Adonis is also a greek myth figure who was lusted over by the goddesses Persephone and Aphrodite. This could be a reverse reference of the basic instinct of human nature which is the desire for food and sex. So this character is mindlessly having all these relations.

using a reference to the three blind witches of fate also called "The Grarae" from greek mythology. The golden thread is an individual human life literally hanging on a thread.

This refers to Slim suggesting that the South has similar characteristics as Hell from what he could remember during his living days in Tennessee and Louisiana.

Usually the gates of hell in most stories including Dante's inferno has the saying above the gates of hell "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" but i guess "Dis is it" works too.

This brings the feeling of one community, where some feel their troubles overwhelming their existence but through music, through blues and Ma Rainey they are able to use the rhythm and the beat to bring some satisfaction in life and not feel so depressed.

This reminds me of W.E.B Dubois and his mentioning of women slaves being taken advantaged of in "On the Souls of Black Folk." There is also his idea of white blood tainting black blood by creating these bastards of slavery.

Representing the tempo and pace of the music. Dragging the sound makes it better in is perspective

See past the race and color and dwell more into the personality and what makes the person

Darker brother could refer to the unliked person in the family, in this case, the darker brother is someone who people stash away from public

In the first part of the wasteland, Phlebes is given a fortunetelling by Madam Sosostris where she draws “the drowned Phoenician soldier.” In the fourth part of the awakening, the prediction comes true as a current takes Phlebes. The symbolic meaning for water usually is seen as an element of purification and healing. In this instance though, the water has “picked his bones in whispers” and becomes this overwhelming force that takes his life’s energy piece by piece. It drains and tears apart his body piece by piece. The water has become his fear, the fear of death. Water, a usual symbol for restoration has an alternative significance as well where an excessive amount could be damaging instead of restorative. The water is also supposed to be this symbolism of purity. This could be a representation of Phlebes having his own soul purified since there was a prediction of his specific death. In death, his soul or life could have redemption or it could simply mean nothing and becomes a pointless and careless death. ![Image Description] (http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6humwmDm71rs2gnoo1_1280.jpg) "He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool." This is an interesting line since it could be interpreted many ways. For instance, there could be the idea that his life is being drained but so is his youth. So he is literally aging in the sea and growing weak. The River of Styx comes to mind since this could be a transfer from Earth to the Underworld. His forgetting what the crying of gulls and the other passing of the world could also mean that this "river" or this sea is passing time a quick rate for Phlebes physically and mentally

In most symbolic aspects of poems or stories, white is seen as a sign of purity so in life it could be easily set in their minds that being white was a virtue.

poets are people who have the desire to speak their mine and not be afraid of the publics opinion but to simply put their poems out there. If a black man writes he feels he needs to censor certain details and aspects of the poem knowing he is receiving extreme prejudice

Double consciousness appears to deeply affect the speaker and his opinions between both races. It is upsetting to see that self hatred towards one's race but reality kicks in as well for which society had the best advantages.

Place away from society where it is possible to be lost

The dead men that are undead "Zombies" The lost bones are possibly scattered away from the dead men hence "fragments"

What is considered an unreal city? Is it something to be seen as a beautiful display or a place of a repulsive nature?

Does this show the vulnerability or fraud of her clairvoyance because she could not see he own lines rising and prevent it?

Are these dried tubers usually meant to rejuvenate the supposed dull roots?

a famous drink that was popular in the 1920s to 1930s

She could be referring to her husband and how she is always looking out for his needs all the time and there isn't one moment where she isn't doing something for him.

This poem could be a representation of the mind process and the constant change of the responsibilities, random thoughts that come in and out of the mind

Since this was taking place in the early 1920's could the poet be describing the change in women's fashion with being more free-spirited and liberated and his disagreement with the new changes

If the society they used to have was controlled, who controlled it? the people? Now that it is out of control and set for either a spiral path of destruction and temptation for desires or it could also be the opposite path and be enlightening to let things go, who would be the person to stabilize the society? At what point should someone take control?

He could be referring to the purist of people being tainted with certain sins like lust and other forms of temptation as to create a form of anarchy and unrestraint against peoples desires

the crowd is a blur? there are so many that they are unrecognizable and simply gray or in this case black / not at all interesting.

is this showing an isolation moment where the speaker and the horse in a separation period away from the village and society with only the company of the sark woods and the harsh cold wind?

Is it possible that the promises he meant to keep is with his "little horse" since he thinks it is "queer" for them to be in area that is not the farmhouse and desperately wants to get there?

What is so appealing to the speaker about these woods and the owner of them that would make him stop in the cold dark snowy woods to take a moment and reflect on this strange area?

Aren't both paths in most stories appealing and similar? Yet as the person progresses through the path their is always either a shorter and quite easy passing or their is the extreme harsh and difficult obstacle that most choose, not entirely on purpose

Is frost realizing that the he was meant or had a purpose to chose a certain path that was already made for him and yet decides to abandon or rather deny the path that was chosen for him in order to experience something no one else has?

Is this an indication that Frost himself has only two choices in life to choose from and there is a conflict blocking him from trying to experience both perspectives that is the dividing road?

This is a reflection of Robinson's hometown in Maine and possibly Mr. Flood to Robinson.

since everything else has died and gone from his life, like any person alone feeling the need to numb the pain, he considers his only friends to be himself and the drink with nothing else to rely on.

An indication that most likely his friends have all gone or died and this is a remembrance, "a phantom salutation of the dead," as he sees the town of all the memories and time he spent with them. This show how alone he feels

Its possible that she has been cramped up in that room so long that she only can vision that yellow design everywhere including the smudges on clothes, like when a flash hits the eye and remains, and desperately needs to escape.

this reminds me of a term called "angel in the house" when i studied british literature and how in this time period women were supposed to have been this angelic example to the husbands as a sign of comfort as he exits the business world back into the domestic sphere.

just another example of the "angel in the house" term and how she needs to get better solely for his benefit and not her own

There was a saying in those times that if a white individual had 1% of african american blood in them they were considered tainted depending on the status of the mother. If the mother is slave, baby will be slave. Dubois perspective goes an opposite way, it is the white man that tainted the blood of african americans by that 1% "the red stun of bastardy" after years and years of raping african american female slaves.

The freedom given by their emancipation still has strings attached that continues to prejudice the race of the black man and making him doubt himself into double consciousness.

This term is a representation of the self-consciousness of one's own race based on the ideals of the others. This in a way promotion of shame for being born a certain race. It can even create a inner hatred to someone's own race because of the opinions and ideals of another.

Candor is someone capable of being completely open and honest while also showing in the context of this poem a sense of purity and cleanliness while tar is this black pit of darkness. Since Levine had written these poems to reflect on the Detroit riots, the whiteness of candor and the darkness of tar could have reverse roles in the imagery of good and bad, in this case white is bad and dark is good.