In the broad world, the more we know something, the more ambiguous it becomes and we understand it less.

cyborg identity

There are numerous instances of environmentalist movements that are primarily focused on preserving this idealized “nature” instead of considering what is actually best for the environment.

Time spent in Nature has long been seen as an essential element of human existence.

It has to do with music, culture, philosophy and literature. This thought process includes the ways we imagine ourselves living together, and everyone’s relation to each other and all other beings.

Does a non-Indian have the authority to do so?

“namaste”.

She told us that she taught many different styles and practices of yoga

Colleges host yoga classes all of the time.

good

We then become ingrained in the ideology of what it means to have liberty in the capitalist-American views.

It is said that to be born an American is to be born free

This is partly achieved by the ideology ensuring

We are expected to carry out certain ideologies even before birth

differentiated

she wants the difference to be embraced.

White, heterosexual, financially-sound men are at the top of society’s pyramid

process begins at a young age

Everyone wants to be aligned with the “best” or the “top.”

if you are good enough, pretty enough, sweet enough, quiet enough, teach the children to behave, hate the right people, and marry the right men

sisterhood

imperative

In 2017

Through this identification, boys learn to sexually desire other women instead of their mothers’, and repress their incestuous feelings.

in psychoanalytic theory, literature is an “indirect” platform for humans to convey their repressed desires, feelings, and drives.

Like dreams, literature can also function as a platform for unconscious desires to come to fruition.

early foundations of psychoanalytic theory suggest that the true nature of the human mind is only accessible by indirect means, such as dreams.

Allusiveness in poetry is one of several critical issues

What then if a poet finds he cannot take so much for granted in a more recondite context and rather than write informatively, supplies notes?

"ballad."

There is no reason why Donne might not have written a stanza in which the two kinds of celestial motion stood for two sorts of emotion at parting.

Having drunk a pint of beer at luncheon‑beer

This is the grand secret for finding readers and retaining them: let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

The poem belongs to the public.

There is a sense in which an author, by revision, may better achieve his original intention.

In this respect poetry differs from practical messages

A poem does not come into existence by accident.

But it seems doubtful if this claim and most of its romantic corollaries are as yet subject to any widespread questioning.

the supernatural tension of the nervous system lessened

expedients

T——

At first, the novelty and alarm kept him waking

It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her footsteps from Uncle Tom’s cabin.

What pleasure is it that he is handsome, and smart, and bright?

tranquillized

transfixed

ingenuity

ails

good-natured and kindly

Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky

impudent

I’ll think the matter over, and talk with my wife

Natchez

It don’t look well, now, for a feller to be praisin’ himself

candid

By Jupiter

young ‘un

deformity and distortion

rheumatism

contemplatively

Orleans—‘t

transcribe

He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world.

P——

A National Confidential Council, to be held once in three years;

Every people should be the originators of their own designs, the projector of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny—the consummation of their desires.

Are we willing to try them? Are we willing to raise ourselves superior to the condition of slaves, or continue the meanest underlings, subject to the beck and call of every creature bearing a pale complexion?

Would there be an equality here between the children of these two families?

Our fathers are their coachmen, our brothers their cookmen, and ourselves their waiting-men. Our mothers their nurse-women, our sisters their scrub-women, our daughters their maid-women, and our wives their washer-women.

We live in society among men, conducted by men, governed by rules and regulations.

Deity.

The colored races are highly susceptible of religion

we are determined to be understood by all

We believe in the universal equality of man, and believe in that declaration of God's word, in which it is there positively said, that "God has made of one blood all the nations that dwell on the face of the earth."

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name;--the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new.

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day.

Greatness appeals to the future.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

I suppose no man can violate his nature.

a great soul has simply nothing to do.

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

Their virtues are penances.

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.

If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass?

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations,

Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events

Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee, In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night, Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-kill’d game, Falling asleep on the gather’d leaves with my dog and gun by my side.

it is just as lucky to die

I guess the grass is itself a child

How could I answer the child?

And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers,

The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,

I am satisfied — I see, dance, laugh, sing;

You shall not look through my eyes

The smoke of my own breath,

The atmosphere is not a perfume

I loafe and invite my soul

There is a lot to be considered

There are many ways to anthologize early American Literature.

We do not claim to have a “perfect” or “complete” representation of American literature.

this anthology asks us to consider what it means for literature to be “American.”

(such as films and other references)

important representations

This anthology provides specific details and insights into multiple texts from diverse authors

It provides insight into what has happened in the past

revisited

It affords readers the opportunity to explore various texts in relation to other works, their historical context, and the ever-shifting definition of American Literature.