The pace of this last section is more like the first section. The second section was really fast with all the exclamation points, while the first section was slower with the constant "who" at the brining of most stanzas. With this section, the narrator seems more calmer as they repeat "I'm with you in Rockland." Ginsberg could have written this section without the "I'm with you in Rockland between each line, but by including it, he deliberately slows the poem down.

The constant use of exclamation points after every single sentence in this section really depicts the downward spiral into the madness the narrator is going down. The exclamation points make you want to read the sentences faster and faster and give a sense of urgency within the text which is a large contrast to the first section that was a bit slower.

Place/setting seems to play a significant role in this poem. Many cities and descriptions of locations are described throughout the text. Many of them, like the ones in this stanza, do not connect with each other. This could in a way symbolize how the minds of the narrator's friends are. Since many of them are "mad" due to the drugs they take, their thoughts are scattered and don't connect to one another.

This line talks about a lonesome road people must go on. It could suggest the loneliness a Balck person feels in a white America. During this time the Balck community was still a minority ethnic group, so it would feel lonely out in the world when you have no one that shares a similar past experience to you. Although they are American, there is still a disconnect and divide between African Americans and white Americans set by society and the government.

Ma Rainey seems to be the connection the Black community have with each other. Through her songs they are able to come together no matter how far away they live even if for just one night. Through her songs they are able to see their emotions and feelings about their shared past and struggles in America. Along with food and language, music is a big connecting factor for a lot of cultures, and I can see the impact Ma Rainey had on the Black community.

The language used in this poem reminds me of topics I'm learning in one of my other classes about using standard English when writing. Unlike the other texts we have read this year, “Ma Rainey” does not use standard English. By using words like "dey" and "de," readers can hear the narrator speak instead of imagining a sound for the narrator. Although it does not use standard English, the meaning of the poem is still there, and I am still able to understand it perfectly.

This line reminds me of the term collective memory, which is a shared pool of memories, knowledge and information of a social group that is closely connected with the group's identity. Although the speaker may not have physically experienced each of these moments, these moments are a part of the collective memory of Black people.

The question marks in this poem open the possibility for an infinite number of answers. The poem is not trying to answer a question but plant a seed in the reader's mind. It feels like a cliffhanger that the reader has to try and solve. It can also spark motivation for the readers during that period and cause people to want to do something about their dreams instead of letting them be deferred.

This sentence is interesting to me because one would expect the sentence to be "I, too am American," but instead Hughes writes "I, too, am America." It makes me think of the word America in context of this poem and history. America was built on the labor of Black slaves, but they were never given the acknowledgement of being American. By using the word America instead of American it implies that America wouldn't be where it is today is not for the labor of Black people.

This sentence reminds me of the ying-yang symbol, and I think it applies to everyone. We live in a society that shames mistakes and flaws but in reality, everyone has them, we were just taught to never show them. But like the ying-yang, people can be perfect, but they always have at least one flaw. Same as those who beautiful. They too have ugly within them and that's perfectly okay. Just because something is "ugly" doesn't mean we should hide it.

It is a sad reality that when you are told from birth that your culture is inferior to another, you grow up believing that as fact. It is hard to think any other way when you have been conditioned for years through school and society that "white is best" and anything else is less than. In a way, the saying "white is best" brainwashes people to believe that if they don't adhere to the standard way, they are less than best, and no one wants that.

Huges brings up an important societal issue that I have witnessed in the U.S. The U.S. is known as "the mixing pot of culture," however, there are many systems in place to force people to conform if they wish to succeed. The "mold of American standardization" reminds me of standardized English in our education system. There has always been a need to sound "academic" when it comes to writing a paper for school and using standard English. Thus, I have heard one too many times by people I have tutored, "How do I make my paper sound academic?" There is a misconception that in order to succeed you have to adhere to the dominant way of doing things, but that is not always true.

In the "Lonely Londoners" by Sam Selvon, there was a scene in which Moses was waiting for someone who was exiting the train-boat and the narrator stated, "Moses stand up out of the way with his hands in his pocket, not interested in the passengers, only waiting for this fellar Henery to come so he could get back home"(27). In both the poem and the passage in the book there is a disconnect between the characters and the people around them. They are only focusing on their task at hand or where they're going that the people around them don't matter or register in their heads.

