Moloch is the city.

Viewing poverty through the lens of the death of genius is a really interesting take - I'd love to see a whole poem examining this image.

Another example of Ginsberg using the poem to examine/criticize capitalism.

Baltimore, Oklahoma, Houston... this poem really captures the Beat movement's fixation on roaming, movement, and exploration, as seen in books like Jack Kerouac's On The Road

Ginsberg and his contemporaries are part of a culture (including a drug/party culture) that is so divorced form convention that the American experience is, to them, a trip, a hallucination.

Takes the modern convention of "baring your soul" and flips it to give a different sense and play with alliteration.

Taken from home and transplanted into a vacuum where his identity is invalidated and oppressed.

I think it's important to note the choice of the work taken, as it helps build the parallel Johnson is presenting between the man she sees dancing and the sand.

Sunsets, palm-trees, lotus flowers, sighing stars, the moon... all gentle, calm images that hold a sense of stillness and of dignity, which serves as a stark comparison for the violence and indignity of minstrel shows.

This is that movement usward brought back. The strength in entity is the product of that movement.

Directing the subjects of her poem to move toward each other, and toward a collective identity and power.

Another "Strong" man.

The intersection of music and community provides solace and relief for the people in the poem.

Interesting that the keys are black and yellow, not black and white. Another indication of things being run down, old, and in use for a long time. Despite this, though, Ma Rainey pulls a big crowd every time.

I wasn't familiar with this term so I looked it up. A "flivver" is defined as "a small, cheap, usually old automobile" Brown's adaptation of the noun "flivver" into a verb "flivverin'" stands out to me as a really interesting use of language.

I love this final line, because it's just vague enough in its imagery that it opens the reader up to lots of questions. What does it mean for a dream to explode? Does the word hold a positive or negative connotation? There's a lot of interesting avenues of thought that stem from this line for me.

These lines remind me of the Aaron Douglas painting, "God's Trombone".

(My laptop appears to be resisting the insertion of photos in the annotations, despite my best efforts)

Hughes is echoing the same assertion of beauty that he writes in his manifesto.

This haunted description of the room reminds me of ![The Yellow Wallpaper] (http://teaching.lfhanley.net/english528fa19/texts/charlotte-perkins-gilman-the-yellow-wallpaper-1892/). There is a common sense of buildings have thoughts and feelings of their own, and of walls having the ability to reach out to those who live between them. It's certainly a gothic description.

Elliot's call-back to a previous time, far-removed from our modern world, within the context of a modern poem, gives the piece an extra sense of foreboding. The drowned sailor seems to represent not only despair, death, or a watery grave, but the long-dead and long-lost. This borrowing from another time is something I also identified in the Matis painting, Le Lux II. The use of semi-two dimensional figures, in static positions primarily oriented facing forwards or to the side, and in front of a warm-toned neutral background, felt very reminiscent of ancient Phoenician or Egyptian art, while still being avante-garde.

Drowned sailor - further use of imagery of the sea.

Is there any significance to the wind and sea, symbols of nature, being depicted in German?

Which arch-duke is this in reference to?

Stein clearly likes to play with words, break them up to see how they retain or lose their sounds/meanings.

Free association using sound, especially alliteration, as a driving force for the poem.

Poetic school of imagism - using the poem to paint a picture of a specific scene, in that moment

The way one might begin a note to someone familiar.

Second line of each stanza is always especially short, placing emphasis on certain words and phrases.

WIlliams was a professional doctor. His poems appear to be decorated with imagery/experience taken directly from his life.

Where Williams is from.

the people are the products?

1906

Second self/mask you wear for the public.

really effective sibilance!

This person died young.

Uses the same measured, even tone to suggest an irrational notion (and the anthesis to what the poem has established) that love will always be the speaker's most pertinent feeling.

Cosmic design/God's will.

Equating bugs to the infestations they can cause.

Use of repetition feels like a more modern poetic device, indicating the beginning of a shift in the way popular writers were structuring their poems.

Capturing beauty in simple living.

The foundation for any cultural moral identity.

Illinois

Mr. Flood ruminating on the impermanence of life. His friends are long gone, and loss can make you question the solidity and lasting structure of all things, even the earth.

Where to go? Forward or back? His physical positioning in the poem lends weight to the subject matter at large.

The insanity she slips into is oddly liberating for her.

Searching for any form of mental stimulation/excitement/control.

Doubleness! A self she presents to the world/society/her husband and a self that is honest about how she is feeling, a written self.

A real guy! He developed the "rest cure" which is just a nice way of saying he developed and popularized the practice of restricting people (almost always women) who had been diagnosed with "hysteria" to their rooms and homes and limiting their stimulation and social interaction; sometimes this included being restricted to their bed and force fed.

His discomfort has more value than her own.

obnoxiously patronizing

If John (and men, on a larger scale) are the ones who determine what is reasonable, then a woman's anger towards a man is always going to be viewed as "unreasonable"

Practicality, rationality, and an analytic rather than emotion-based approach to life are all traditionally viewed as masculine qualities.

The end of slavery in no way brought about the end of racism.

Here, Dubois articulates that there have always been black Americans who have brilliant minds, create incredible art, engage in brilliant thought, etc. but that the larger white audience they are culturally forced to cater toward cannot or will not accept depictions of the black experience, and these artist cannot and should translate their work into something more fitting for the a white audience, creating a sort of double edged sword.

Here Dubois is acknowledging the tendency for white people, particularly within American culture, to avoid the topic of race or to refuse to acknowledge the struggles of people of color in order to avoid discomfort with those facts.

Americans rarely recognize that other ways of thought can also have value.

The underestimating of the Virgin's power limits the artist's use of her and of her image.

American thought rarely extends beyond the surface.

"in a dirty engine-house carefully kept out of sight..." gives insight into the sometimes gritty or dirty realities behind many of the exhibits in the Great Exposition, which presents a larger-than-life, glamorous facade.

Hunting wild boar? Those are in the south, right?

"West Virginia to Kiss My Ass" communicates (to me) that being from this place means that the rest of the world is the Other, people to care less about because they aren't from home or are perceived to not care about you.