Moby Dick pg 19

"it maketh a marvelous difference, weather thou lookest out at from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or wether though observest it form a sashless window, where the frost is on both sides"

This is talking of a person or type of person. Ishmael is a sashless window considering his dreary outlook on life. He seems to enjoy dark, gloomy places without people and looks for a inn that is down a deserted street. Ishmael is not just looking at things that seem unpleasant like a glass window with frost on the outside, he is frosty on both sides like a sashless window.

Moby Dick pg 13

"but that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. I is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all."

States one main theme of the book, water/ocean connects everything. Many believe that life evolved from water and moved to land over time. This quote gives the idea of seeing oneself in water much like it is a part of us; and that water "is the key to it all" or life.

TSAR

Before Cohn went off with Brett or before Jake found out about it, Jake referred to Cohn as "Cohn", "Cohn looked up as I went in"(58), in a friendly way rather than using his full name like a stranger would do. After Cohn goes with Brett Jake reefers to Cohn as "Robert Cohn", "Why don't they start?" Robert Cohn asked(143). Jake befriending Jake for sleeping with Brett shows how much he admires her, especially since Jake doesn't seem to get as upset and put of with Brett who is just as much as guilty for sleeping with Cohn as Cohn is.

TSAR (The Sun Also Rises)

Michael is saying what Jake would say if he wasn't as nice as he was or as used to Brett cheating on him. Michael asks Cohn "Is Robert Cohn going to follow Brett around like a steer all the time?"(146). As Michael is bashing on Cohn Jake makes no attempt to stop him from doing so, which reenforces that Jake didn't think what Michael was saying was inappropriate. Later Mike says that Jake should tell Cohn that he should behave or leave, Jake replies, "Yes, it would be nice for me to tell him"(148). This is like Jake saying that it would be nice to tell Cohn to behave, which in Jakes case, because he truly loves Brett and would prefer Cohn to stay away, would be more like ripping into him like Mike did.

The Big Two-Hearted River

 The first similarity to WWI is the landscape. He arrives at a town that nothing is left of but the foundations, the blocks are chipped and everything is burnt. Much like the end of a war scene. The next thing that caught my attention was the grasshoppers. The first ones in the story are brown normal grasshoppers but colored black from the burnt of landscape. This is a metaphor for men who come back from war and the affects form the war stay with them. The man then hikes for many miles and sets up a crude camp much like you would on a scouting mission. The whole purpose of the trip is to catch a few fish which i think represent the enemy however it is much more peaceful considering he feels bad for the fish when he embeds a hook in ones mouth and it gets away. The man reminds me of a sniper waiting and only picking off the big fish not wasting his time on the smaller ones. However i also think that it can be taken a completely different way. Starting out in the war zone and then hiking away to get away form it and get back to the pleasures of life, fishing.

The Big Two-Hearted river could be an introduction for The Sun Also Rises because both allude to WWI without actually saying that that is what they are talking about. In both stories the author goes throughout the book hinting at the thought of WWI but never saying anything about it. If you were to read The Big Two-Hearted River before hand it may get you used to the idea and technique of picking out what the author is actually saying about the war.

TEWWG pg 191

Ah done been tuh de horizon and back now....Dis house aint so absent of things lak it used to befo Tea Cake came along.

Janie has been tuh de horizon of her love and possibly her life and has many good memories of being with Tea Cake. So she can live happily in her house that reminds her of all these goods times almost as if Tea Cake is still there.

TEWWG pg 193

She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net.

Janie pulls in all the happy thoughts of being with Tea Cake and wraps them around her, keeping them with her to always remember.

TEWWG pg 190

"Because they really loved Janie just a little less than they had loved Tea Cake, and because they wanted to think well of themselves...So they blamed it all on Mrs Turner's brother and ran him out of town."

Its amazing that the loss of a loved one can turn people into crazed maniacs and make them react harsh and rashly. Just as Tea Cake's disease had done to him.

TEWWG pg 182

"They'd laugh over it when he got well"

Janie is holding on to the very slim but possible hope of Tea Cake is going to overcome rabbies, hopefull.

TEWWG pg 182

"Janie saw a changing look coe in his face. Tea Cake was gone"

Metaphorical death of Tea Cake. Janie still loves him but the "him" is gone. you can bet that Janie died a little inside at this point.