This speaks to the alienation the characters are creating between them and the people around them. Instead of other people alienating them, they are so focused in their own task and world that by not noticing others around them they are creating their own alienation from the rest of the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzc_aX8c8g4&feature=emb_title The song "Dancing with Your Ghost" depicts the same sentiment of longing for a loved one that has died, which is seen in the story of "Tristan and Isolde." Unlike the Tristan and Isolde, however, the singer does not follow their loved one to death but still holds on to them and longs to reunite with them if only by dancing.

The lyrics "How do I love, how do I love again?/How do I trust, how do I trust again?" depicts the struggle to move on from someone you have loved but have died, which the characters in the play also struggle with. It's a struggle to move on from the past and no matter how much you bury it, you eventually always dig those memories up because you can't hide from them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMMdblS_WNY

This song brings up a lot of motifs that the poem mentions, especially about memories and troubles being dug up, specifically with the lyrics:

"Yesterday/All my troubles seemed so far away/Now it looks as though they're here to stay."

In the poem, the line "Winter kept us warm" connects to the song's lyrics ""Yesterday/All my troubles seemed so far away." While "Now it looks as though they're here to stay" connects to the line "Memory and desire, stirring." The song is agreeing with the poem when it states that you can't keep the past buried. The past(memory/troubles) will eventually find its way to the surface, and you will have to deal with it. The only missing link between the song and the poem is where the future(desire) comes into the play. The song mainly focuses on the past and present, while the poem also includes the future.

These lines show a moment of zombie-ness, or in-between, with Phlebas being dead but having his life flash before his eyes. Phlebas passed away a fortnight, or two weeks, ago, but is only now seeing moments throughout his life as his body is floating in the sea. It seems like he is between life and death. Although he has physically died, his memories are still playing in his head.

There are two mentions of zombie-ness, or in-between, in these lines. The first being Tiresias being blind but can see. In Greek Mythology, Tiresias was a blind prophet. thus, he is blind but can see. The next in-between is Tiresias being both a man and a woman. According to Greek Mythology, Tiresias was born a man, but transformed into a woman for seven years.

One moment of zombie-ness, or in-between, is the story of Philomel. After doing some research, I found that Philomel was raped by her sister's husband, King Tereus, who then cut her tongue, preventing her from singing. Luckily, she was transformed into a nightingale and thus gets back her "inviolable voice." When her tongue was cut off, a part of her died, but then she was given a rebirth when she transformed into a nightingale.

Not knowing German, I did a little research for these lines and found that the lines were original in an opera based on a Celtic legend of Tristan and Isolde(depicted in the above image). It is an interesting choice to include these lines because the opera centered around the themes of love and death and the imagery in this poem depicts that as well with spring and winter at the beginning.

The image above shows a woman behind broken glass. You can see sections of her face but can't really see her expression or her facial details. Reading these lines reminded me of it, because I think the narrator is trying to say how can you know or understanding something, when you only have pieces of the whole picture.

This line depicts an image of Earth completely covered in snow and nothing of the natural land can be seen. To some winter snow can be seen as dark and errie but to the narrator it keeps them warm. The snow acts kind of like a blanket and hides away any problems they want to forget, while in April/spring, flowers begin to bloom and brings those problems to the surface again.

The line "Happy happy happy all the." reminds me of Ezra Pond's poem "In a Station of the Metro." When reading it I expected "time" to go after "the" to complete the sentence, like how we would expect "like" to go in between the two lines in "In a Station of the Metro." However, Stein did not complete the sentence like that but instead ends it with a period. I think that brings it back to the line "All the, chose." Although we expect "time" to complete the sentence because that's how most of our brains are conditioned, Stein is going against that thought and telling people to choose whatever word they want to finish the sentence. Also, by isolating these lines, I was able to understand the meaning even though it did not go with the lines above or below it. You truly have to find patterns within the chaos that is this poem to understand its meaning.

