Hughes also makes a comment about them trying to keep them in the kitchen when company comes.

I feel like I wouldn't necessarily agree with this statement. Don't poets mostly write about their inner issues or conflicts within their life? It is like song writers, how they write about their pain and suffering to help discover themselves.

The abuse reminds me of "They Feed Thy Lion" and how there is a want for change.

This reminds me of the Waste Land because of spring being described as "the burning first" similar to April being the cruelest month.

There is a lot of mentioning about growth and growing throughout the poem. It reminds me of the burial of the dead and the blooming.

Light is also a motif that is seen throughout the poem to be a process of thoughtfulness and thinking.

The road is a motif in this poem for something that continues and progresses. It is a motif that shows the beginning/end and also the path one chooses.

Water is a motif that is brought up consistently. Water is symbolistic for life and death in this poem

This line adds to the pattern of death and corps' being buried. The shadow under the rock is showing the theme of death that is portrayed throughout this chapter.

This is a vibrant image for this poem. Hyacinth are flowers that come in vibrant colors in the Spring time. I think it's interesting how she is called the "hyacinth girl" because it is so vibrant and breathtaking.

There seems to be a pattern of the use of the word "dry" or "dried." It reminds me of the darkness of the title, because essentially, the dead are dry as well.

isolated lakes

I feel like the narrator is questioning as to why someone would lay out and design this specific doomed story. Who designed such darkness for us to witness?

It seems odd that he is taking so long on this detour trying not to be seen in the darkest evening where he can't even see the view anyway. Even the horse seems to be confused and then the narrator finally realizes it and acknowledges he has a promise to keep and a road to continue on.

Although he looks at one road for a while longer than the road he takes, he says that this other road is calling him. It is more enticing and has made a better "claim" or invitation to him.

He keeps insinuating that everything must come to an end. The snows and roses are vanished and love is like a rose that fades. Everything will fade out and eventually vanish.

He shakes his head because is remembering that he alone, and that nothing is the same here anymore. The song was done and now he is surrounded by strangers rather than friends.

It is sad because they feel that they don't have the same influence on people especially women, as they used to. They feel that their young fresh blood has drained and that they are almost hopeless and not full of life like their cheeks had once shown.

He is using his power against her mental illness to make her believe that it is her fault that she is feeling this way and possibly hurting herself and her baby. She just wants to be heard and let into the world to witness and live in the environment outside. He is treating her like a child or prisoner in her own life just so he could prove to be more stable and smart than her.

The fact that the woman sees a figure and has convinced herself of a whole scenario of escape and a sort of haunting reminds me of our other texts that also mention hauntings and ghosts.

He chooses his path and instead of feeling unworthy and ashamed, he wants to embrace his skin color. He uses it as a positive influence for the rest of the world. He wants to prove everyone that he can and will be both Negro and an American.

Du Bois comes to the realization that he will not be enough and when it came to "dazzling" things, he was unworthy. He wanted to prove them wrong and look for something that he could become exceptional at to be acknowledged.

This line shocks me because even though the rays were unborn and the women were dead, he was ready? I don't fully understand the analogy but understand that regardless he is ready.

He uses this word throughout the text and it is interesting that he keeps using it to describe supernatural. The other words around it also enhance its meaning, such as supersensual, mysterious, divine substance, etc. These words show the use of occult as something bigger

This line intrigued me because Adams is trying to prove here that he saw things the right way while others didn't necessarily see it that way. Ending with "no one saw the same unit of measure" makes me think that no one would agree with his way of sequence. I want to know what the other men saw that was so different though?

This line specifically jumps out to me because this poems seems to reach out and describe a sort of growing rebellion. People who begin rebellions or are a part of a movement are people who have been hurt and people who have seen hurt and abuse of power. "Bow Down" reminds me of a sort of command and "Rise up" shows me that those who were commanded to bow down, decide to rise up and rebel.