The person survive unscathed? That's hard to believe, but the other part of a "ghostly daze of Chinatown" is possible. However, "ghostly daze"implies like being under a narcotic. Maybe after jumping off and surviving this is how it felt? In ghostly, I imagine walking with no purpose through the narrow empty streets of Chinatown, dazed out for sure-- at peace.

The fact that the person does not get one free beer in the last part of these verses implies that the person who jumped off was broke, or just did not have money at the time. Notwithstanding that predicament, it's the person's need for empathy -- through a free beer-- that proves that the person that jumped off and survived is still controlled by forces outside theirselves. What would I do if I was eating at a ramen restaurant in Chinatown and was asked for a free beer, but first I needed to hear their story of jumping off the Brooklyn bridge and surviving before begging for the mercy of a beer?

This stanza. I'm not sure what each stanza are suppose to represent, but this one begins with a person ready to jump off a bridge. Generally, when people jump off a bridge they do so with the intent of ending their lives. In other words this quote is indicative of a suicidal person. Furthermore, the use of the past tense form of the verb [jump], implies that the action has been committed.

I wonder what compelled Ginsberg to write out "this actually happened". What was the need to legitimize this event as oppose to the rest?

You know who also returns to the streams? Nick from Hemingway's In Our Time. This imagery made me think about the peace Nick finds after he sets camp by the big two-hearted river.

This is the new age after the jar's (Self) seal is opened. "The pungent thrust of song" implies that this new age will come from a song (vision) that will indeed be different from the rest, and sharp. Pungent has many definitions, one implies a painful experience and the other implies a fascinating or an exciting experience. As long as this new song comes from the "whetted passions of a throng" and not a dynasty, it's fine if the song (vision) doesn't satisfy all ears.

At least this is the way I see it...

These verses flashes-back to the first scene in the poem where the Self- is personified into a Ginger jar. But in this scene context is expanded by telling the reader that nature's heritage has kept the Self sealed.

The first three verses is a vision of a past where the Self is personified as a ginger jar. Entities is associated with the external, and not ideologies. So in my highlighted annotations Bennet may be giving advise to contain the jar (Self) with entities that only strengthen one's conscious. In other-words, stay humble but keen.

Through Bennet's use of the metaphor of a new song, I appreciate her break from history. I'm tired of dynasties from all the four races. We need a new vision that looks to the future.

The Euphrates river is linked to the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

The simile of the soul and the river is deep because they are two things that share kind of a similar longevity. The soul depends on the river though.

This first verse made think about how professor Hanley once talked about rivers being the cradle of civilization. It's undeniable, that all great civilizations are always near a river. But the fact that "the negro" has known "rivers", suggests that he has been intricately involve in the rise of the human civilization.

The Harlem Renaissance at the time was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke.

I didn't know how important Alain Locke was in shaping the Harlem Renaissance. Now that I know the importance of this document, I can further appreciate Locke's vision of the New Negro who after the civil war had established a sense of black modern nationalism in Harlem.

I definitely see a similarity in experience between the Jew and black folks because both have been torn off of their national homeland and have likewise been persecuted by people that have deemed both groups (Jews and Africans) a threat. I read that, "We need to make the lessons of the Holocaust about human rights and the protection of minorities relevant to all minorities". I think this is true but personally I feel that Jews don't want to do this. Or else they would have done it. They want to keep their experience exclusive; there is for sure unity missing in the common experience of oppression that's found in different minorities.

I think that this quote explains dynamic relation of the oppressed and the oppressor. Such relationship can be explained in Freudian terminology by saying that the oppressed nurture an inferiority complex and the oppressors a superiority complex. However, these complex ideologies of the white and black man are perpetuated by the lack of African historical exposure. If colored people were to smash these false ideologies that are perpetuated by American nativism, then the complimentary relationship of the oppressed and the oppressor would fall apart.

Jesus, why does everything come down to religion, especially the Puritan ideals that seemed to have swept America unlike any other Protestant denomination? How did Puritanism become the most powerful Protestant denomination to influence American society?

I find this saying similar in Mexican culture as well where parents, or people in general often associate middle and upper class virtues with white nobility and lower class qualities as deriving from Aztec heritage. So when one embarrasses the self or the family by breaking any social behavior, people are prone to say in Spanish to don't be like Indians ("no seas Indio").

And like Hughes, the people that use this derogatory accusation are often the ignorant.

This excerpt was mind-opening for me because in it, Hughes is praising Jean Toomer's novel "Cane" for exemplifying black culture. And despite its scholarly praise, whites and blacks-- the public-- hated it. I can understand how artist are sometimes used to help people escape from the drudgery of everyday reality. But this makes me think about what's the true role of an artist, is their job to enlighten individuals or merely to entertain? Where is the line drawn?

In this excerpt there is only one voice, and it belongs to the narrator that's describing the dry wasteland in the mountains. Within this region there is an extreme sense of draught and it produces a frustrated desire for it to rain, particularly amongst the mountain's inhabitants,. Moisture (or an abundance of clouds) is necessary to produce lighting. The fact that the ice particles in the sky don't drop but only overcasts the sky to produce lighting I believe can create a state of anticipated frustration. Such expression is expressed in the Women/Men faces who "sneer and snarl/ From doors of mudcracked houses".

The voices in this excerpt appears to be between two women. The beginning of “The Game of Chess” describes in vivid detail the vast and sophisticated room of a women that’s confined in exile. It’s not clear if this woman, who I believe is named Lil, is awaiting her husband to return from serving in the army because the time sequence of this section isn't natural, particularly in the latter half when the second women says, “When Lil’s husband got demobbed, I said—”. This quote makes me speculate that the second women is flashing back to a point in time she held an actual conversation with Lil. Moreover, the second woman’s reply to Lil in this excerpt, “Those are pearls that were his eyes” makes me believe that the husband, Albert, might be dead.

