This whole section took a total turn from going about nature to now this clairvoyante. This line is interesting in particular because I know people who do Tarot card readings and there is no blank card. Now there's this sense of mystery of what really is on this card, if anything. He says that there isn't the more deadly cards on this but why carry this card then if there isn't anything on it? Does it mean he can determine his own fate?

It's interesting how he gives this juxtaposition of night and day with your shadow. During the day, the shadow is longer and it is behind you but during the evening, that's when shadows are shorter. When he says it comes to meet you, it's like all your problems during the day are what is coming to you at night.

Most people love spring and summer because the sun is out and the birds are chirping but I was just arguing with a friend that winter is better. You do feel cozy and there's a joy in the silence of everything. Spring and summer just get too hot that you can't take off your skin when it gets down to that degree as opposed to winter where you can just keep putting layers on and it's comfortable.

This poem just sounds like she's just in her own head and having all these thoughts come to her suddenly.

Honestly, it sounds like random observations being made. It's as if she is sitting there, people watching. It definitely reminded me of when shows and movies do the whole musical scene based off of random sounds that people are making throughout the scene.

This line reminded me of this album/band cover art

This line already struck me from the beginning, even after reading the title. In a way it's kind of like she's already saying that no one knows of this death except the sea on which this male figure may have died on. Any time I read about the sea or the earth, it's as if mother nature is what takes us in when we die, thus being the only one to mourn when people die. All our loved ones will also continue to pass on and only mother earth will be truly affected by it.

I like how the author of the poem starts to list all the physical things that love cannot do and goes into about how it can be a nagging feeling. Then she makes it as if love were a physical object to sell for some peace in the sense of not having to suffer from that feeling.

I too had to look up that phrase and actually listened to auld lang syne, which I was surprised to hear it to the tune that is used for New Years. It actually put this poem more into perspective about preserving these friendships that slowly disappear after years either to death or distance. It says he was alone again and that strangers now shut the door even though he had friends long ago. Basically these strangers are not going to want to be friends with someone who is now old and that things change.

This can be very relevant to today considering all the events that have been occurring. People need to be informed of everything so we don't make mistakes, even if the truth isn't a good truth. This whole poem makes it sound like it is destroying something valuable from someone who is intellectual.

Seeing how this poem is discussing the patterns and styles of poetry, he is also discussing the genres since most poems follow a certain pattern. Most poems tend to be happy instead too.

Obviously this is a bit of foreshadowing for later in the story but it's interesting how John still picks this room after her having hysteria and such. In a way, he's already planning to keep her in there.

These two lines are especially interesting because she says how he didn't want one room because there isn't space for two bed or a place for him to escape to if he doesn't feel like being next to her. There is obviously a separation between the two, emotionally and physically, but she does not accept it with the next line saying how he is careful and loving.

Even though she is stating that her husband is a physician, she believes he's not helping in getting her to feel better. I feel like that happens a lot in our world. Sometimes experts in certain areas just make things worse because they know there are worse things out there. For their marriage, it just seems like something that would make it worse between the two.

This reminded me of when Adams talks about both forces being interchangeable, even though Langley believes that one is old school and no longer as valid as compared to science, which is a new form of thinking. Du Bois believes that both ways of thinking have something to offer one another, and in this sense it's both the oppressed Negro soul and the ones who have adapted to the American ways. He wants both to coexist.

Like Adams, Du Bois has received certain education or has learned about specifics, but cannot always apply it. There are skills that are learned in school, which can not always translate well into the real world. They're going to learn things that can make them superior to others since they got this education but sometimes they will be inferior because the world is not completely black and white.

This reminds me of the two types of thinkers, especially when it comes to religion. You have the people who believe the religion for everything that it is and then you have the ones who can believe in it but still tend to question the meanings behind it all.

Sometimes the ideas that we can visually see or even touch impresses us more than something we can't. Both items are moving in the same way, revolving and not making a sound but because he can see it, it appeals to him more. In the line right before with the Christians and the cross, not everyone believed Jesus about his messages until he was crucified and the clouds opened or something like that, which some people were able to believe now since they saw the message from God.

This can exhibit two types of thinkers/learners. You have one who looks for the deeper insight to things and the other who can be seen as a dreamer. Both are learning but they are learning about different things, perhaps two different perspectives on the same thing.

I like the beginning of this already because knowledge is something most people try to grasp. There is so much to learn that I don't think anyone could know everything. Is he calling himself the best-informed man though?

I feel like Levine is seeing that the black are working so hard to get to where they are now and that they're going to keep "feeding" off this rage that they've felt all these years after being slaves. Even though they are no longer slaves, he feels as if people can have their "sins" forgiven for that reason.