So was he ever their or was she just letting prejudice stop her but then after she realized that if she just ignores it then it won't stop her?

So she finally overcame prejudice by just going through him so its almost like he was never there

Why is the air absent and does this mean that everything is now calm?

The incubus is a evil person who goes after women so this is prejudice towards women.

Is she settling the dispute between her and prejudice by settling the fair

She is collecting the things that she came with and is about to leave

She is referring to herself as the wind that comes out of nowhere and she is about to release her anger

Is the inspiration the ecstasy of woe she was talking about?

This gives like a dark doomsday scene feeling

The mists refer to the prejudice almost rising up and everything is becoming clear for her to pass

Does the this refer to her adrenaline she has because she's mad?

This reminds me of a moment when she's had enough so she stands their for a minute and then she's about to release her furry

What does she mean by saying vacate bunker hill?

What monument is she talking about and does this mean she got past it and this is a monumental moment?

She wasn't able to change prejudice mind

So did she accomplish in getting past prejudice or not?

Why does she switch tenses to being in the future

She begged at first and now she is begging again because she has no other choice

Why does he not wanna move? This represents how prejudice never goes away

Why did prejudice get mad when he's the problem

She tried to fight off prejudice with fighting it but maybe she does not mean literally

This implies that she started fighting him off

Why would she dance around the prejudice?

Is her passion anger possibly?

When it says he sat like a fool I think this represents how the prejudice is just there and don't care and they don't mind being in the way

Biblical allusion but what does it mean?

The mountain winds represent the atmosphere that the prejudice is giving off

She had no other choice but to go this way and she was trying to overcome it soon

The word colossal shows how big it is and maybe the word mule represents how slow it is

How can you reason quietly, does this mean she just didn't speak?

The prejudice is not moving at all and this seems to represent how it don't care about other people

From it saying that it smiled at her this seems to me that it is almost like mocking her

So the prejudice is in her way and she cant get by because of it

Why does she only want it to move for a bit and not forever and why is she begging it?

Huge and high are characteristics of a mountain so maybe the prejudice is the mountain?

She is trying now to get prejudice to move

By her saying that it sat all across the road this implies that its everywhere

I think that by her using the word hulking this implies that it was a big problem and a nuisance

What is it that she is carrying?

Why does she say her strength does this mean she can only handle so much?

So her path implied that she had somewhere important to be

She has important business to attend to because she could not wait.

She was stopped completely in her tracks by prejudice?

By saying she ran against prejudice it implies that she was going fast but then she was suddenly stopped

What is the importance of mentioning that other people have to do things too?

I was correct she does have something to do and she does seem to be busy

What are the things she has to do and she sounds like a busy person

The mountain represents the struggle she has to face by climbing it

What is the obstacle she will be facing?

The golden door maybe represents an opportunity for the people and the lamp represents a light or hope for the people.

She is trying to help people and she wants to help them

Some people don't want them but others do want them maybe?

She is saying to fear no more and come and be free.

Sounds like this woman is a helper for people who don't have a lot.

Is she saying to keep your history but come here and keep your stories going?

Is this referencing New York maybe?

She is well known and she welcomes all people

People are coming from other countries to her and the torch is her beacon and people see it as a refuge

Does the lightning mean she is mighty in power?

A woman with a torch reminds me of the Statue of Liberty

Do the gates represent something that she cant get to in life because the gates are blocking it.

Is this referring to a giant Greek creature?

When it says not like the brazen giant of Greek fame. Does this mean that its not big or maybe its not noticeable

Something that is giant, it could represent something this person is facing

He ends the poem with describing the process of making the shirt and he ends the poem with the word shirt just how the poem title is shirt.

Is he talking about the name on the tag of the shirt?

All these things make up whats on a shirt.

Is this the description of the work that it took to make the shirt?

How did they cull the cost and quality and what is the deeper meaning behind that?

The feeling when you put one a new shirt

Did Irma make his clothes, and why is she inspecting the shirt?

Who is Irma, is she a slave?

Why does be capitalize the word Black and what does the descendant have to do with the poem?

He went from the 1920s to the 1800s talking about slavery. What is the significance?

He is specifically now speaking of someone in particular

This is the process of the material of the other shirts being shipped maybe?

These are all the positions of the people who make the clothes, and it reminds me of when he mentioned all the different fabrics.

The looms are the machines that make the clothing

He keeps mentioning things that are Scottish, could he be Scottish?

Heraldry is a display and study of armorial bearings

Why would he be calling the Scottish workers savages?

