22 Matching Annotations
  1. Mar 2025
    1. Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me –

      During her life Emily Dickinson was sourounded by loss and illness, her favorite nephew, friends she grew up with or learned to love, and she even spent her last waking years taking care of her mother. And as such she constantly found herself in depressions, her wrightings often reflected this. Such as this one, the lines "Because I could not stop for death-- he kindly stopped for me" personalize this. As does the rest of the poem. She just wanted to peacefully live her life but death seemed to follow her wherever she went.

  2. Feb 2025
    1. It took dominion everywhere.    The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush,    Like nothing else in Tennessee.

      I belive the jar represents the industrialization of Tennesse, how it didn't give birth to anything new it was gray and bare, no longer wild, it spread everywhere. Such as industrialization, bringing no new wildlife tearing down the forests, building up places that where gray and bare. Forever losing parts of tennesses wild life, truley like nothing else in Tennesse.

  3. Jan 2025
    1. Either you’re sunk in the past, half our walk, thinking of what you never can bring back, or else you’re off in some fog concerning —tomorrow, is that what you call it?

      The author is trying to convey how we take life so seriously, alwasys either stuck in the past or being anxious about the next day. Never taking time to just live in the present. Unlike our dogs who for the most part can live life without a given care in the world.

    1. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is OzymandiasOzymandias Pharaoh Rameses II (reigned 1279-1213 BCE). According to the OED, the statue was once 57 feet tall., King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

      The poem is going almost from a third person perspective to a first person perspective, in a way demanding to be acknowledged ad the sculpture reads "the king of kings" while also keeping the sense of just being a story teller, telling a myth. It creates a unique take on creating a sense of power and dual point of views.

    1. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

      Throught the poem lines like "dying of the light" is directed towards an elderly person who is dying, and tellig them not to go just yet. To not go out gently, to hold on for a few days more, and too apreciate everything they have experianced in their life and everything they are continuing to experiance.

  4. Dec 2024
    1. he clock struck nine when I did send the nurse; In half an hour she promised to return. Perchance she cannot meet him — that's not so. O, she is lame! Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over louring hills

      In this scene Juliet is waiting news from the Nurse about her weading to Romeo, when the nurse arives she insinuates how out of breath she is, how ld she is and how she should not be having to go out like this anymore, and talks down on Juliets choice of marrying romeo, ultimatly delying the news of what will become Juliet and Romeos marrige. Until at the very end of the scene when the nurse finally gives Juliet the news and they part ways.

  5. Nov 2024
    1. And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

      Shakesphere wrightings/plays where veiwed as best of the best, so good that kings wouod be willing to give up their most valued possesions in order to see or hear one of them. Just once.

    1. Because even though you’re an inelegant, simple, a mammal bottom-feeder, always fucking famished little ugly thing that feasts on what crumbs fall from the corner of our mouths, but you live uncuddled, uncoddled, can’t be bought at Petco and fed to fat snakes because you are not the maze-rat of labs: pale, pretty-eyed, trained.

      Despite everything, despite being forgotten, despite being sout out to termenate, to kill off of this wreatched planet, you survived. You survive and thrive off of being the vermin of the earth, the disgraceful. You play your part in the ecosystem, unrewarded, yet you survive.

    1. And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes    Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side    Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,    In her sepulchre there by the sea—

      Even in death he was completly consumed by her, spendinf every momment of his small life seeking her out in everything. Going to the extent of spending his time with her tomb, unwilling to let her go and unwilling to let her die.

  6. Oct 2024
    1. A man is haunted by his father’s ghost. Boy meets girl while feuding families fight. A Scottish king is murdered by his host.

      It covers some of shakespheres plays, one of which is Romeo and Juliet

    1. So it goes. To each his own. No vying. No vexation. Taking pleasure, taking pains, Kindred spirits, veterans.

      This explains how the oet veiws the cat as a extesion of his own soul, how they are alike yet simmilar all the same. They both have their challenges hey both overcome, taking resolve in ones company.

  7. Sep 2024
    1. Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you’re destined for. But don’t hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you’re old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

      The poem is telling us in a way to take your time in life, to learn and gain from its expperences. Pay attention and love the world around you, let yourself grow, let yourself change.

    1. a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning

      Him drowning, him falling from sky was quite unnimportant in the overall scale of everyone elss llives. They didn't care and they didn't notice, Iccurus is just a little blop of yellow in the ocean for them, not a human that needs saving

    2. Him drowning, him falling from sky was quite unnimportant in the overall scale of everyone elss llives. They didn't care and they didn't notice, Iccurus is just a little blop of yellow in the ocean for them, not a human that needs saving.

    1. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

      The loss of love, the lost of his life, this is what this stanza is trying to convey. Now that his love is gone he doesn't think he has anything left, he doesn't think that there is anything in the world left to live for.

    1. Forgetting the rent, the kids, the men, the other woman. The sad goodbye. The whole of children. Forgetting the lost dog, Polio. The gret planes pregnant with bombs. Fields of white headstones. All of it gone as we struggle to remember the words. One of us picking up where the others leave off. Intent on the song. Forgetting our bodies, their pitiful limbs, their heaviness. Nothing but three throats beating back the world–Laurie’s radiation treatments. The scars on Christina’s arms. Kim’s brother. Molly’s grandfather. Jane’s sister. Singing to the telephone poles skimming by. Stoplights blooming green. The road, a glassy black river edged with brilliant gilded weeds. The car an immense boat cutting the air into blue angelic plume

      They didn't care what they where singing about, they where able to forget their lives. Using this to bring eachother together, trying desperatly to remein in the moment. Yet there is still that erge the longing to remember

    1. hat passed over,     this can too.

      Chnage will happen, sorrow, greif, and dispair will all change into happiness no mater what situation you are in. This is the message the author is trying to convey when he repeates "That passed over this can too". That no matter what situation you are in change will find a way to prevail, wether it be from bad to worse, worse to happiness, or happiness to worse. You can't stop it so why not except the change and face it head on knowing brighter days are coming.

  8. Aug 2024
    1. why did you turn back, that hell should be reinhabited of myself thus swept into nothingness? why did you turn back? why did you glance back? why did you hesitate for that moment?

      she was angry at him for not only looking back but also going back to get her, she would have forgotten but he didn't let her, she would have moved on. But insteade she was forced to remember, shhe was forced to see the earth, and when she was finnaly able to step through the light and be with the flowers he turned around and she was forec back down. She lost everything again because of him.

    1. Once the world was perfect, and we were happy in that world. Then we took it for granted.

      We took the way things are in the world for granted, destrouying everything around us until ultimatly there is nothing left of what there was before.Until eventually we had pitty found the light and are now trying to grapple onto the light from the heavens buildinng ourselves back up. It is a personifaction of the greif and the suffering around us, as well as using it as a analogy for religion and how when they shared there kindness was like reaching despratly for the heavens, the future.

      1. Some notes are furious, questiong the author even while some appear to be rather skimish, not trying to dig deeper into the poem but rather take it that surface level.
      1. Some people like to take a poem head on yet from a awkward stance, while some stay back and just cheer on the others. Both need to learn how to step outside of their comfort zones.