Feels like an instruction manual of sorts - not necessarily a bad thing - poetry can inspire further act just as well

How does one explain the words/wisdom/ways of God to men just like speaker?

One who began it all

All beginning of sentences are capitalized

Not the first, but it's SO helpful that so many of these phrases or words are underlined and embedded. Without that, I would probably be MUCH more lost...What's the importance of doing this? (Could be post question)

Death is unexpected and not when it is "needed"

Multiple mentions of "weight"? What weight is this exactly?

LOTS of talk about his wings. What might be the significance? Upon research: symbolize freedom and spirituality This character however, seem to be more involved with devilish acts and "hell"

Is it fair to say that when a woman's "breast" is described it is portrayed as being soft rather than strong, and then on a mans, it is "imperceable" and strong?

So is he half man, half horse? OR is there a man on a horse and the description is just weird?

Going after heaven, dies, and then is described as being "hell"? A bit ironic or coincidental?

Going after the heavens rather than those on the ground? Maybe because the heavens are already seen as strong, while the grounds aren't as strong. Too 'easy' of a target? Wants more of a challenge?

I feel like we're spending a LOT of time talking about this dudes wings...More expansion to keep the story on the longer side? I've done this in essays before ha...ha...ha

Tricky, cause I originally read this as "night", not "knight".

Almost seems like half man, half beast thing?

Yet another "beast" coming out, using his "hand" at night - Have we almost ever seen a villain like character coming out night?

Parents gave foundation, but now they're causing the shake and uneasiness

What difference does it make to have "(quoth she)" or "(said she)" rather than actually quotation marks? I feel as though Old English still used quotation marks? Maybe I'm wrong in assuming so?

Edit: Did research and it seems they did use quotation marks. Why isn't Spenser using them then?

Native soil? Where you/the speaker originates from - lots of mentioning of "parents"

As if the "parents" did poorly on the with the foundation of the kingdom, so now their children have reparations to do.

Like any game that involves killing people and fighting for....Anyone specifically besides the urge inside us to fight and kill even though we can't in 'real' life...As my roommate is currently playing GTA that involves stealing cars, killing/shooting people, manipulation, gang violence, stereotypes ALL over the place

What makes putting into a game like D&D justifiable? At least in some eyes. Or maybe they don't even realize what really going on? Or what they're involving themselves in and supporting it

Generational differences: values, opinions, views on other generations before and after their own - can either seek out and understand them or completely judge them and not understand whatsoever. What affects can different generations have on one another?

"Sure, I may want to 'appear' rich, but when does it become a bigger stereotype and more or less a backhanded remark?"

Cause we've neeeeever talked about that...lol

Pearly gates?

Any tie to how he and his lady are falling apart - so is he?

There's some light, but also shaded (a shadow of the self?)

Difference between having a "fire" inside you versus escaping to the "darksome hole". Shows that someone could first have the fire, while then changing to that darkness

Quote?

Thickest woods: representative of someone's full/cluttered mind? Maybe why there is so much mention to singular trees and more

Why does the translation seem to be getting better? Or is that just me

More trees...

Significance to relating to trees? What do each symbolize ( Pine, Cedar, Elme/Elm, Oake/oak, Aspine/aspen, Cypresse/cypress)?

What is the significance or tie to "lambs" and "innocence"? Where has this been seen before?

Like she backed him? Not literally "rode" beside him...Or maybe?

What is significance of italicized words, if any?

Literal wounds? (Physical) or emotional scars (Mental, emotional)?

Little bit of a contrast

Always interesting that books and poetry and such start with capitalized lettering. Especially the "TO" and whoever the book is addressed to

Believable or nah?

Well that was easy

Like a secret pact between them

Rumors - truth...or not?

Like when most stories are told - or when characters/people don't want to be seen, heard

Can't tell who his "loyalty" is really for - those he "tru[ly] loves" or himself

The truth is important

What a nice thought and statement that is SO true

A strange feeling to be thankful to have anything to do with cancer...But in this case, as well as many others, understandable

Body parts, especially breasts, and women specifically can have a major effect on how we see or are seen as "beautiful".

There are multiple, different, times in a persons life that brings up this issue - whether post pregnancy, general body changes, insecurity of "style", or a major surgery like a mastectomy

Fun how being around other people can change the way we dress. Of course, for someone like President - then Senator - Barack Obama, you might want to dress prrreetty well versus how you might otherwise for any ordinary job interview or first date.

Fun and interesting image

Now that's a handful and a half

Get you a man who: ! !

Left breast versus both...I've heard sometimes having both removed is 'better' than one. I wonder if that is only true for some women. I could never understand.

