Voices: The voices speak of a key that would either lock/unlock the prison they are in. Whether it is real and they believe it or just a fictitious rumor is either possibility. Yet it seems they want freedom from something. Un/natural time/Desire frustrated (maybe?): If their thoughts are mostly on this key, are they keeping track of the passing time other than day and night? How many days are spent in this prison they believe they are in? Exile: They seemed to be trapped in a prison, in search of a key that may or may not free them. Fragments: The lines go back to the key for three of the lines and prison for two lines. These moments seem to only pause when it is night. Text as plagarism/remixed (maybe?): Coriolanus was mentioned. After looking it up, one result was a tragedy Shakespeare wrote.

Voices: What I first noticed was how repetitive "HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME" was. It could possibly be a reminder to someone that they're running out of time...but for what? What exactly are they running out of time for? The moment when the narrator is saying goodnight, it almost seemed like a goodbye of sorts. Have they run out of time? The line "What you get married for if you don't want children?" could sound like someone who is nagging someone to have children because they think its what they should do and not give the person they are nagging (or at least not allowing them) a chance to explain why they don't want children. Desire frustrated: The question as to whether to have/want children is possibly one. Another possibly would be being able to have a warm/hot meal (of gammon/ham or whatever else they plan to eat) to eat stating in one line "to get the beauty of it hot". Yet there is still a sense of urgency with the possibility of running out of time. Un/natural time: Not exactly certain but in between the "HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME" lines that are repeated, it is mentioned that the day is Sunday and the time is around whenever they are having dinner. However afterwards, the narrator is saying goodnight to the others. Time could just be skipped over to the time everyone is going to sleep but what happened between those moments in time. Fragments: The moment seems fragmented by the somewhat constant reminder of "HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME". Women and men: The first noticeable part was where the marriage was questioned when the couple didn't want to have children (yet? at all?). Albert seemed to be important yet away for most of the time if him being home on a Sunday for dinner seemed to be worth noting. The people mentioned in the goodnight portion could be important to the narrator. Whether they are family, friends or possibly other people they know. Or they could be mentioned that there were other options for Albert, as if blaming the narrator for not wanting children when there isn't much of a reason as to why they don't want children unless it is possibly the reminder of "HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME" and they are already running out of time to safely conceive a child.

Is there an actual dead body buried in the ground as fertilizer? If it is, how deeply buried is it before the bones could be discovered? Or is it just a plant that died during the winter and its seeds have begun to sprout in the spring?

I wonder what colors they were. Could there be a secret meaning to the flowers given? Is there a secret characteristic to the "hyacinth girl"? The only one I'm mostly familiar with would be purple hyacinths which could symbolize as regret.

Is Spring cruelest to the earth? The ground beneath where plants grow spend the winter collecting nutrients and replenishing them in the soil, only for plants to grow and take away again.

I wonder if these muddy fields were for agriculture. Calling it a waste means that it isn't used if the weeds and standing water wasn't another clue. Someone could have started the fieldwork but got too sick or had to take care of someone who is sick to continue for the weeds to grow or for water to collect and leave puddles of standing water. Are there too many sick, tending to the sick, afraid to get sick, or inexperienced people to work the fields?

Just looking at the "brain the..." part, it seemed as if they were hit with the truth. With the line above, it appears as if someone else decided to tell their version of what they believe to be true and trying to make others believe it as well. Which would most likely be hard to believe if it was "about us". Older generations could potentially be hard to sway, but they could confuse the younger generations if their family says it's one way then what could potentially be strangers say it's another way.

Apparently(and according to Google) choke-cherry is a North American plant with bitter and/or acidic edible fruits. Viburnum is a shrub/small tree with clusters of small white flowers.

From what I can find about what Swinburnian could possibly mean, it could either refer to one of two people. It either refers to Algeron Charles Swiburne (English writer) or Richard Swiburne (British philosopher). I'm not exactly certain but it might be based on the writer.

Had to look it up because I was confused as to what some of the words meant, but roughly, free verse is using too many words to express what it wants to say.

Other than saying that the random people that pass by are being compared to ghosts, could they also be compared to the flowers blooming on the black bough? Based on pictures I looked up for a black bough, the flowers are usually bunched up in clusters like a crowd.

Was there no one who knew this nameless man if only the sea was there to mourn for him? Could it be that no one knew he died or no one cared about the fact he died? I wonder if the man died in sea/drowned if only the sea is the one to mourn him.

