fixed eyes of wonder and admiration on this lovely girl,
theme- admiring innocence
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feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend, Margaret:
(spoilers oops) like frankenstein feels
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diffusing a perpetual splendour.
so hopeful! so naive!
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What struggle to escape?
escape what?
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Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
'innocence'/'purity'
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When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
timeless, eternal
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The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed
hands usually feed, hearts usually mock. this might signify the reversal of fates/roles- the sculptors art lives on, while the King's is gone.
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Wreck,
wreck is capitalized, personified
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stamped on these lifeless things,
lifeless things that represent life passed
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I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said
interesting to add the perspective, since its only there for a line and a half when it could be just his quote.
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See, I am shrouding my poor children; what a task for a mother!"
'shroud' she feels that her children are dying, and they may as well be, since she may never see them again
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You are my slaves,
its crazy that this sentence can be spoken in a caring way
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"Mary, you will have to go home directly; your master is going to be married, and he means to sell you and two of your sisters to raise money for the wedding." Hearing this I burst out a crying,--though I was then far from being sensible of the full weight of my misfortune, or of the misery that waited for me.
awakening toward the reality of her situation.
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It is essentially her own, without any material alteration farther than was requisite to exclude redundances and gross grammatical errors, so as to render it clearly intelligible.
its always important that the source is true and isnt revised to fit another person's agenda
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the insurers would pay out.
again, evil motivated by money. impossible to understand how anything could be worth doing this
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gathering evidence to support these claims
its hard to believe that people didnt know the reality of slavery
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moral right and the moral duty to resist their masters.
a difficult but necessary idea for revolution/change
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Quaker merchant.
i thought that Quakers were very anti-slavery?
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10% of the 1787-8 subscribers were women.
significant considering the time period!
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Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; 10 There’s not a breathing of the common wind
his actions agree with nature, align with higher powers than just men.
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the most unhappy man of men!
thats a pretty definitive statement
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By 1803 rebel forces were victorious and in 1804 the new and independent Republic of Haiti emerged.
Yay!
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the only Atlantic slave society which successfully defeated its oppressors
in ap world i remember how significant this revolution was, one of the very few to be started by slaves or workers, and not by the middle and upper classes with the resources
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aesthetic theories
aestheticism movement began in the late 1800s
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or it can testify to individuality simply by foregrounding the poet’s own subjectivity at its most idiosyncratic or experimental.
made art personal and without need of an acceptable agenda.
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Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
claiming that to be in touch with nature is to be in touch with gods/holiness
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Have glimpses
insights, less inhibition, less worries
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Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan
ironic, shows the speakers distress by mourning to god and saying theyd rather be a pagan in the same sentence
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will be howling at all hours,
'will be' because nature will outlast us
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lea,
an open area of grassy or arable land
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life's common way,
traveled the common way yet was like a star, pure as naked heavens, majestic, etc. If I had to guess, it sounds as if Milton was young and did not have time to grow beyond his innocence and purity. this poem seems personal, despite its grand descriptions.
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We are selfish men;
asking for forgiveness in hopes of help
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herself did lay.
personifying both England and Milton's heart as women/'her', showing the strong link between their interests?
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ps or skies.
Why is there a period here?
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Tyger Tyger
There isnt the same punctuation/comma as in the first stanza. This could be putting more agency in the hands of the tyger, and not his creator, so that we begin to see it not only as a creation but its own force? not sure
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What the hammer?
It's told almost exclusively through questions, so we know that the speaker is asking someone else about their creation. The repetition likely means they are not getting a response, so they are probably asking God.
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What dread hand? & what dread feet?
Throughout the poem there is a lot of emphasis on tangible, concrete things, especially the body. It reminds me (a little) of Frankenstein, the emphasis on creation and fear and beauty.
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