This part is, at least to me, a clear Zombie moment in the poem, a corpse planted and sprouted; dead, buried, and come yet again alive.

"neither Living nor dead" is a Zombie moment in the story as Zombies are creatures who are dead and brought back to life but not technically nor fully dead or alive.

This line is a Zombie moment in the poem, "There is shadow under this red rock". Zombies are living dead, shadows of life.

This part seems to have that theme of the dislocated and relocated in the poem since "Pause" is a cue, a splice almost in the poem pausing the rest of the poem, dislocating the reader, and then delving us back into the poem, relocating the reader.

Lines like this one throughout the poem, which seem almost abruptly shortened sentences, read to me as "isolate flecks" or scattered bits and pieces of something more.

The repetition throughout the whole poem, like here, makes the story feel fragmented and collage-like; like the words are being cut out of papers and taped together to make a collage or a painting.

I think this part is trying to say that control is lost; and, furthermore, I think this part is trying to say that without control things can become dangerous. I thin this connects again with the poem's references to nature.

I am not too sure what this part of the poem means and or is trying to say but, it seems like the poem has a lot of references to the earth and residue. Perhaps the poem's references to the earth is to mention the planet's disasters and compare them to humanity?

I think this line, "destined to hunger until we eat filth" is addressing the greed of society. It feels like what this part of the poem is saying is that we humans, the "degraded prisoners", are always going to want more than we have until one day we have nothing.

This part feels to me like it is saying that once the mind is strengthened, everything will be easier. This part reminded me of Philip Levine's "They Feed They Lion" because of the indication that the residue of hard times is power where it did not exist before.

Lines such as "Most various man, cut down to spring no more" and "Strive not to speak, poor scattered mouth" and even the words such as "silenced;" and "empty" seem to bring to light the theme of confinement, a theme of restriction or lack of power as the line "what power has brought you low," itself appears to ask.

"death", "lack of love"; there's a theme here of ghosts, the absence of love, the haunting of that ghost of love that drives people to "[make] friends with death".

I feel like there is definitely a sort of haunting here, the doubt haunts. Almost like in this thought the narrator is stuck, knowing not what to do. And not only is it the actual doubt that haunts, but also the helplessness that comes with doubt and not-knowing.

There's the same motif or theme of haunting in these lines of what was once and what is now. Additionally the line "The witch that came...was once the beauty Abishag" reminds me of the lines "Here there is death...Here where the dull sun shines" from Robinson's "The Dead Village" because of the thought impossibility.

I found this line interesting for the comparisons. Spiders often bring fear or are scary, whereas flowers aren't and are instead nice and pleasant.

On the wing = on the edge. A bird on it's wing can't fly, a bird on it's wing is grounded. Is this part of the poem suggesting that a new town being started is grounding the old town, that the people are becoming flightless in a new and strange place? As in saying that in rebuilding, a lot can be lost while also created and found?

"What comes of all your visions and your fears?" I read this as it saying and asking: what do we do as a result of a vision or a fear, do we ever do anything at all because of a dream or a fear? Or do we do nothing to achieve a vision or dream because of a fear we can rewrite away?

Wow. This part really stuck out to me. I read the line as almost saying that when music (as in humanity, life, connection and faith in the world) is lost, so is all else. I thought this part was beautifully written.

I am not sure if I am misreading these lines but, this reminds me of "They Feed They Lion" by Phillip Levine because of what we discussed in class about the poem mentioning the residue giving rise to something new; here the line says "what is love but a rose that fades" and the line almost seems to imply that there's power still after the love fades, after a rose vanishes there's still beauty and love.

"It takes life to love life", I'm a bit confused on what this is saying.

This part is quite literally referring to perspective and, for that, this part reminded me of when Henry was watching St.Gaudens admire the cathedral in "The Dynamo and the Virgin" by Henry Adams, because he knew they did not see the same thing; they did not have the same perspectives.

Water and fire; opposites. "Fire of the end begin to burn in the west", this seems almost as though it were referring to culture and "progress", fire could be inspiration and "begin to burn in the west" could mean inspiration beginning to travel toward progress. Perhaps this part means adjusting in perception of the world?

This is poetic. I am confused on the "crying for rest" and "water is crying to me", could it mean frustration and giving up, or tiredness and determination? Perhaps both?

This part reminds me of the reading by Henry Adams "The Dynamo and the Virgin" for the similar opinion that book-based education fails to teach rather than succeed.

This seems subjective and judgmental of American culture, implying that it is common in American culture to doubt and obstruct possibilities; to be negative and closed-minded.

"Other men saw something quite different, and no one saw the same unit of measure," this part seems to be stating the matter of perspective and how people can have similar perspectives or ideas but not the same, as the quote by Susane Colasanti goes, "No two people can see the world in the same way."

In so little time, with no map, or clue, or idea of a worst-case scenario we humans took the leap into a whole "new universe" of technology and new levels of science that as has been previously mentioned, became a sort of new faith or brought forth new morals and ways of thinking; perhaps leading to a more optimistic future, or perhaps a more chaotic one.

This part, "Earth is eating trees", could be highlighting a problem. "Earth is eating trees", may be mirroring the world's self destructiveness, and further yet through the line "Come home, Come home!" showing a sense of fright of that issue of destruction and hopelessness being that Earth was mentioned and controlling Earth is out of human control.

The first part "From my car passing under the stars" shows the image of being made small as from such a distance things become small. The later part mentioning "They Lion" shows the exact the opposite, being that Lions often are associated with being big and powerful and so the image then becomes not of being made small but of growing in size and in power..

The repetition of "They Lion grow" seems to speak to a sort of rebirth or sprouting of power. Lion is figurative for being strong, leader, brave. The juxtaposition of this line against others such as "Of industrial barns, out of rain.." seems to be telling of something surprising or shocking, perhaps new found bravery, acquisition of power, or faith and or hope.

The beginning line here "Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter", seems filled with judgement and emotion, perhaps apathy?