Adds a sense of comedic relief, can tell this person is trying to give a lighthearted account of what happened to her - much 'easier' to write and read sometimes in comparison to the darker part of this

Image on top of essay adds to power of piece, gives someone to visualize while reading

Maybe to escape his other 'life'? A way of transformation, but not to the fullest extent because they return to their 'natural'/original form

;) ;) Maybe she's a furry

Why a week? A full moon usually only lasts 3 days. Maybe because he needs to find his way back home from wherever he traveled? Get some clothes?

Knew it!

Is he the "garwolf"? What's the difference between a "werewolf"?

Rhyme starts to change in a way

Been passed on for generations - it's "old"

I didn't even notice the rhyme until my second read thru...

This being the speaker, while quotation is "earth-stepper", maybe a human? Ordinary or not

Lots about the "ocean" or "sea", in this poem and Wife's Lament - curious what importance it has. Maybe a sense of being lost?

Is her "beloved" someone separate from her "husband"? Seems like they can't exactly be the same people with the way she's described them.

"nothing but death due us part" - from wedding vows

Not a request, an "order"

nothing greater than the present? What has happened was led speaker to this point

"undermine" especially sticks out here

Comes up a lot...

Easier than seeing what it "is"

Like the fluidity of queerness ?

Is there any possible way that it can be?

Entities: "Exist in relation..."

They all pile and compile off of one another! Like everything in the world and especially so in this class!

"strange" - like a "strange stranger"??

When we see it for what it really is

"inhabit" makes me think of blending in, in a sense. Or fitting in? Become an inhabitant somewhere?

Heeeeyyy! I know her ;)

Basically causes "rugged individualism, phallic authoritarian sublime, and an 'allergy' to femininity in all forms".

Or else you could miss something...

a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.

Can't be anything else but a "man" or "woman"...Hmm sure

How would the forests even begin to "deserve" something, especially "protection"??

Damn, that hits hard

Ecology:

Great...

Asking the reader, wish I could do this in some of my essays...Especially as of late

Heard that one before..

Because of its interconnection

Like the uncanny? Having the sense that something is familiar but becomes not so eventually? Or can't understand why it does so

Like black and white...meaning only has 'two' sides? Or really because of the "darkness" aspect?

"high tolerance"

Because everything "must" or usually does?

Is the ecological world "not positive" because it's not particularly "optimistic"? Possibly out of the bigger picture naturally not being something overly 'nice'?

And seeing bigger...

Because it all interconnects - finds it way around, like a circle or infinity symbol?

"What counts"

The UNCANNY

The look of it makes people uncomfortable? Is the discomfort a part of not being "natural" or "looking natural"?

What exactly does it 'mean' to "look natural"?

Hey ! ! ! Like Kincaid's essay

Like what we repress, what the id, ego and superego 'protect' us from

Sounds familiar ;)

OOF

There's no clear end to it

It's actually what "separates" us rather than"embedding" us together

Don't like to admit it? Acknowledge it?

Taking every single thing into consideration

Is 'Nature' providing that "order"?

Provided a look into what might just be "perfection", but we can never actually obtain/hold that

Like a "double"?

Is Nature a sort of hindrance?

It is the now

What has been set out for us, our so-called "paths" like form that concreteness

If we avoid thinking of something as a whole, all it is, that becomes a problem?

Like a virus...

It's stuck in there, becomes part of us

Like theories before it! Structualism? No about the what, but the how

How does one "let go" of nature?

All becomes intertwined

The 'post'

'Human' emotion

Repetition compulsion to clean!!

What an interesting thought that Earth itself could be a "code".

Love this freakin movie!

Almost wanted to put "what is considered 'nonhuman'?" but I'd like to think that means animals and/or plants, objects?

Ecology - connected to nature? Connected to human beings

I'm sure because it gives a sense of comfort - becoming more aware and familiar with something provides a sense of ease once something is more or less known better

Everything goes off everything, like signifier/signified?

We are ALL women, no matter our seemingly apparent differences

Because they are possibly attempting to help themselves, give themselves a better chance and sometimes even there are others struggling it's difficult to help everyone

Because most times we aren't told that it's particularly "wrong".

'Helps' those who aren't seen, be seen more often as they are attempting to fit in to which is seen as culturally sound - or at least that's what they're told is such

Sometimes its easier than trying to please those who see us as less than...

Because we can never "truly" stand together? Because despite all of those of us who are women still have differences? So is there no way for us to unite in the end?

Because there's almost always a "dominant" group, but does this always have to be so when it comes to women?

This is the part that stumps me, in Lorde's writing especially. In many cases people unknowingly and unintentionally see people "differently". Part of me gets frustrated, especially between groups of women, because sometimes people really do it unintentionally...but maybe I am just speaking as someone who is white and female

Another thing people attempt to do, but it isn't always resulted as being positive or viewed as such

We certainly 'try' to be

Don't find many men like that...

