Totally a Shakespearian reference AND can relate to zombies, or the undead, by the fact that "the king my father" was a ghost in hamlet, not remaing dead.

Looking like the living dead!!!

This seems to repeat itself a lot

A zombie state

"I could not speak"

Pretty zombie-ish colors

Planting a corpse, waiting for it to sprout or bloom, turning 'dead' into 'undead'. Also, having to water this corpse to make it sprout, death by water, yet water turns it undead. Being undead is worse than death, more of a killing?

Bingo! Undead. This kind of makes me think of the paralysis of fear, the frozen-ness.

Zombie/apocalypse 'wasteland'.

ZOMBIE.

ZOMBIE

This represents another, some-what skewed, sense of collectiveness between the people who built America, and the people who get to enjoy it. These two groups of people have commonality, yet are drastically separated.

There is definitely a relation between Brown's, "Ma Rainey", and Hughes', "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", in regards to a collective feeling between people from a variety of locations. I believe collectiveness is a major theme between these two poems.

Hughes uses extremely vivid imagery in this poem to display the differing emotions that could be paired with each metaphor of a "dream deferred". Ultimately, Hughes uses these metaphors to express how problematic a dream deferred is, and to convey the typidcal message of "follow your dreams".

This line speaks of significance to me, pairing a stark imagery of black and white together, yet one of Hughes' messages is separating the negro from whiteness. I feel there is a deeper meaning here but I cant quite draw it out.

This speaks to me as Hughes describing his deep connections to his past and history, conveying a certian apparent consciousness that awakes his soul.

Currently I am taking a Jazz Survey course, and a History of SF course, and I cant help but think of how, a couple decades down the road, the largely white Beats movement happened, taking inspiration from jazz. Was this a whitening of jazz, or a celebration of the negro artist?

Hughes describes a divided people, amongst eachother and themselves, and this division is "a very high mountain" of whiteness. Yet, although it is "very high", it would not be impossible to overcome, just incredibly challenging.

I definetly get Du Bois vibes almost instantly when reading this passage. There is a similarity with Hughes' mountin compared with Du Bois' veil, allthough Du Bois discusses the double consciousness as an internal struggle while Hughes seems to want the negro artist to ebrace their both being negro and an artist.

I love these two lines. I get a strong image of some type of fruit funferal where the act of crying "paper peaches" happens and engrained in the headstone reads "Rest in grapes" rather than "Rest in peace". Its incredibly odd and equally entertaining. Also, the flow of reading these two lines in succession is quite pleasing.

Immediately produced an image in my mind of someone tickling me so they can in turn receive an education, or maybe to be educated on the topic of tickling. By the repetition of "tickle tickle tickle", it seems as an act of ticking because one often says "tickle tickle ticle" while tickling someone. Kind of like,saying "googchy goochy goo" to a baby.

I caught myself pausing here for much too long, thinking about the use and meaning of the word "egg", especially, in this case, being paired with the verb "insists". With the two terms together, the egg is personified in a way which is perplexing. In regards to the previous lines, I sense some meaning here, but I wont pretend to know what it may be.

Using the term "familiarity" to describe the relationship between the parents and the Physician seems problematic since the relationship appears to be tumultuous at best. This is a prime example of making oneself at home within the troubles of being a modernist.

The language of this poem reminds me of a sticky-note that would be left on a fridge door by one sibling to another. It has an attitude of sarcasm, feigning sincerity, which also makes the poem quite humorous.

Williams uses the poem "To Elsie" to describe what seems to be, "The pure products of America". He does this by using uncomfortable imagery and phrases tied with negative connotations. By using this language to describe "The pure products of America", Williams is defamiliarizing the image of America that was previosly viewed as a beacon of opportunity and positivity.

The common phrase, "food for thought", depicts the idea of mentally chewing over ideas, but there is a type of "food" for despair, because despair must feed off of something to exist. The final lines portray a message that once the "iron cortex" has developed, one doesnt need to worry about these bothersome thoughts.

While reading this I kept comparing the Man to the story of Sisyphus. The Man is described as "doughty", meaning brave and persisent, yet reaching no avial, much like Sisyphus. This poem gives off the feeling of 'all work but no reward'.

The repetition of, "It well may be", infuses the previously strong statements with doubt, thus changing the overall attitude of the poem into an uncertainty about lover, rather than a solidified opinion.

"unearthly", giving the narrative a supernatural element, like Gilman, along with the verbs "spring" and "leap" giving animalistic characteristics. Finally succumbing to his most real, or powerful, self, possibly relating to the ending of Yellow Wallpaper.

"the entity that constituted the pair of them was being wrenched in twain", twain meaning "two". Does this mean the divide, is being ? Leaving only one side left? "the house divided against istsself must fall", blending both sides together, like a pile of rubble?

Even the clerks have had enough of this dramatic viel, or split, in class. Robinson Du Bois

Could be related to Robinsons "The Clerks", how people north of the "Slot", "ache so much to be sublime", yet we are all human at our cores.

"ghost", implying the fact that the identity of Bill Totts haunts him. Also, this reminds me of Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", where the speaker wants to stay, like Freddie wants to be Bill, yet knows he cannot.

