She does not view war romantically. It is a terrible, violent thing, the speaker’s desire to participate is not motivated by glory or romanticism.

The repetition of “I must sit and sew” reflects the frustration with unchanging gender roles.

The term feels judgmental, but at the same time it becomes a reclamation.

The culture of jazz music is important despite the stigma surrounding it, it brings joy to the man.

The dancer is reminiscent of African ancestors from before slavery.

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This aristocratic woman reminds me of the narrator of the Yellow Wallpaper. They are both women of means, but clearly suffer from some sort of mental illness. The opulence of the woman's things, and the beauty of the narrator's ancestral halls do nothing to curb their inner thoughts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pukq_XJmM-k

The old blind prophet on the railroad is a clear reference to Tiresias. He offers up a prophecy to Ulysses and his crew, the movie is based off the Odyssey.

Like this portion of the Wasteland, John Sloan captures the poetry in the day to day of the working class. Eliot captures the simplistic poetry of the working class voice.

Eliot employs the vernacular of the lower class to provide the flow of the poem.

Despite the opulence of the woman's life, she cannot maintain meaning in it.

This is blank verse/unrhymed iambic pentameter.

With age comes wisdom, after a lifetime of hard lessons.

Man refers to mankind overall. The poem concerns itself with the fall of the human race.

A play on the traditional sonnet which often deals with themes of love. However, Millay subverts this form with visceral, gory imagery, which makes her love all the more powerful because she would not give it up.

She is consistently infantilized by John and Jennie, however when she describes the wallpaper, she does so in excruciating and intelligent detail, which opposes her family's view of her, as well as her initial view of herself.

Though Du Bois insinuates through the epigraph that the situation for black folks in America is hopeless, he asserts that there are solutions (working, voting, education), ending the chapter on a hopeful note.

The epigraph serves to provide context for Du Bois' ideas throughout the piece. The unresting water and turbulence at sea parallel the unending African American struggle, which feels hopeless at times to Du Bois.

Compares Woman to technology: the most mysterious technology of all (for the time) is birth and reproduction. However, American society is puritanical and does not want to think about sex, although sex and its result, birth, are manifestations of technology in the human form.

Adams describes a dichotomy between religion and technology. He lives in a transitional period between nature and industry, in his mind the dynamo is beginning to replace religion entirely.

The earth is reclaiming natural things from man-made constructs; humankind may be destroying the world with their manmade conflicts, but ultimately those conflicts will not matter.

• Interesting juxtaposition between archaic, religious imagery and language throughout the poem, and the (artistic?) appropriation of AAVE. It conveys very old ideas that remain relevant in a contemporary setting, perhaps a God-like rage due to the events of the 60s.