Like most of the poem, this line can sound like nonsense. But if you look closely at how many times she uses the word "rose" and think of the different definitions of rose, Stein's message becomes clearer. Rose can have four definitions: a name, "to rise," the color, and the flower. Even knowing all those definitions of the word rose, I still don't know if the sentence has any literal meaning. Still, I think Stein is trying to get readers to notice that words with the same spelling have many different definitions and usages. When we think of the word rose, our mind instantly goes to the flower, but we don't often think of rose as a color.

Reading this poem is extremely difficult because if you look at it as a whole, it makes no sense. But if you look at each line individually, you begin to see patterns. To me, this line encompasses one of the pattern Stein is trying to get readers to notice. That pattern being the way you say certain words changes its meaning. For example, the line "Suppose misses misses." By repeating the word misses, it brings emphasis to the word and it's double meaning. It could mean that you miss someone, or it can refer to a woman.

Although very late into the poem, we are finally introduced to Elsie, who the poem is addressed to. Right away it is revealed that she is part of the working class, as she was to start working at fifteen.

By introducing her as "some Elsie" and not simply by her name, "Elsie," I think Williams is trying to make it known that her situation and experience was a normal occurrence. Elsie can be interchangeable with any other girl during that time, going through similar, if not the same, circumstances.

"Pure products" seems to reference traditional values or ideals of America and the mention of "mountain folk," "ribbed north end", and "isolate lakes and valleys" are the result of when we divert from tradition. The choice of using pure to describe traditional America and crazy to describe non-traditional America leads me to believe Williams is critiquing the changes he sees.

He has two personalities and his aware of his doubleness. To fit in with the working class in the South of the Slot, he picked up their mannerism, but knows that that behavior/personality is not socially accepted in the North. So, when he is in the North he changes back to his other personality, while in the South he can have more freedom to do the things he came to love.

Freddie was already an outsider when he began living and working in the South of the Slot because people could tell he was different from them. This alienation continued as his drive to work harder and earn more money caused the working class that had been there for decades to be angry at him because he was essentially taking away their business. Still, not being from there, he could not understand why people were mad at him.

Motif of doubleness: the North of the Slot and the South of the Slot. The North seems more upscale and wealthier, while the South is more working class with the factories. There's a class divide, like how DuBois mentioned there was a divide, or veil, that separated him from his white classmates.

Delphinium are known to be a type of poisonous plants, so with the subject of the poem stalking the delphinium, he is essentially stalking death, or maybe death is stalking him? Then the second line says "unthorned into the tending hand," but "the hour will come." I think this means that no matter how much you tend to an illness or your health, one day death will find you, which is very morbid to think about.

There's a sense of isolation that the "Man" is faced with even in his death. "None to mourn him" suggests that he had on one when he was alive and was isolated from everyone, which is a really sad way to live. I think that everyone wants to have someone mourn and miss them when they die.

At the beginning it sounded like the speaker is warning the readers away from love, but then at the end they have a change of heart. I think the message is even though you may not need love to survive, and love may bring you misery, you should still experience it.

There's a haunting nature to these lines. The narrator points out that other people's failure will always haunt those who are on the same path and want to succeed. It is similar to the haunting motif in the "Dead Village." Although everyone is gone, their memory still haunts the village, so the past will always be haunting the future.

By taking the road less people take, the narrator is opening themselves up to alienation. This is similar to the women in "The Yellow Wallpaper," because unlike those around her she chooses the more creative path and thus is alienated by her husband and others who see things more in the scientific eye.

The fence that separates the narrator and their neighbor, alienates them from one another. This reminds me of the veil between DuBois and the other kids in his class. The "veil" or "fence" keeps them at a distance from one another and divides them.

The poem centralizes around the idea that one day the end will come for everyone and the choices you make are solely yours and not anyone else's. These two lines are examples of two different ways of thinking, and I think Frost is trying to say that no matter which way of thinking you follow, just make sure that it works for you.

The narrator is very aware of how other perceive him and the decisions he makes, so he says that he would never build a wall without thinking about who he would offend. The neighbor is the opposite and likes to have the fence to keep a divide between the two, no matter what anyone says. I think it says a lot about human nature, how some people are set in their ways, while others adhere to what those around them say,

This made me think about the decisions we make in our life and how one small decision can change your whole life. Decisions have consequences, whether good or bad. We don't know the results of our decision until we made it, and we don't know what would have happened if we made a different decision.