Interesting how she's made from "Adam's rib" and you say that she "bends to Adam's will", kinda ironic sounding

But women are involved too?? It takes two people!

At least that gives her some right, but it isn't quite what deserves

How dare she?? Ugh...

Because women are believed to fall under the words of men - or are expected to. If it is positive, then women "should" appreciate it heavily, but that certainly isn't always the case and shouldn't be!

It's interesting how people seem to sort of incessantly ask about Paco, but I believe because of how female orientated this film is, men are not a huge concern by the looks of it. And Raimunda says that he's the one that left and everyone just goes with it - maybe not to question her and the possibility that it could upset her if they pushed more? Or it invites the idea of women and their power to not need men (as they aren't present too much in this film).

Agreed

Question is, will this similar trauma follow Paula, similar to how it did with Raimunda? Or because Paco isn't really her father, will that make a difference? Will Raimunda carry this trauma too? Or did it resolve things, more so than complicate them?

I thought of it as more of a protection of Paula, and not because of Raimunda's similar trauma.. Hmm..

Do we know this for sure? Maybe I'm just forgetting

Repetition-compulsion usually is outside the awareness of who is doing so; similar to the uncanny (of course).

This is common in other relationships too, whether it is a partner or a friend(ship)

Now that makes more sense, but at first we don't know exactly why she seems visibly upset by the fact that he does this. It isn't until the end of the film that her childhood trauma is revealed. I wonder if this could be part of the uncanny? Being aware that those actions related to her trauma upset her, but we (as the audience) aren't exactly sure why until the ending.

In order to protect Paula

Agreed

Of course, it isn't until the end

Translation

!! differentiating lenses does SO much to most or just about everyone

Such a stereotype! Even I thought that before taking Rethinking Early American Lit

Sounds like most canons in English literature...and more. Takes me back to Rethinking Early American literature and discussing over...and over what 'deserves' to be in it and what doesn't

Is this still showing she's reliant on a man? Or is there some kind of improvement

Thank god, I thought she wasn't going to make it

Interesting how this being said by a female character, as if it's more soothing than if it was from a man

is this anyway close to being more personal than it seems?

Does this make them lucky? Would they stand out because people would notice their 'differences' from themselves and make sure it was known

Sacrifice, showing Eliza with some more power instead of weakness as before. Maybe because being a mother is more powerful as she is if she wasn't?

If their children don't protect themselves, they'll need someone, definitely their mothers

Because of how often she is seen being fearful of just about everything, is this very accurate?

Multiple examples including this one that shows she really does care about George, and only wants what is best even if it doesn't include her possibly

Interesting use of word choice, why would he be buying them instead of just coming for them? Doesn't seem very much like family, but owning them too

Like in The Heroic Slave

Thrown back into reality from conversation with Misses earlier.

What?! How tf

! ! ! Exactly

All too common in the world we live in today

Definitely losing faith, is this going to put a divide between them? Or does she agree, since she has been doubtful. Maybe they'll fight it together, which may lead to worse things

He doesn't care about anything, he sees just about everything as inferior and that's that.

How would that signify whether she's Christian or not? Maybe that's what has been drilled into her head that it's the expectation. Also agree with a comment above that religion is usually used as a type of escape tool while here it's being feared, or causing fear

I imagine if he gives up, she will most likely do the same because of how she looks up to him and relies on him so heavily. I still believe that he's also saying about death for himself and Harry out of wishing they weren't put through what they are currently going through..If they weren't alive, then they wouldn't have to 'deal' with it all

Eliza is portrayed as weak multiple times, then also literally leaning on her husband's shoulder and relying on him

Harsh, but it seems like it is more out of the thought of his 'protection'. The fact that he's even alive and already a slave at his age, automatically puts him in danger. I don't think George meant it out of being mean, but that he's afraid for his son's life.

Each Chapter has a focus

It's free on your side

Probably made her question her beliefs, why it happened to her, her husband and the passed children who had no choice

No wonder the men taking away their children don't understand why they react the way they do..They don't know what they've been through, and like Eliza could have already lost children before

Almost like a snake wrapping itself around it's prey/victim

He practically needs control and power, he'd probably burst just as similar to a volcano if he didn't

Without the slaves, the owners wouldn't feel as sense of being powerful. If there were machines in their place then all they would have is 'ordinary' machines that they can't really control

"Why build a machine when you already have staked claim over people and viewed them as animals"???

ownership, sees it as the opportunity to stake his claim and show he's in control - has the ability to be too

Seen as a threat, and his master is able to take that away from him in such a way that there's almost no chance of repeating that fear

power dynamics, insecurity

heavier focus on Shelby rather than the "trader" Haley

Religion !

Using her married name