About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
suffering is explained to happen in the moments thats not noticable
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
I can picture my own frustration with this stanza
All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home, Their women cluck like starved pullets, Dying for love.
ashamed to go home because they spent their whole day focued on a game with other men and not their wives
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood, And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel, Dreaming of heroes.
competitive view on football fans, with some racial banter
Dream” makes a giddy sound, not strong
I believe they want to emphasize how weak a dream is compared to necessities or obligations.
But could a dream send up through onion fumes Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes
Describing the unpleasant aromas in the building and how unwell kept it signifies an urban building in the gentrified community, where tourists don’t wonder much.
Comforted
comfort meaning her humbling view that this is enough to make her happy satisfied with this one simple thing while others need more to be happy
They taste good to her They taste good to her. They taste good to her
emphasizing the tasting good i believe signifies that this is what makes her happy satisfices her needs
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
her personality is also an issue not only her voice
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.
The author is disbelieved to the fact as to why she finds his mistress good enough to love when she compares to nothing that stands for beauty or grace
Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.
I believe that here the person is realizing that death can not be avoided but accepted it
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue
I believe she is referring to her capture, she's in love with but is unsure as to why and why she allows the tourment