19 Matching Annotations
  1. Nov 2023
    1. ragedy, comedy, valor and truth, Courage, constancy, heroism, failure– All in the loom, and oh what patterns!

      the emotions in the loom are as natural as the the nature among the earth. of the three poems there is a connections of feelings or moments that fade away.

    1. West Virginia to Kiss My Ass, out of buried aunties, Mothers hardening like pounded stumps, out of stumps,

      they are getting tougher every time they are cut down.

    2. Gutted cars, earth is calling in her little ones, “Come home, Come home!” From pig balls, From the ferocity of pig driven to holiness,

      The earth is personified with the characteristics of a mother. most likely an animal mother. a pig or lion.

    3. From “Bow Down” come “Rise Up,” Come they Lion from the reeds of shovels,

      Within the poem there are lines that jump through time. they show a start and end point like this one.

  2. Oct 2023
    1. Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers

      the cracked and fragmented mountains the become cracked towers

    1. Exceptional considerations. Never the less tenderness. Resting cow curtain.

      The poem has a fun rhythm and rhyme that i found myself saying it to a tune. It would make an interesting song. It was the word tenderness that gave me the idea of who should record this poem

    2. Measure a measure a measure or. Which is pretty which is pretty which is pretty.

      The rhythm of these two lines sounds like a spell or rhyme one would hear around a school yard 70 years ago.

  3. Sep 2023
    1. Before these gathering dews are gone May pierce me–does the rose regret The day she did her armour on?

      there is imagery that reminds me of the rose, unthorned and spiney the beautiful flower will pierce what will give it the most affection.

    2. That heaven itself in arms could not persuade To lay aside the lever and the spade

      The spade being the shovel that buries the character, heaven could not be convinced to do anything but escort the character to his death.

    3. Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again;

      This reminds me of the passage from the bible book of Corinthians that is read in weddings describing all the things that love is. these lines are describing what love is not.

    1. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:

      The choice that the narrator made will be and is something that they remember often. They are already anticipating the emotions they will feel when recounting this moment. The sigh tells us that is was not an easy decision to make and that could be one with regrets.

    2. No memory of having starred Atones for later disregard, Or keeps the end from being hard.

      is starred suppose to be 'started', but shortened so the rhythm works? the mention of Hollywood has me believe that it can be both. I also question what kind of end the narrator is referring to.

    3. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake.

      personifying the horse adds to the scene by making it a character with its own motivation. The narrator stops to notice the beauty of the scene, but the horse does not understand what makes this evening so special.

    1. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!

      this being my last annotation the term haunted house is foreshadowing what is to come, but when I read it the first time it seemed like a couple taking a holiday. The words haunted and romantic stand out to me. They are informing the reader that this story will go one of two ways.

    2. When I get really well, John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit; but he says he would as soon put fireworks in my pillow-case as to let me have those stimulating people about now.

      She speaks of how lonely she is becoming being secluded in this room. Her excitement to see others is undone by John. At this point it seems as she sees what she desires in the Yellow Wallpaper. In the next paragraph she begins to give the wallpaper human qualities.

    3. “I’ve got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”

      The mention of 'Jane' confuses me. The narrator is never named. Is this the woman in the wallpaper speaking? Is Jane another name for Jennie?