TEWWG pg 177

"How you know he's havin 'em doctah? Dat's us' what Ah come out heah tuh tell yuh"

Foreshadow that Tea Cake is going to die of rabies.

TEWWG pg 171

"They's mighty particular how dese folks goes to Judgment"

Could be a crack at white people needing to be in a box on judgment day since they are more likely to get into heavin.

TEWWG pg 163

"Ah'm safe here, man. Go ahead if youh want to. Ah'm sleepy"...Sposing it comes up dere?" "Swim dats all."

I suppose the reason why "Motor Boat" isn't scared of the water is why Zora named him "Motor Boat." And if Sop-de-bottom dies in the hurricane i suppose he'll be "sopping up the bottom" of the ocean...hehe

TEWWG pg 160

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

Janie, Tea Cake and their friends sit and wait to find out what god has in store for them, waiting at his mercy.

TEWWG pg 159

"Thanky, Ma'am. But spousing you wuz tuh die, now...If ou kin see de light at daybreak, you dont keer is you die at dusk.

Janie can die happily now that she has found true love with Tea Cake or the "light". Reassures that Tea Cake is "the one for Janie.

TEWWG pg 156

"if ah never see ou no mo on earth, ah'll meet you in Africa"

Africa is place where colored people were free and happy, the equal to heaven.

TEWWG pg 156

"De Indians gohn east, man. It's Dangerous....Indians dont know much uh nothing, tuh tell de truth.

IRONY..Why would you trust the people who have lived successfully in florida for thousands of years before white men came, lets trust the folk who just moved here.

TEWWG pg 156

Morning came without motion. The winds, to the highest lisping baby breath had left the earth. Even before the sun gave light, dead day was creeping from bush to bush watching man.

The calm before the storm, foreshadow of the Hurricane being real and all hell breaking loose. "dead day was creeping..." gives the feeling of gloom and that something horrible is coming and death is waiting and watching what he will take when it comes.

TEWWG pg 154

"going to high ground. Saw-grass bloom. Hurrican coming"

Foreshadow that a hurricane is coming literally and metaphorically. When the hurricane comes Janies and Tea Cups lives are most likely going to change drastically.

TEWWG pg 147

No brutal beating at all. He just slapped her around a bit to show her whos boss...made the woman see visions and the helpless way she hung on him made men dream dreams.

Motif that in order to be worshipped the god must give punishment.

TEWWG pg 147

Still and all, jealousies arose now and then on both sides.

Shows Janie and Tea Cake still love each other enough to be worried about one another.

TEWWG pg 145

"Aw, don't make God look so foolish....findin fault with everything he made"

God created everything in his eyes as perfect. "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world." Tea Cake fights back against Mrs Turner with what he believes in and since Mrs Turner is so Naive she probably believes this to.

TEWWG pg 145

"All gods who receive homage are cruel...Otherwise they would not be worshiped"

If white people did not have control over the colored man, it would be because they did not punish them for disobeying them.

TEWWG pg 142

"White doctors always get mah money"

Irony, Mrs. Turner is a big wig and pays all of the black people in town to do her work. Another hint at the thought that she really doesn't hate blacks or is completely clueless to how much the colored people in the town profit her.

TEWWG pg 141

"You'se diffferent from me. Ah cant stand black niggers.

Janie is keeping company with this woman who hate black people even though she is colored herself. It may be because she likes the idea of being equal with whites but i think that the woman does not hate blacks as much as she claims but only does it to seem powerful and Janie knows it.

TEWWG pg 136

Motif of seeds being love only this time it is Jamies jealousy/fear that Tea Cake will leave her for another woman. It is only because the seed of her love for him has become a tree that Janie is Jealouse.

TEWWG pg 136

Janie learned what if felt like to be jealous.

This is the first time Janie has felt Jealous because its the first time she's truly been in love. Its also the first time that she has been exposed to other people being around her and her husband because Tea Cake allows her to be with others.

TEWWG pg 125

"you done married one uh de best gamblers God ever made"

The cry of a man who looses his fortune. I believe that this is a foreshadow to loosing all of Janies money. First of all if Tea Cake is so good why wouldn't he of ever had his hand on 200 dollars before like he said on pg 122. But then he probably would spend all his earnings like he did to Janies 200.

TEWWG pg 120

"Ring de bells of mercy. Call de sinner man home"

Why would Tea Cake choose to sing this song. Is it possible that he was the one who took her money and spent it only coming home to beg for forgiveness.