Was Ossian a big influence for him maybe?

These are different fabrics and maybe each of them represent something more significant?

When he says major chord is he talking about something very important?

He is referencing the rhyme of the poem to the stitching of pockets on pants of how it is organized

This is a machine used to make clothes

He lighting up the moment with something nice

He is referencing how this one guy jumped off the Brooklyn bridge and he is referencing what his shirt looked like to his clothes

The wind is filling his clothes up while he is falling

He gives the imagery of him being like a bird and flying out of the nest.

He is on fire and he now has to jump out himself

He lifted his arms up and dropped her.

There was an emotional thing between these two folks. Maybe this was his wife or something

She was scared to let go

When he says enter a streetcar he is maybe giving the imagery of how people fell onto cars and they did not survive?

The only thing people could do were jump out the window and he describes the boy as helping them

This is how she had to escape was falling out of the building

Because of the bad safety regulations their was no fire escape route

Someone people were helping but others were not

He is describing what people saw from the fire

He is describing the bad conditions of the workplace

Those who lost their lives were because the safety regulations at the time were not good

This seems to be a calling for a form of a union for the workers

He is referencing the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire that took place

He seems to be talking about working a lot since he mentions a union

This reminds me of a business man who wears cuffs on his wrist

He keeps mentioning clothing, and I think the clothing represent his feelings he is carrying around, like maybe guilt?

So does he mean that they are all working while one person is being benefited?

So I think he is trying to talk about the struggles that the Koreans and Malaysians face.

Why is he mentioning Koreans and Malaysians? What is the significance of this?

Does this represent his scars that are internal and nobody else can see them?

It sounds like he is carrying something around on him and he is just going in circles and he isn't able to overcome it.

Does the shirt represent the weight that he is carry on him?

Theirs a wind that is bringing all these bad things maybe? Why is the wind so bad though?

If the bush is already burning does that mean that it never stops burning?

Is he feeling a burning sensation in his nose because if you breathe in smoke it will burn.

He uses dragon smoke to describe how there is a big cloud of smoke maybe.

It's almost like the forest is about to catch on fire but it barely does because it's on the edge of it.

What are the significance of poppie flowers? And does he want them to burn?

Alcohol can burn easily so why does he talk about fire so much?

He is speaking about night time again because he already mentioned dusk. So why is night time important?

A rainbow usually has gold at the end and a rainbow represents joy and if a tiger is a wild animal that can harm you is he saying that it looks innocent on the outside but when you come closer it can hurt you?

Quicksilver is a metal and so is he describing his heart as metal and silent?

Why does he use a banker's cigar when that has nothing to do with the Vietnam War?

He uses another way of describing glowing because he used it first in the foxfire and now he used it to describe a cigar burning and glowing.

If you dip something in gasoline, then you must want it to catch fire. So is he desiring for a fire to start.

Cattails catch fire easily because they are very dry and it makes it easy to burn.

Oil on water isn't good because the oil will contaminate the water and if fire gets on it then it may become out of control.

How can dry ice burn?

What is he watching burn? And why does he refer to it as a she

He might be carrying a burden with him.

If he describes standing with his hands does this mean that his world feels upside down?

Something in his life is growing dark.

So fire is dancing around this girl? And why would he describe the fire as dancing? Is the fire out of control?

When he says skirt of flames I imagine the fire is all around him.

Why does he refer to a valley as being shaped like a thigh?

Foxfire is a light emitted by fungi on decaying wood so could he be the wood that is decaying and the girl is his light in his life.

Why is there an indent in this line and what type of memory is he remembering.

So this is a memory that he cant let go because it's stuck in his head. But what does he mean by daybreak?

Could this be a tragic memory of a girl he saw in Vietnam? Or could he be referring to a memory as a girl?

Could this be him talking about his memories of the Vietnam War?

Who is disappearing? And could this be a person who he loves, that is disappearing with him?

This is what happens when you don't go after your dream. It builds up all this preasure inside of you and then you explode with your dream.

He refers to a dream like a heavy load because it weighs you down because its always on your mind.

Does your dream just drag along with you because you don't pursue it?

He describes the way you feel when you accomplish your dreams as if it is syrupy and sweet.

He's asking do you pursue your dreams and if you do are your dreams sweet and do they crust and sugar over?

When you put off your dreams, it reminds you later in the way of stinking rotten meat.

He is referring to how you run from your dreams?

When he uses the word fester like a sore he is using this to describe what happens when you put off your dreams, he is describing it as the feeling and desire for the dream become more intensified as a sore being untreated.