This excerpt reveals on behalf of Lil a frustrated desire to connect with somebody. She halfwittedly inquires twice on the noise that the wind is doing. And the second women’s zombie-like reply of “nothing” is another motif in this excerpt. It’s as if nobody wants to talk to Lil; Lil is quite the buzzkill even though she is on some meds herself, the irony.

Water is the essence of life, as such, what is described in the following lines is the effect cause by the absence of water. In these lines a sun is constantly beating which in turn is making the surface look like stony rubbish. This complete absorption of water is what kills the tree. However, trees are known to have roots that dig deep in search of underground water, which there is. I'm pretty sure the tree is not dead though it may look like that from the surface; it's only preserving itself. Furthermore, there is a cricket, a sign of life-- hope. Or is that too far-fetch of an idea.

Is it possible that Marie might spend the different is seasons in separate countries? South of Germany resides Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. She obviously comes from an aristocrat background as she is mentioned staying with her cousins at the arch-duke's.

Of all three seasons that are described in this first stanza, it seems that summer is the season she's most active. Furthermore, words like "Starnbergersee", "Hoftgarten", and the subsequent dialogue from the character -- who might be Mary-- I can infer that she probably spends her summer in Germany.

In this first stanza the character's association to the spring, winter, and summer season are displayed respectively. The month of April, which falls in the spring season, for some reason is the character's least favorite month since it's the "cruelest". Winter, despite being the coldest of all seasons is described as "warm". What is so warm about winter? Being home and covered with blankets near a fire place, perhaps?

This entire poem reminds me of the demeanor of Freddie when he goes South of the Slot. Especially when he gets beaten up in the beginning of the story for not knowing the art of shirking. Eventually, Freddie, known as Bill Totts, is accepted by the working class people that live South of the Slot. This poem is similar in that respect because the school physician gets reprimanded by the poor parents for doing the right thing, but eventually "[take] him for their friend and adviser".

What can the word "filth" imply here? And why isn't Sunday included here? Are they religious, or do they have to go to church? At least the slatterns have a tradition of not being bathe in filth on Sunday.

These couple of verses makes me think that William maybe be describing the lives of peasants that predominantly live in the mountain regions of Kentucky, and New Jersey. The type of people that live here, however, are, its deaf-mutes, thieves, and reckless men who venture out for railroading. Kind of reminds me of the "Mystery Text", in particular, those that live South of Slot.

Idk what type of duty requires the use of a lever and the spade.

In the beginning I thought that this poem would be about a dead man that's dies in his lonesome out at the sea because of his pompous, arrogant, egocentric attitude to life during his lifetime. But after reading this, my presumption is that nature had endowed him with a gift but some how that gift was never nurtured properly.

I find the hunters action of pleasing their "yelping dogs" by forcing the rabbit out of its hole ironic because domesticated dogs for the most part want to please their owners. However, Frost imagery of the hunters forcing the rabbit out of its hole not for sustenance but "to please the yelping dogs" is counterintuitive to the nature of a domesticated dog, notwithstanding a hunting dog.

Were fences first created in this region for the purpose of preventing cows from trespassing into the property of another owner? Or were walls first established where they were only cows?

What does Frost mean when he writes that the speaker, "will not go behind"?

I wonder who the speaker of this poem is referring to when alluding to "something" in the first verse. In my opinion, Frost maybe talking about Nature, or in other-words, natural phenomenons that occur and consequently damage property. In this case, one natural phenomenon I know of which "sends the frozen-ground-swell" is volcanic activity. Volcanic activity in-turn causes earthquakes inevitably fragmenting walls; or in Frost words "spills the upper boulder in the sun".

Where does John's animosity for Cousin Henry and Julia originate?

What are in the tonics? This is an important question because as far as I know, the 1890s were the days when patients were being prescribed tonics with cocaine or heroin in it. Probably her hallucinations of the woman in the wall paper are attributable to this.

I think she is wrong. I wonder what her exercise routine like? She never explains what drugs she is taking or what her exercise routine is like. I doubt she runs or else she would have said that she, "runs". So when she talks about gymnastics, I wonder what she is talking about? How did people exercise in the 1890's?

I think it's phosphates because phosphate products help keep your bones strong and healthy, to help make energy, and to move your muscles. I'm assuming she is not a lively woman.

The end product.

As someone who was introduced to English until Kindergarten, I can relate to what Du Bois is saying here. It's weary work, for sure but it needs to be done.

Valentines Day?

How is the word "economy" used in this sentence? Can economy be synonymous with negotiations, as in the "[negotiation (or compromise)]" of forces?

The word "economy" makes this sentence confusing.

But what about the apparition of the Virgin Mary in Mexico. I believe that the apparition of the Virgin in Mexico also yielded the same force as the one in France. And like France, Mexico also build a shrine in her honor. The Woman was not unknown in the New World for she also appeared in Mexico. When Adam talks about America is he referring only to the United States? I guess so...

According to Google: The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next.

This verse was most vivid for me because when I think of a stump I think about a chopped off tree that has nothing else left to give. Is a stump still alive? I wonder what the mothers were cut off from to be "hardening like pounded stumps". Nonetheless, They Lion has a huge appetite. It eats just about everything.

Why is "they" repeated twice in here? Is this suppose to be the way the speaker of this poem talks? Probably some variety of English. After reading the title, I think that this poem will be about how a group of people feed "they" (I think it's suppose to be their) lion.