TEWWG pg 119

Who flung had taken her to a shabby room in a shabby house in a shabby street and promised to marry her next day.

A forshadow that could happen to Janie with Tea Cake. Who Flung gives the idea of a fling or a one night stand which fits the name Who Flung. A short fling that ends up with nothign besides a few good memories to be ended with sorrow. Could also be taken as you fell for the trick, Who Flung?

TEWWG pg 118

"All day and night she worried time like a bone"

Interesting expression and a different way of expressing waiting and worrying. Gives me the picture of a dog knowing at a bone franticly or in Janies place being equally eager.

TEWWG pg 117

Tea Cake was spending out of his own pocket....Janie never told him about the two hundred dollars she had pinned inside her shirt next to her skin.

For somebody who is so sure about getting married again its weird that she doesn't want to let Tea Cake know how much money she has. She may be regretting it or thinking that it might not last. Apparently the suspicions of the town is getting to her.

TEWWG pg 113

Ah'd feel uh whole heap better 'bout yeh i fyou wuz maryin dat man up dere in Sanford. He got something tuh put long side uh whut you got and dat make it more better.

This is just like Nanny used to say. The woman is pushing someone on her just because he is well off and isn't thinking if they are nice, interesting, or compatible with one another.

TEWWG pg 111

"...if Tea Cake is tryin to rob her she kin see and know..."Aw mah Gody naw! Reckon He better step over dere tomorrow and have some chat wid Janie. She ju's aint thinking whut she doing that all.

The town is worried that Tea Cake is trying to rob Janie of her money and think if they warn her she will understand and get rid of him. However Janie already knows that this is possible but her long for love and company overpowers that of any concern for her money. "Woman forget what they don't want to remember."

TEWWG pg 111

You gots to have something to comb hair over.

Woman don't normally get dressed up and try to look nice in less there is a reason, normally being a man.

TEWWG pg 106

He could be a bee to a blossom...a pear tree blossom in the spring.

Motif of bee to a blossom is brought up again. The idea that the bee and the blossom need each-other to live on and reproduce.

tEWwG pg 96

Text: "You going teh be a good player too. after awhile." "You Reckon so? Jody useter tell me Ah never would learn. It wus too heavy fuh my brains"

Another example of Jody thinking she is below men so she cant play checkers or make a speaech. This is why she is so pleased when the man asks her to play with him.

TEwWg pg 96

Text: Somebody wanter her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her to play. That was even nice. She looked him over and got thrills from every one of his good points.

This is a happy moment for Jaine because she is being treated with the same respect as a man even if it is just the man hitting on her. Rather than assuming Janie cant play and wouldn't be able to learn like Jody would have done the man considers her as an equal. However i feel a "relationship" coming on and i think that just like the other ones she's been in the man will get tired of flirting with her and eventually start treating her poorly. Seems to be the pattern in this book.

TEWWG pg 91

Text: "But you will. You'se too young uh'omen tuh stay single and you'se too pretty for de mens tuh leave yuh alone. You'se bound tuh marry"

Foreshadow that Janie will forget eventually and move on to another man.

TEWWG pg 88

Text: "She sent her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.... before she slept that night she burnt up everyone of her head-rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waste.

As quote on the first page says woman forget what they want to so Janie is doing so in this line. She is taking the rags that kept her hair tied up just like Joe kept her and this is her way of forgetting it.

Tewwg pg 1

Text:  Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. THen they act and so things accordingly.

Means exactly what it says. When women come across something that they didn't love or enjoy they put it behind them and tuck it away while moving on and looking for something that they will remember.

Tewwg pg 87

Text: "She took careful stock in herself, then combed her hair and tied it back up again"

Even though Jody is dead Janie still ties up her hair the way Joe made her. Is jody still following by Joe's rule because she is still in love with him or is she putting on a show for the town and respecting him?

tewwg pg 86

Text:  "Jody, you aint de Jody ah run off down de road wid. You'se whut's left after he died"

Falls into the same idea of Janies love not blossiming. At first she was in love with Jody but after a while the him she knew that bent down and kissed her feet straightened and her love for him disappeared.

TEWWG pg 84

Text:  "He stands in his high house that overlooks the world. Stands watchful and motionless all day with is sword drawn back, waiting for the messenger to bid him come."