He's comparing a dream drying up to a raisin in the sun.

This relates back to the last line, and he's stating that when you put off a dream it dries up.

I think he's asking a rhetorical question. I think he already knows what happens but he's saying what happens when you put off a dream? And how does it affect that dream?

I think that she is talking about how she is planning something with chalk and she's struggling by talking about her choking

She is saying there are more days to come after the nights and mornings

When she says non-cheering dark I think she is referring to a silent night, maybe meaning peace and quiet.

I think that when she talks about strength to heal and enhance she is trying to call people to her, so she can help them and I think this refers back to the title of prisoners, but not in the literal sense but prisoners of their feelings and she's trying to help them.

This relates to the last line and I think she is calling for the broken people to come to her.

Something is tearing her down and it is causing her distress.

There is that word over again, I think she is trying to refer to getting over something.

She is talking about you get what you do to other people, maybe.

Why is the O in over capitalized, what is important about that word?

I don't know who she is calling to but maybe it relates back to the title and she is calling for prisoners. Or maybe she's trying to get somebody's attention.

I think this is repetition from the last line and if she is repeating it, then it must be important.

I think by her saying where it is dry she is talking about the bad things that aren't being fixed because it's like saying if there was water then it could grow but because it's dry nothing is happening.

I think by this line she is meaning that she is under something, and the people above her are mean like wolves and coyotes and they silence her.

When she says hot I think she is meaning her desire on the inside to wanna do something but by paralysis she is saying she cant. So its something she desires to do but she cant.

I think she is referring to something like looking down on a situation, and its a cold situation so maybe she's meaning that its not good because cold represents bad like how warm would represent good.

I think when she says dark gardening she is referring to something thats not good and thats what their harvesting is thing that are bad.

She is calling for unity of some people, and she is saying to come out of the dark and be together.

The place she performs is full of people.

She is not known by people.

Its easy for her to dance ballet

People don't know that she knows how to dance ballet.

Is she afraid of the spotlight? She doesn't want the house to encore for her?

Was she able to become a ballerina? But it was hard to become one?

She never had enough ambition to accomplish her dreams

She didn't have the right things to become a ballerina

She wanted to be a ballerina, but she couldn't

If she had the right skills she could have went on to being a professional ballet dancer.

She's saying if she had certain knowledge. So maybe she's blaming her skills on her lack of knowledge.

I think she means that she's sad but sometimes she becomes happy but it don't last long.

She sounds like she's independent and maybe she don't have a dad and thats why she's sad.

I don't think she means she cant literally dance, I think she's using it as like she's broken and she's expressing her emotions through as she cant dance because dancing is connected to joy, so maybe she's sad.

That wasn't her first time hearing the word but the meaning of the word was different and because of that, she didn't know how to take it because the way her family used it was different than how the young boy used it.

Because this boy said this word he was probably raised around the word and because of that it shaped his reality. And how she had never heard that word shows her reality. And this relates back to the last paragraph when she wrote,"And building from the meanings of what we hear, we order reality."

What words we are raised around and how the words are used in our life determines how we use them and what we know about that word determines our reality, but our reality of something may be different than another persons reality.

Dialogue is more powerful than spoken words because of who is saying it, what is being said, and how they are saying it.

Is he being tempted by the fruits of life?

He sounds like he's comparing his life to Tantalus. Almost like he's reaching for something in life but he'll never get to it.

He's questioning why we have to die. He's contemplating life

When he talks about how a mole digs through the ground, Is he talking about how he walks through life blinded like a mole.

Quibble means to have an objection or a criticism. Whats being criticized?

He believes in God and he believes that God is good and everything he does works for good

This is defined as a sharp division of things or ideas into two contradictory parts.

When he says that the object is for the vision of seers I see it as him saying that only the people who can imagine a better future and the determined ones will truly be able to accomplish this and they will be the ones to make a change

I think beauty for him represents freedom and rights.

When he last asked the audience what they would do with their freedom he mentioned a lot of luxurious things and then when he mentions that this isn't what they really want, it shows how all they desire is freedom and the rights like everyone else.

When he talks about becoming an American I think he sees being American as a colorless person and theirs no lines that limit you to anything and thats why he wants to be American so he can be free.

He desires to be an American with all the same rights that White Americans have, but I think its hard for him because he sees how history of America has been tragic to Black Americans and I think by him saying he wants to be an American he says he wants freedom but what America was and is, he doesn't want to be apart of that.