Mr. Flood seems like a sad, lonely old man who is just waiting for the day he dies. It seems that all of his friends have already passed away and he is the last one. I think it points to the isolation many older people feel when their family and friends have all passed on and they're the only one left.

There's a sense of nostalgia here. The speaker returns home after a long time and find that his friends or people her knew are still there and nothing has really changed. It reminds me of going back to my hometown in Vietnam and feeling like I have changed a lot, but not much has changed there.

This is the second time the poem talks about the men and children that used to live in the village, but there are no mentions of women in the village. Did Robinson intentionally not mention the women that lived in the village or was their just no women to begin with?

Literature is a powerful tool that allows people to experience life through different perspectives. Not all authors write about happy things, and I think this question is essentially asking why write about the bad or evil things that occur in the world. There are some people who choose to live in ignorance so reading about the evil that occurs in the world forces them out of their bubble.

The speaker seems really satisfied with their life and all that they have accomplished. I think most people's goal in life is to feel content and satisfied with their life once they reach old age, so that when they passed, they have no regrets or unfinished business.

Seeds have the potential to grow into something beautiful if it is tended to properly, but the Masters writes that the seeds are in a dry pod. Masters could be saying that the poet has so much potential when it comes to writing poems, but he is not nurturing his skill correctly to let it g=flourish.

The women in the wallpaper could represent the narrator and other women of the period who felt trapped in their marriage. The women coming out of the wallpaper mean they are breaking the social norm and becoming more than what people expect of them.

This description allows us to get an insight into John and the narrator's relationship. Although they are married, he views her as a child that needs to be taken care of. His child-like treatment of her can also be seen when he gives her nicknames, such as "blessed little goose," and makes decisions for her.

The house is described as a picturesque place. It is rather grand, which eludes that she and her husband are well off since he is a doctor. The house is miles away from the villages, and "the hedges and walls and gates that lock" keep any unwanted guests out. Being a doctor, her husband, John, has an image to uphold and having a sick wife may not be good for his reputation. Thus, renting this house for the summer so she can rest and overcome her "illness" may also be a way for others not to find out that she is unwell.

I think this is a problem many second-generation Americans face today. It's almost like having two identities and not knowing which one you belong to. In the case of Dubois and other African Americans, they were born and raised in American, but don't have the privileges of Americans because of the color of their skin.

The phrase "silent hatred" stood out to me because we often don't let others know when we hate something or someone, especially if most people don't have an issue with that person or thing. When it comes to racism, there is already a power imbalance between the minority and majority race, so many minorities mistrust the majority race. Still, they don't outwardly express their mistrust or hate in fear of retaliation.

Before this moment, he did not think he was different than the other kids. It's sad that one interaction with one person can change his whole outlook on life and reveal the "veil" that separated people based on the color of their skin.

In many cultures, women are celebrated as powerful figures, but in America during the 1900s women had very little rights and seen as objects. Fig-leaves often refers to covering up something that is embarrassing or distasteful. So, when women are able to ignore society and be who they want to be, they are able to show their powerful self. But the more they listen to society's expectations, the more they hide themself away to fit into societal norms.

Everyone has differing opinions on what something means. So, when Adams was able to come up with his own definition of what the Dynamo meant, he was able to understand it more.

Langley was able to understand the Exhibition in a way that Adams could not, but he was not able to explain it so that Adams could understand it. It's kind of like if a teacher teaches you a math formula, but doesn't teach you how to use it, you won't be able to solve any problems.

This line reminds me of "the apple doesn't fall from the tree." People usually assume that you will become a version of your parents/family and it's hard to break free from that stigma, but it's possible with hard work.

The poem depicts the struggles of the working class, and his line really sums up the message of the poem. In order to rise above from where they come from, they have to juggle multiple things at a time.

Acid and rage both have negative connotations. Acids can be harmful, so acids of rage really depict the level of rage the author is trying to convey.