This seems like a very dark idea giving the impression that death is sitting around hopping on every chance he gets to kill someone. "With his sword drawn back" makes it sound like death is looking forward to it and ready to strike. However this fits with what Janie is wanting. She is tired of having Joe around and the sooner he is gone the better for her.

TEWWG pg 71

Text:  "Things packed up and put away in parts of her heart where he could never find them.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen. She had an inside and an outside

life now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

Janie is starting to think like her grandmother or Nanny. Now that Joe has slapped her she views him as a thing to get her by and not to love. She has given up loving him and just dealing with it until her man comes along. "She had an inside and an outside life now" her outside life is living with Joe making it work and her inside is waiting for the man to make her hopes and dreams of love and not being lonely anymore come true.

TEWWG pg 66

Text: "Look at dat great big ole scoundrel-beast up dere at Hall's fillin station...Dey caught him over in Egypt....He wouldn't dig potatoes, and he wouldn't rake hay: He wouldn't take a whipping, and he wouldn't run away."

The men start to talk about a beast which is an allusion to the Sphinx. "How they going to tell he's a million years old", "Dey caught him over in Egypt." The men also talk of the beast swallowing men up and one man talks in rhyme as the sphinx does sometimes.

TEWWG pg 57

Text: "Janie, Ah reckon you better go fetch me dem old black gaiters. Dese tan shoes sets mah feet on fire. Plenty room in em, but they hurts regardless."

I think that the new shoes Joe tells Janie to bring him are a metaphor for going back to his old ways or turning over a new leaf. His tan shoes represent him as a black man with a white mans power and rule. Right before he sets the old mule free on pg 58, Joe switches into his old black gater shoes which represent him before his power as the nice man that set Janies love blossoming.

TEWWG pg 47

Text: And then he spit in that gold-looking vase that anybody here would have been glad to put on their front room table.

The spittoons is basically a metaphor for the "white mans power" because it is like Jody one-upping everybody in his town. The town was support to be a place for colored people to get away form poor treatment but now Jody is basically running it and everybody else is following under is command. It is not much different than a  normal town with its while folk bossing the colored around and dong there work for them.

TEWWG pg 43

TEXT: Janie made her face laugh after a short pause.....It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things.

The motif of Janie's love being like a flowering plant appears again but this time the bloom has ceased. Just like Janie's first marriage her husband has stopped kissing her feet like her Nanny warned. Janie thought that Jody would be the an to put her love into bloom but after Jody told told the town his wife couldn't make a speach without her saying so she is in the same position as last time.

TEWWG pg 43

Text: "Thank yuh feh'yo compliments, but mah wife don't know nothign bout no speech-makin. Ah never married her for nothign like dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home....

The idea that men view woman as item to do house work comes up again. Jody upsets Janie when he doesn't give her a chance to say anything before he decides she cant give a speach. Zora must have had a poor view on many men and thought they didn't respect woman and underestimated them.

TEWWG pg 39

Text: "He's liable teh do it too, Hicks. Ah hopes so anyhow. Us colored folks is too envious of one' nother....Us keeps our own selves down."

Considering the time period this is a very different thing for a colored man to say. Most colored men would think that they cant move up is society because the white men are holding them down. But for this man to realize or say that they are holding themselves down is a very different and probably the first time a colored man has expressed this.

TEWWG pg 33

Text: "Green Cove Springs" he told the driver. So they were married there before sundown just like Joe had said."

This is the beginning of something new for Janie, her seed landing on soft ground and beginning to sprout. Joe has come into her life and is willing to keep her company and start over in a new town. However if Nanny's impression of men is correct Joe is most likely like Janies first husband. A wealthy man who will treat her well for a while and the slowly start to stop kissing her feet and make her work rather than sit around on a porch and fan herself.

TEWWG pg 25

Text: "A hope you fall on soft ground"

Falling on soft ground is a good thing especially if your a seed. When a seed falls on soft ground it gets pushed in and has an easy time sprouting and eventually sprouts into a plant ready to begin its task of growing into a full blown tree. For Janie falling on soft ground would be finding her special someone to love and keep her from feeling lonesome. However at the moment her seed is sitting on solid concrete, not blooming with love but just waiting for the right man to bring her to soft ground.

TEWWG pg 23

Text: "Ah ain't studyin bout none of 'em. At de same time ah ain't takin dat ole land teh heart neither. Ah could throw ten acres of it over de fence every day and never look back to see where it fell. Ah feel the same way bout Mr. Killicks too. Some folks never was meant to be loved and he's one of 'em.

