doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind,
I know god is a being that guides people in need, and thats probably why he calls him "well-meaning, kind".
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- May 2021
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The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Yeah its about immigrants, and how shes opening this door for them to a safe haven.
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“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
Its like shes aggressively welcoming them and telling these people who have come to the states they'll be okay now and will live freely.
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Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
she welcomes people to the state...( oh immigrants?)
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A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles
The mother of exiles is the statue of liberty isn't it?
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Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
it sounds like they're on a beach, but then sunset gates throw me off a little....what is the sunset blocking like a gate?
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With conquering limbs astride from land to land
kind of reminds me of war, like conquering limbs could be taking something but then it says land to land like they're expanding.
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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
Something they look up to maybe like a god?, or an actual giant.
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The New Colossus
possibly a huge statue.
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George Herbert,
Why bring up the name of a famous poet? maybe cause he was rich?
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The docker, the navvy. The planter, the picker, the sorter Sweating at her machine in a litter of cotton As slaves in calico headrags sweated in fields:
the work described here is being compared to the sweatshop its hard and dangerous .
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Prints, plaids, checks, Houndstooth, Tattersall, Madras. The clan tartans
describing different patterns but why?
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Corners of both pockets, like a strict rhyme Or a major chord.
Back to the ballooning, the air is filling his pockets too and making them flip inside out possibly.
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Like Hart Crane’s Bedlamite, “shrill shirt ballooning.” Wonderful how the pattern matches perfectly Across the placket and over the twin bar-tacked
his shirt is ballooning? like the air is filling his shirt as he in in the air.
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He stepped to the sill himself, his jacket flared And fluttered up from his shirt as he came down, Air filling up the legs of his gray trousers—
He jumped out of the window as well..
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A third before he dropped her put her arms Around his neck and kissed him. Then he held Her into space, and dropped her. Almost at once
Hes a hero helping the women escape, and maybe this one was a lover or just really grateful he helped her.
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Away from the masonry wall and let her drop. And then another. As if he were helping them up To enter a streetcar, and not eternity.
Oh so he dropped her out of the window. Probably hoping she would live rather than go down with the fire....?
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The witness in a building across the street Who watched how a young man helped a girl to step Up to the windowsill, then held her out
People across the street watch as a man held this girl outside the window because of the fire.
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At the Triangle Factory in nineteen-eleven. One hundred and forty-six died in the flames On the ninth floor, no hydrants, no fire escapes—
This was a historical even Triangle factory fire in the 1911, it was a very tragic event, but also pushed to make work environments for sweatshops better.
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Of cuff I button at my wrist. The presser, the cutter, The wringer, the mangle. The needle, the union, The treadle, the bobbin. The code. The infamous blaze
Its seems that working in a sweatshop is dangerous..
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Gossiping over tea and noodles on their break Or talking money or politics while one fitted This armpiece with its overseam to the band
is this describing the environment of working in a sweatshop?
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The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible stitches along the collar Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians
Is he talking about the work labor going into making these shirts?
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She rises like dragonsmoke to my nostrils.
What's dragonsmoke? I still don't know but it seems kinda weird but bad in a way it just sound bad for someone.
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She burns like a shot glass of vodka.
vodka is knows as Neutral but strong, maybe showing that though he wasn't their it still burns.
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silent as quicksilver.
Reminds me of a bullet. Its loud when fired yes but when its flying in the air is silent.
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She burns like a burning bushdriven by a godawful wind.
Is the memory of her coming back to him like godawful wind pushing it in his face.
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She burns like a field of poppies
Poppies actually have a meaning to them its remembrance.
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She glows like the fat tipof a banker's cigar, silent as quicksilver.A tiger under a rainbow at nightfall.
Hes using different ways to describe this girl that he once knew, not only did he compare her beauty and memory to the sun hes also describing a softer side to her possibly.
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She burns like oil on water.She burns like a cattail torchdipped in gasoline.
is he describing her like the sun like earlier when he says "at day break she burns..." but this version of describing her seems like a memory of her that he cant let go?
