10 Matching Annotations
- Feb 2021
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promise of the day that shall surely come.
This person has the hope that one day everything is going to be better.
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fragments of an old story float up before me
old memories came to mind
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Can you see how foggy the day is?
I feel like the author is asking if we see how "foggy" the life of this person is.
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amateur psychologist?
sarcasm?
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Something of the same idle notion comes to me to-day, when from the street-window I look on the slow stream of human life creeping past, night and morning, to the great mills.
Nothing has change; everything looks the same.
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What wonder? When I was a child, I used to fancy a look of weary, dumb appeal upon the face of the negro-like river slavishly bearing its burden day after day.
The author is using the river as an example to describe the suffering black slaves suffer and their noticeable urge to request a change.
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tired of the heavy weight of boats and coal-barges.
"tired"=personification.
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The idiosyncrasy of this town is smoke
it's telling us one specific characteristic of this town.
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Irishmen
It's giving us a specific details about a race/culture.
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idiosyncrasy
unusual feature or characteristic of a person or place.
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