Yet do thy worst, old Time! Despite thy wrongMy love shall in my verse ever live young.
Shakespeare knows that no one can stop Time from aging anyone physically, BUT, the love that the speaker has will forever live on, unchanged and immortal, through the poem.
O, carve not with the hours my love's fair brow,Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen!Him in thy course untainted do allowFor beauty's pattern to succeeding men.
The speaker begs Time not to show age upon her lover and not to use Time's "antique pen" to inflict signs age on her lover's face. If her lover is untainted, his beauty and youth would be the example and the desire of all men that follow him. I think this connects to a deep love because it is sad to watch your loved one age and realize that you might not be together forever.
Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,To the wide world and all her fading sweets;But I forbid thee one more heinous crime:
The speaker tells Time to do whatever Time wishes as it passes, uncontrollably and continuously, all over the world, causing good and bad. The speaker is not concerned and urges Time to do what it will but, with the exception of one thing.
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws
Similar to with the lion, Shakespeare is telling Time to take away the very thing that makes tigers powerful and dangerous. This connects to what happens with age and approaching death. You start to get the idea that the speaker is telling Time to take away all these things and take away any life that Time wants and the speaker would be okay with that... but for what...? That will be answered later in the piece.
blunt thou the lion's paws,
If Time, through age and eventual death, blunts the lion's paws, it takes away one of the main characteristics of a lion that keeps it alive and powerful.
Time
Capitalized to give weight and importance to the word, as if it is its own force and the poem is addressing it.
life-long development
I like that you included this because it directly correlates to the results that stemmed from women receiving a limited education. The subpar learning hindered women from being able to do the some of the things that men could do, in terms of literacy, skills, and jobs. Therefore a lack of quality education had a long term effect on overall development of women's lives because there was only so much they could do.
Woolf compares truth to a dirty oil, which must be strained and in order to see it in its purest form. When looking at the societal problems Woolf is discussing, they are so engrained in history that it is hard to get a fully objective look.
Great job on noticing this. Woolf recognizes how important it is to see the reality of the situation and really dig beneath the surface. She uncovers a lot not just about society but also about her own beliefs. The description of straining the oil was nicely done.
She believes that women ought to play a more nuanced and important role in life, and shouldn't be relegated to cheering on their partner, let alone having a partner at all
Interesting interpretation. I like how you took the initial meaning of the looking glass and expanded it
The spreading wide of narrow HandsTo gather Paradise—
when you stray from prose and write past the limits imposed by it, there are better results
And for an Everlasting Roof
there is no limit on the possibility or things she can do
I dwell in Possibility —A fairer House than Prose—More numerous of Windows—Superior—for Doors—
Dickinson likes all of the options and creative opportunities that her form of poetry brings her. She looks down on prose.
Admonished by her buckled lipsLet every babbler be
The tendency and desire for humans to tell stories and talk about themselves and the struggle to keep secrets (babble, buckled lips)
The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind.
It is better if truth is revealed slowly, so that humans can process it and digest it instead of being shocked by something.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surprise
She is saying to not be fully honest and by doing that one will find success. It reminds me of the saying "fake it till you make it." Sometimes the brain cannot grasp certain realities or doesn't want to hear harsh truths so sometimes it is easier or more appealing to hear/tell a slightly twisted truth.
In the Parcel — Be the Merchant Of the Heavenly Grace —But reduce no Human Spirit To Disgrace of Price —
I think she is saying that one should share their works with God or sell works that have to do with God. But not to sell works from man's mind and open themselves up but then reduce that to a simple monitary value.
be justifying
while you may get something in return for publication, it is still selling yourself and she looks down on it. One might also not earn anything from their publication and this is because they did the "foul" act of selling their mind
Publication — is the Auction Of the Mind of Man —
making your work private is giving/selling it away and making yourself vulnerable.
There’s nothing wrong with me. I feel fine.’
did something happen?
‘I don’t want you to do it if you feel that way.’
boyfriend doesn't only want her to do it for him
‘Then I’ll do it. Because I don’t care about me.’
willling to undergo something not appealing for her boyfriend
‘And if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you’ll love me?’
sounds like she doesn't really want to do it but will do it for her boyfriend to make him feel a certain way or fix something
‘And you think then we’ll be all right and be happy.’
they think this operation will lead to this goal
‘I’ll go with you and I’ll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it’s all perfectly natural.’
Jig is getting an operation to help her breathing?
No, you wouldn’t have.’
something is off with her tone...
The American and the girl
"The American" sounds like he doesn't belong there-- isolating language