Is the speaker inviting the reader? Is the speaker giving a tour?

He clearly is using a metaphor rather than a literal plant. Or something went over my head.

Only a few weeks away. Let's keep this in mind as COVID-19 sweeps America and Toilet paper.

Not unless there is a revolution.

Since this physician has gone to school for medical, he probably has been schooled in other subjects. Maybe he has class consciousness.

Historically speaking, the working-class/proletariat are always seen by the bourgeois as dirty and smelly.

I agree with this statement. Writers should show the literary works not tell it.

To me it sounds like he is talking about Beat poetry

This seems like an appeal to authority. 'Notable' is also very vague. I think Terry Eagleton's 'How To Read Literature', is full of shit. I would not listen to any of his criticisms. But there will be many people ready to stand for him and set me on fire for not taking criticisms from him. Like a reader can't be a critique of literary work unless they themselves are writers?

It seems that Frost has reached a fork on the road.

I like this repetition from Frost.

In isolation, it seems that Flood is playing two dimensions of himself; one being that person in his mind and the other being the person that speaks. Flood gets lonely when he is silent, this is because the self that speaks has left while his person that thinks is still present in his head.

Maybe this is the reason why we speak out loud in certain situations. Imagine being lost in a dark cave. Some people might start talking to themselves out loud, not only to comfort themselves but to reason with the person in their head.

In the poem The Song of Roland, Roland was a hero who died fighting the the Saracens. He had an horn made out of elephant tusk which he blew whenever he needed help in battle.

It seems as if the speaker was living their life unaware of the true life of their village.

I wonder if Lee was referring to Walt Whitman.

Interesting how John view faith. It seems like his version of faith has to do with religion.

"Ancestral walls" reminds me of Bob Kaufman's Ancient Rains. Perkins probably means a home that has been passed down her family generations.

This is a very passionate section. I feel like Du Bois has a strong idea and hatred of both social and systemic racism that plagues Black people.

What does Du Bois mean when he says, "But alas! while the sociologists gleefully count his bastards and prostitutes,"? Who is he referring to?

What is the significance of the sequences he brings up? They might have a pattern in which direction humanity came from and where are they headed.

Well Adams, technically the French Revolution could be seen as a class war between the French proletarians and the bourgeoisie.

Is Adams trying to say that education creates ignorance from only teaching fact rather than allowing one to grow on what is already known?

In communist a "pig" is another word for the bourgeoisie, the capitalists who own the means of production.

Drive shafts are automotive components that convert torque from the transmission to the differential. Since Levine mentions gasoline and wooden dollies, I think it is safe to believe he is referring to workers from the automotive industry. This is tied with his first two lines, "Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter, Out of black bean and wet slate bread," because historically (even to this day), automotive workers get paid poorly which is why they have black bean and wet slate bread. Also, "bearing butter" is literally grease which you would apply inside differential gears.