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like a sack of dry ice.
Something lingers still?
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We stand with our handshanging at our sides,while she burns
is he imagining her standing next to him as she fades away with the sun?
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At daybreak she burns like a piece of paper.She burns like foxfirein a thigh-shaped valley.A skirt of flamesdances around herat dusk.
it seems like hes describing her beauty to daybreak.
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The cry I bring down from the hillsbelongs to a girl still burninginside my head
Possible remembering a memory of a girl he once loved or cared about.
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You and I Are Disappearing
Perhaps its talking about life, as in disappearing life is slowly fading away?
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Or does it explode?
Does it become to much and the dream just shatters/ disappears. Its in italics to so maybe hes exaggerating to make it stick.
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Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Having these dreams on pause, and having negative thoughts make it sag and weight on them. Like an overwhelming thought.
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Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet?
Does the memory of having this dream make it stink. Or stay in their memory like a sweet treat. Comparing the dream to how food rots and how its sugared over.
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Or fester like a sore— And then run?
will it bother them that they had put a pause on their dream, and then that dream gets too far away from them that they can no longer catch up to it?
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Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
will this dream be forgotten and the remaining hope for this dream drys like a raisin.
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What happens to a dream deferred
does he mean dream as in something he wishes to do but had to postpone it. will this question be answered in the poem?
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children probably couldn't see as high
He brings up children, because they're influenced by everything they see and the environment they are in. He says "couldn't see as high" because they couldn't see what he has seen yet they haven't seen it all.
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I know this crackhead who said she's got to do drugs it's all she's got
She has to do drugs is all she has but why, is it because she used these drugs are used to escape reality.
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Hand me a nine and I'll defeat foes
Is he boasting about how if you give him a pistol...( i think its a pistol) that he can defeat his foes.
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Bullet holes left in my peepholes, I'm suited up in street clothesHand me a nine and I'll defeat foes
Are these streets their battle field? What war are they fighting with each other?
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Holding an M-16
wait, why is he holding an M-16? Are these rifles even legal to own?
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I be kicking, musician, inflictin' composition
Who is he inflicting his music to? is it the music industry as a whole or certain people who relate to his music?
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Of pain, I'm like Scarface smelling amphetamines
I don't know who Scarface is but Arron said who he was(below or above my comment) he says "smelling amphetamines" so was he of pain off of drugs?
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Straight out the friggin dungeons of rap
Dungeons? I don't know much about rap but are there struggles rappers go through that are similar to dungeons?
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Where fake negroes don't make it back
What does he mean by fake?
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between them without a dribble, without a single bounce hitting the hardwood until the guard finally lunges out and commits to the wrong man
Im assuming that you're not supposed to run "without a dribble" cause the "guard finally lunges out".
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both forwards racing down the court the way that forwards should, fanning out and filling the lanes in tandem, moving together as brothers passing the ball
So they're running and passing the ball between each other as they are running. That sounds hard..
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in slow motion, almost exactly like a coach’s drawing on the blackboard,
So it was planned from the beginning. What ever they had planned is the "letting the play develop" OH.
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of a high, gliding dribble and a man letting the play develop in front of him
so someone has the ball and is dribbling the ball in a way that something can happen "letting the play develop" meaning that someones gonna steal it?
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who looks stunned and nailed to the floor in the wrong direction, trying to catch sight
So the other team has the ball now? he says "stunned and nailed to the floor" like hes shocked after what just unfolded in-front of him, then "in the wrong direction" so the ball is moving away from the goal they want it to go in..
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an underhand pass toward the other guard scissoring past a flat-footed defender
Is he describing team work "pass toward the other guard" passing the ball to another person and when he says "scissoring past a flat-footed defender" that the pass was successful.
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and spinning around to throw a strike to the outlet who is already shoveling
by spinning around does he mean the ball or the person...I'm confused and what does me mean by "to the outlet who is already shoveling" like someone who's prepared for something?
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perfectly, gathering the orange leather from the air like a cherished possession
Oh like grabbing the ball from mid air. So its like mid game and hes trying to get the ball?...
