and Adichie explained how this was not true. Even if this was true, she argues that if books were available or affordable then they would read. Adichie also believes that it is wrong for one to hear or just know about a single story of another person or country because as I mentioned before, it leads us into misunderstanding others. It also can give us the wrong idea of judging others that we might label as the Norm of life because of a single story known and put into our minds. In addition its always two side of a story either positive or negative just matters how u view it.
I’ve always felt that it is impossible to engage properly with a place or a person without engaging with all of the stories of that place and that person. The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar.
Yes my exact thoughts, this is another example of people not being able to engage with others normally but view or treat others in a different matter. Maybe a single story have giving us the wrong impression about a person because of a single story that blocked us from recognizing that we are equal rather then vieving others as a single character from a single story.
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
I agree that if people just know or read a single story about another person or country then they could view others of the same race as the same character described in the single story they read or learned about. I belive a single story can lead us into misunderstanding the life of others and thats were we are wrong in the fact that we might judge others of a certain culture or race in a negative way just because a character of the same race was described as the bad one in a single story read. Over all a single story has the ability to give us the wrong impression of the life of others and thats whats wrong about people who view it that way.