With the thorns being removed from the stalks, It makes it easier for someone to handle the flower. But if Millay is comparing a flower's thorns to armor, would it mean that it weakens the person (if Millay is comparing people to flowers)?

It kind of sounds like that even if the friendship is bought/fake, it's better than having no one to surround yourself with. Is it to feel important? Does the opinion of someone whose friendship you've bought matter as much as someone you share a genuine friendship with? Otherwise it would seem like the person is scared to have no one to be there regardless of the situation.

Could the woods be luring the narrator to rest before they get to their destination? Dark and deep sounds like how some would like their sleep to be sometimes (maybe...I'm not sure). Who are the promises for? Are they for someone the narrator is trying to meet? If not could the promises be to themselves and the last line is repeated as a reminder to keep going?

While there isn't much to get from who this 'he/him' the narrator is referring to, but if I were to guess, the person isn't around often, and most likely not during the wintertime if he's not there to see the narrator. Where else could the person be?

I was curious to what "bird is on the wing" meant. According to Google, the bird means time/mortality while "on the wing" means in flight/approaching. So it means that "time is in flight" or "death is approaching". If Mr. Flood were to "Drink to the bird"/death, does it mean he's accepting/acknowledging that his time is almost up?

Does Mr. Flood live in the hermitage since it "held as much as he should ever know"? Would it be forsaken if no one comes to visit? Did Mr. Flood decide to become a hermit because of his age?

While the narrator is concerned about the knowledge could be lost with what the community chose to do with it after his death. The narrator said he created the circulating library to grant them knowledge. I looked up what a circulating library was and apparently, it's a library where people had to subscribe to and pay fees to borrow the books. Then again, it isn't mentioned what became of the library after it was sold. However, what intrigued me was how the narrator said that selling it could destroy "the last vestige/Of my memory and influence." as if he was planning for the library to continue existing and he isn't forgotten after death.

Before I looked each up and found out they were a type/style/form of poem, I thought they were possibly flowers.

With John having Jennie supervise the narrator, it doesn't give much she could do to his approval that would result in a very good report. The narrator doesn't have someone she can confide in without that trust being broken. And because of her condition, John probably is claiming it's for her well-being. Yet at the same time, the narrator seems to be getting worse rather than better if she is left with her thoughts that she cannot write down because John said so.

I think Gilman describes the house this way (since John is most likely away to do work) is to possibly keep the narrator isolated from others who could possibly pick up on her condition. Is she truly alone? Are there others who tend to the house that she might be able to talk to (or are they not allowed to)? Or does she have an empty house all to her self?

If it has been untenanted for a long time, when was the last time it was tended to or had some sort of upkeep? If it's been unkempt, could it be another reason why the house seems haunted?

Looked up and found out peremptorily is similar to swiftly. which meant that the new girl only judged him by a single glance before judging him and deciding that she didn't want anything (the visiting card in this situation) from him. Yet based and the sentences before this, it seemed like it was supposed to one where everyone was included. If I were to guess based on how she refused to accept his card, he probably didn't get one from her.

Can the narrator distinguish where the mournful cries are coming from? The author makes it seem that it either comes from within or it comes from out in the sea. If it comes from within, does it mean there's some sort of pain that they don't want to address? If it's from the sea, then what could it be? Could it be a lulling siren song or just be the waves crashing along the shore?

I wonder how easily a timeline could be made out of histories, many things are happening at once unless a historian focuses on a specific place or time period. Many things could be the cause that results in one effect just as one cause could spiral into many effects.

From what I could find, fiat either means an authoritative decree or let it be done/let there be... Could it mean that the trust had to be there for electricity to work for it to continue in progress and how it's used?

Could it mean how the knowledge that a writer would impart in their work wouldn't be studied until someone decides to find importance in the work? Or could it mean that information could seem irrelevant at the moment until someone decides that it's important later?

The Lion growing could possibly mean that they have to grow their own set of fangs and/or claws to protect themselves. The muscles stretching and getting stronger to further improve the Lion's chances of surviving.

I could imagine what the first half could possibly appear like, how rage can burn up within someone. What stumped me for a moment was "the candor of tar" part of the line. Looking up what candor meant revealed to me that it meant to be frank/honest...how could a substance like tar be considered honest? Is tar honest in how it can potentially preserve whatever falls into a pit of it if it can? Could it mean the Lion is attempting to destroy or preserve something?