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  1. Jan 2023
    1. And I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt (a tight little skirt)

      play on the expectation of womens purity while expected to also wear "provacative" clothing. Like she is trying to impress him

    1. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there.

      the tone and imagery makes it seem as if the hunters are young and the speaker is like a parent or guardian, cleaning up after them

    1. filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

      the author is saying that eventually everything will be lost all the way to death, everything in your life you will at some point lose, and that you should be prepared for it b/c it inevitable.

    2. I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

      The author talk about the loss of little things that prepared/taught him to lose the more major things in life- saying that the little things you lose in life will prepare you for bigger losses