Ends with a desire for the child to read this poem, kiss its pages, and cry at its mother's death.

Conclusion: ends in disavowel--disowning the child that has been her book--naming it a bastard with a poor mother than sent it away.

Poetic coventons: apostrophe, personification, metaphor, rhyming couplets written in iambic pentameter (the meter characteristic of the sonnet).

Hind & Hart: the hunt is a convention of courtly love poetry where the hart is the male deer and the hind is the female deer. Poet compares herself and her husband to deer, turtledoves, mullet.

Iambic pentameter + rhyming couplets where last couplet offers a conclusion

Prologue: speaker invoking position of humility of the poet/poet's pen; allusion to Barta - Demothenes - comparison of the female poet to a male poet; allusion to ancient Greek Muses; iambic pentameter, stanza form ABABCC, evocation of the muse [her muse is blemished], feminist to demand that, though inferior to male poets, women poets should be acknowledged.

Elizabeth Poem: Anne Bradstreet was born 9 years after the death of QE1. encomium, allusion to + catalogue of historical and mythological Queens. Iambic pentameter + rhyming couplets. Feminist theme. Humility of poet. Compares QE1 to Roman goddess Minerva.

Argument of the poem is that QE1 overturnes men's assumptions about women and rule.

Discussion Questions

1) If, as Lupsha suggests, organized crime preceded and grew along side our Nation’s founding, how can we accurately identify it?

2) The Keyterm “wise guy” has become part of gangster / mafia films parlance; however, are the labels “wise guys,” “sharpies,” and “suckers” necessarily limited to people who move in the world of organize crime?

3) What contemporary figures (fictional or real) who fit these roles?

4) Can you identify + make a case for “wiseguys,” “sharpies,” and “suckers” in The Great Gatsby?

5) Can you identify and make a case for “wiseguys,” “sharpies,” and “suckers” in Hamilton?

6) What if Nick Caraway is right about Gatsby’s dream being corrupted: is the American Dream as an abstract idea susceptible to corruption, much like the American values it represents (those that Lupsha identifies)? What does that say about the routes available to achieve it?

Discussion Questions:

1. What are the keyterms that are important in O’Kane’s argument?

2. What is O'Kane's argument?

3. In what ways did ethnic immigrants try to particulate in the cultural narrative of the “American Dream”? How was that participation viewed and by whom?

4. In what ways and by whom were immigrants prevented from participating in the cultural narrative of the “American Dream”?

5. O’Kane provides a new way of understanding HOW + WHY some ethnic immigrants resorted to pursuing the American Dream in a different way than the American cultural narrative suggested. How + Why did they pursue it? Identify one fictional or real gangster who you think took this path to try to achieve the American Dream.

Nick is an unreliable narrator because he has been conned!

Irony: the criminal is a figure of a higher value to Nick than the the wealthy Buchanans/his cousin Daisy...

THE AMERICAN DREAM NARRATIVE?

An example of an excellently focused, detailed, and evaluative claim in this topic sentence.

Is this part of FSF's overall organizational scheme for the novel?

suggesting that FSF is leading readers to believe this...which goes along with Pauly's claims from the first few paragraphs about Gatsby being "cloaked in mystery"--the subterfuge is intentional and partly responsible for Nick Carraway's unreliable narration of Gatsby's story.

In other words: FSF conned us readers just like Gatsby cons Nick! What do you all think?

Pauly uses this detail as evidence of the influence of the gangster Fleishman in Edmund WIlson's play on the creation of Jay Gatsby...

Did FSF borrow ideas about how to develop Gatsby from the character of Fleishman from Edmund Wilson's play ItalicThe Crime in the Whistler RoomItalic

[unrelated annotation: is WIlson's play a forerunner of the game Clue?

A third model for Gatsby as a gangster...

Another model for Gatsby as a gangster (and Wolfsheim)

One model for Gatsby as a gangster...

Is Paul's claim here strong enough to be the article's thesis?

Is Pauly's claim here strong enough to be a thesis?

Asbury is a contemporary of FSF!!!

Real gangsters are "dandies" and "truly successful gangsters didn't make brazen displays of their intent" means that real gangsters dress stylishly and hide their "intent" meaning their criminality...?

We can connect this to Leo Braudy because Pauly suggests that Asbury believed that journalists, playwrights, and scriptwriters creating "talked of selves" for gangsters!

** What is the major claim--THESIS--that governs Pauly's overall argument in this article?

What important words or phrases stand out as important KEYTERMS in Pauly's argument **

It is interesting to me that Braudy never actually mentions the word "celebrity" in the passage, but uses "famous" instead.

What are the most important Keyterms in this passage? How do they focus the passage and contribute to Leo Braudy's argument about celebrity?

What is Braudy's overall argument about celebrity? How might Braudy's argument apply to gangsters?

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his list of "Lockeian values" is part of Lupsha's argument state in the thesis: these values are important to the evolution of organized crime. Organized crime evolves right along with white collar crime, and it's interesting that the values can be important to both the Horatio Alger "Straight Ladder" and the "Crooked Ladder."

What I also find interesting is that these "American values" are, essentially, English or British values, since John Locke was an English Enlightenment Philosopher. These values would have been brought to America via colonialism, yet Americans held on to these values after achieving our independence from from England.

Some of these values seem to be denied to a whole lot of people....i.e. property, acquisitiveness, procedural equality, and material success....American's value these things, but the fact that competition is also a value suggests that we have to compete for the material representations of these values?

Where do we draw the line between an enterprising individual and a gangster? Hmmm...

Ah--so the values can be reversed! Used to justify both legal and illegal pursuits of wealth or the American Dream? Used to justify taking advantage of others (suckers) to achieve that wealth and that Dream.

This list of "Lockeian values" is part of Lupsha's argument state in the thesis: these values are important to the evolution of organized crime. Organized crime evolves right along with white collar crime, and it's interesting that the values can be important to both the Horatio Alger "Straight Ladder" and the "Crooked Ladder."

What I also find interesting is that these "American values" are, essentially, English or British values, since John Locke was an English Enlightenment Philosopher. These values would have been brought to America via colonialism, yet Americans held on to these values after achieving our independence from from England.

Some of these values seem to be denied to a whole lot of people....i.e. property, acquisitiveness, procedural equality, and material success....American's value these things, but the fact that competition is also a value suggests that we have to compete for the material representations of these values?

I'm posting this annotation comment for Wesley Gerow, whose in section 013 ;-)

Fitzgerald wrote a decent, accurate novel of a gangster because he personally met and conversed with a gangster. This relates back to Braudy's analysis of the "unexpressed self," that no one hears about.

I'm posting this note for an annotation for Wesley Gerow from section 012. Unlike most gangsters, who gain such social prominence and wealth with criminal activities to benefit his own gain, Gatsby did it to gain the attention of his love, Daisy. So is he really a gangster?