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and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump
when he says "for once" i thought that they don't usually get center. Also including that he "times his jumps".
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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop
I'm not a sports person but is he talking about basketball, cause he says "a hook shot" and "kisses the rim".
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in the many many mornings-after;in the chalk and choke.
how this darkness repeats after many days like your a prisoner in your cell facing these negative things all at once and the learning how to heal once again coming to face with the darkness.
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cultivation of strength to heal and enhancein the non-cheering dark
cultivating the strength to heal, does she mean after all the things you will face you will find a place and strength to heal in a place that isn't in the dark.
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Overwhat wants to crumble you down, to sickenyou.
is she saying would you rather fight and face the blows that will come your way or accept the things that want you to crumble and sicken you.
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long blows that you want to give and blows you are going to get.
its like shes telling you, your going to go through things like when you want to punch/scream or fight back "long blows that you want to give" and things your just going to have to face "blows you are going to get".
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Where it is dry.Where it is dry.I call for youcultivation of victory Over
Does she mean its over? The darkness that she was end has come to and end? because its dry and the cultivation of victory.
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in the vertigo cold.in the hot paralysis.Under the wolves and coyotes of particular silences.
It's likes shes naming out all these bad things but in different forms Vertigo cold-- being lost and confused to being cold and hot paralysis-- not being able to move and hot meaning angry possibly.
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Dark gardening
like someone can only harbor dark things and gardening them in their darkness
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I call for you cultivation of strength in the dark
Its like shes requesting strength to over come something in the dark.
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Nor any Placard boast me ‑Itʹs full as Opera ‑
No one boast about her publicly, but they just do is silently "It's full as opera-"
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Nor any know I know the ArtI mention
no one else knows what she does, they don't know she enjoys it but cannot dance
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And though I had no Gown of Gauze ‑No Ringlet, to my Hair
she doesn't have all these things other ballerinas have.
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In Pirouette to blanch a Troupe ‑Or lay a Prima, mad,
shes dreaming about how she would preform.
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That had I Ballet Knowledge ‑Would put itself abroad
She knows if she had learned ballet she would have gone and shown off her skills and shine
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But oftentimes, among my mind,A Glee possesseth me,
Maybe though she cannot dance properly or at all the thought or sight of it brings her happiness
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Till I was out of sight, in sound,The House encore me so
shes making an escape to the place that makes her feel most relaxed and comfortable her home.
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And though I had no Gown of Gauze ‑No Ringlet, to my Hair,Nor hopped for Audiences ‑ like Birds ‑One Claw opon the air
though she wasn't dressed nice, had nothing to her looks, and never wish for an audiences. She appreciated the people who did enjoy her work though she did not have much to offer look wise.
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That had I Ballet Knowledge ‑Would put itself abroad
that if she had ballet knowledge she would dance knowing if she could she would.
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- Apr 2021
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SisyphusTo struggle up a never-ending stair
comparing a man who cannot ever get a bolder up a hill to never ending stairs?
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Sisyphus
A man who ruled Ephrya, but Sisyohus cheated death twice and for punishment forced to roll an boulder up a hill only for it to roll down every time it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity.
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technique is a matter for educational experts
Technique of teaching or educating people in many ways, so no one is left out and everyone understands.
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men who are beginning to remember that this kind of material is theirs
What kind of material? material used during racial times?
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is beckoning them on
The past is just beckoning them on..its waving at them telling them to just move on almost?
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stirring stuff of which romance is born
The relation ship between I think social and racial progress,
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little disturbed at the subject
People will be disturbed because such a negative thing happened in the history of the state we live in people find it disturbing to talk about. They don't want to think about the past and what there ancestor did.
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we can see it day by day looking back
Day by day people are reminded of these "blood-filled paths" because they fought for something so important it left a blood stained path in Americas history.
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perpetuates the position of group inferiority even in crying out
Propaganda leaves a forever effect on a group even after the problem comes to an end, forever affecting these groups and their people.
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