How can one connect nothing with nothing...if there is nothing there to connect?

Earlier he talks about profit and loss we can see this as a positive and a negative and later on he mentions how he has risen and fallen and it becomes a positive and a negative again.

His own take on the spanish tragedy?

When she says "think" here is she actually telling this person to think about all the different times she has never known what they are thinking or is she just emphasizing the fact that she never knows what this person is thinking?

the word mixing reminds me of the previous class session we had when we were talking about mixing the pure with the "tainted"/unaccepted

All these "next to" is making me feel very anxious and rushed. Is this the writer's intention? To have their reader feel rushed?

Towards the end of this piece with the word robber, aiming and blow could blow possible represent a gun shot? Or just represent "the end" metaphorically?

Although the author has explained that Henry was first the hand then that Willie is the hand, we still see that the author repeats Henry's name after. I wonder why that is? Who are all these named individuals?

Love, something that is being explained of fading over time. For example the rose that eventually dies, or the snow that eventually melts.

Love, something that is being explained of fading over time. For example the rose that eventually dies, or the snow that eventually melts.

Like last class we were talking about how the mother is the nurturer and often the one to be expected to tend to the children.

When I think of the word clipping I think of scissors cutting something up. It makes me think that this last sentence in the poem is trying to cut up and remove something from the years.

This line reminds me of what we spoke in class on Tuesday on having unasked questions. The fact that she is going to just let it go and not allow herself to ask herself the questions to help her through her situation is going to affect her negatively. As well as continue on allowing her husband to tell her whats best for her.

tying it back to our previous class where we spoke about learning through watching the effect things have on the people around us.

This reminds me of our last class when speaking about Henry Adams and the term epistemology. How Du Bois knows he is different, is by the effect of this one girl refusing his card.

I can only imagine this being a strange experience due to the fact he does not consider himself to be a problem, although the world around him thinks other wise.

Very sad how you don't come to care or think about something until you experience it first hand yourself, I suppose it has always been like that..

This idea that this sequence, order of events are leading nowhere, almost makes me think of a dead end.

This sentence reminds me of our class session this past Tuesday, the dynamo may be a symbol of advancing forward but just keeping in mind that the things that move us forward may also destroy us.

I believe this is not only emphasizing his many tasks but just goes to show that his boss does not see him as a thinking human being but simply as a mechanical object that can only benefit him through labor. I believe his "five arms" are his 2 arms, legs and head. This goes to show that they do not even care about what he is thinking or feeling, he is dehumanizing himself.

Out of all these mechanical, chemical filled things this Lion is becoming alive. It is not a real, warm blooded lion, but instead it is filled with sacks, rage, tar..etc

Candor means honesty and openness. For me, Levine uses tar as a way to show that the truth is being covered up. Tar is used to create roads and essentially covers up the natural ground. You can only cover something up for so long until the truth comes out.