Supernatural element. Again Yellow Wallpaper, maybe even Robinson and Masters.

This is the first time that 'dualism', or double consciousness, is seen as problematic, and the reality that a healthy life means shattering the veil.

As the narrative takes a turn, I cant help but compare this text to Gilman's. Two main characters, who are writers, and both being surpressed into false selves.

Drummond chooses to live this life of double consciousness, and prospers, while Du Bois speaks of being forced into doubleness. This makes Drummond appear pretentious, or condescending, giving off the message of "look at me slum it with the poor and still prosper".

This poem definitely carries a spooky theme with spiders, witches, death, and darkness, that is comparable to the spooky themes in Gilman's, Master's, and Robinson's work.There is also an existential aspect being raised here that could be compared to Du Bois, and the other aforementioned authors.

With the assumption that the speaker did not actually take the road less traveled by, yet tells the reader they did, there is a sort of double consciousness about that. Living one way, yet reporting another, thus creating a divergence within the speaker's self.

FMorris makes an excellent observation of comparing the fences in "Mending Wall" to Du Bois' 'veil'. The spaker in Frost's poem seems to not want this wall, just as Du Bois doesnt want the veil, yet they are both presented with it. This poem could also be compared to Master's and Robinson's theme of blocking people out, and an overall discontent for others, since the neighbor wants to keep the wall errect.

The repetition of "And you" makes the reader feel as if they are being attacked by the speaker, almost as if the speaker is physically jabbing a finger at the reader. The idea of "feed[ing] yourselves with your descent" makes the reader seem like a glutton. The speaker makes the reader feel like a failed opportunist, and, again, the speaker seems to prefer the two ghost men, over the people who are still alive.

The first half of this poem is definitely more positive than the latter half, carrying a calm, reminiscent tone to it, even though the speaker seems to be recalling an encounter with two ghost men. The speaker describes the ghost men as "good" and "human", casting away any sense of uneasiness that one may expect to be feeling.

In comparison to "Seth Compton", "Lucinda Matlock" is not all that different in context. While the overall tone of "Lucinda Matlock" is optimistic, and "Seth Compton" pessimistic, the both share a theme of insulting the people who are still alive. The speaker in the above quote is calling attention to the ignorance of the "Degenerate sons and daughters", who are still alive and unappreciative of the values they face, just as the speaker in "Seth Compton" does.

Upon the second reading of this poem, I realized that these first three words definitely represents a theme of "haunting", and tells the reader that the speaker of the poem is incredibly unsettled about the fact that the speakers library was sold at auction. The speaker seems to be recounting the villager's ignorance, and possible spite, as if it were these factors that led the speaker to become this haunted, unsettled force.

Du Bois is claiming that the journey of education is what brings reflection, self-examination, self-realization, etc. It is here that the symbol of the veil is mentioned again, acting again as a separation between him and his true self, except this time through the mode of education, rather than social perception. It almost seems like this veil of education is of a new level, a step above that of the veil of Emancipation."Chang[ing] the child of Emancipation to the youth with dawning self-consciousness"..

When there are two separate selves inside one body, it seems nothing less than extremely difficult to blur the lines and merge the two together. The only way in which I can relate this idea to mysel,f is to think about my own example of double-consciousness. As an English Education student, I often find myself in class as both an active student, and a future teacher, absorbing that day's lesson, while also examing the ways in which my professor executes the lesson through styles and techniques. While my double-consciousness is of my own creation, Du Bois must deal with one which was forced upon him, creating an inner turmoil and tension.

Du Bois' double-consciousness is the ultimate example of disjuncture between appearance and reality.He describes it as wearing a viel, something that is almost trasnparent, yet separative nonetheless. The idea of the double-consciousness and the veil has always been compelling in its truth and literary worth.

The Gibbon quote about the Gothic cathedrals demonstrates a separation from the Virgin - thus a separation from faith. Adams regards this quote as an idea that has become natural thinking by describing it as someting "fresh and simple as the green fields". This leads me to believe that the separation between the Dynamo and the Virgin is something welcomed, when I have otherwise thought the message was to bring the Virgin back to the forefront.

This is the third mention of Branly and his findings of the coherer, making it apparent that he is a person Adams holds in high regard. Branly's coherer is, according to Wikipedia, "a primitive form of radio signal detector", implying that Adams mind pings back and forth between the Virgin and the Dynamo, just like that of a radio signal detector. Im still trying to figure out why the two are grouped together, although it seems like he is compairing the Virgin to feeling and the Dynamo to facts.

Upon my first reading of this line, I interpreted the line as the chemist being amused by the comparisons of faith to science. My interpretation became futher rooted in the latter part of the sentence where it is stated that the chemist and his fellow physicists "could feel the force of both", both meaning science and faith. I understand that the early days of science could be compared to faith in that it resembles the supernatural, yet maybe by this time chemists have started to notice the separtation between faith and science, thus making the process of comparing the two amusing.

This is the first time a first person narrative is introduced, personally presenting the readers to the speaker in a rather ambiguous way. What type of speaker contains five arms and many hands? The proceeding line infers that the speaker is white and privilaged since their "white sins" are "forgiven", and because of this fact, the overworked factory employees have more fuel to add to their fires of rage, hence " they feed".