Unlike her grandmother Janie is not looking to marry somebody just because of what the represent like a house or 60 acres of land. Janie is looking to have somebody to love. She has lived in an environment where she has not been adored like most people have. Earlier in the book she compares herself to a "tree in bloom waiting for a bee." This gives us the idea that she is waiting for somebody to come along and love her, like a bee would go to a tree and spread its pollen. Shes' looking for company, not money and valuables.

TEWWG pg 23

Text: "Humph! don't spect all dat tuh heep up. He ain't kissin' yo' fowf when he carry on over you lak dat. He kissin' yo' foot and tain't in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when they got to bow down tuh love day soon straightens up."

However this may be true for some men I do not believe it is for all. What is interesting though is why Nanny would want Janie to get married,either for protection or something else, if she thinks that men are only into marriage for the physical aspects of it. Especially since she is ready to smack anybody who touches Janie in the wrong way. Nanny seems to have a very poor view of men and thinks their all rapist.

TEWWG pg 21

Text: "In the few days to live before she went to Logan Killicks and his often mentioned sixy acres"

Besides being wealthy and well off i get teh idea that Logan Killicks is probably not the best guy in town. The fact that his 60 acres are mentioned before and rather than his personality or looks most likely means he is an ugly feller and isn't the most fascinating guy to talk to.

T.E.W.W.G. pg 8

Text: ...She had a house out in de back yard and dat's where she wuz born. They was quality white folks up dere in West FLorida. She had four gran chillun on de place and al of us played together and dats how come ah never called my Grandma nothign but Nanny. 'Cause thats whate verybody on de place called her.

This gives an insight to why Janie is uneducated and so poor off. First we learn that her parents are not around anymore and secondly we learn that it is a time period when colored people are still treated poorly explain why she didn't get the best education and why she doesn't make a lot of money.

TEWWG pg 4

Text: "Aw, pretty good, Ah'm tryin' to soak some uh de tiredness and de dirt outa mah' feet."

This is the first time we here Janie speak and it confirms that she is also not the most educated person. Before this we only knew that her neighbors were uneducated. We also learn from this paragraph that the line is in that her neighbors and her are connected either through family or just friends because they bring her a plate of food. The area definitely has a southern/uneducated accent.

TEWWG pg 3

Text: "She's way fast forty to my knowledge, phoeby"
'She's way too old for a boy like Tea Cake"
"Tea Cake aint been no boy for some time. He's round thirty his ownself"

We learn that the womans age is somewhere a bit over 40. . Before this I thought that she was in her twenties considering her description, "...her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets...then her pugnacious breast trying to bore holes in her shirt..." and the mention of her previous boy friend running off with a girl so young "she don't even have no hairs". From these descriptions we can take that she is a very good looking and healthy woman.

TEWWG pg 2

"What she doing coming back her in dem overhalls? Cant she find no dress to put on? Where's dat blue satin dress she left her in. Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her..."

This paragraph gives a lot of background information about the girl in the story very quickly. We learn that she is widowed and once had money but apparently lost it to another man. She is most likely a hard-working woman considering she comes home in overalls after other people in her neighborhood are already done and sitting on their porches. We also get a view of her community and how the people talking don't have much to do considering how much they know about other people's business and we also get a feeling that the people don't have much of an education because of the way they talk.

pg 253 wldn

Text: ...He had long ago bought a potters wheel off him, and wished to know what had become of him. I had read of the potter's day and wheel in scripture, but it had never occured to me that the pots we used were not such as had come down unbroken form those days, or grown on trees like gourds somewehre, and i was pleased to hear that so fictile an art was ever practiced in my neighborhood.

It is interesting that Thoreau, in my vew, hits another level of like for his neighborhood when he reads of another person making pots or instrument from the land. I think it makes him feel like he is in a place where people have been living from the land for ages. Much like he likes the idea of building his house he likes the thought of somebody making pots because it is dong something for themselves.

pg. 209 wldn

Text: ...A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth in to the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which i is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors...

This falls into the idea or theme that one can live simply if they wish to. Thoreau lives off brown bread crust in the woods and thinks about life but many people would call him crazy for doing so, especially those who are hard working men with nice things who have most likely mortgaged out their lives. However Thoreau is saying that if you live passionately for what you are doing it does not matter if you are not eating or living in a fancy house because your life will have the quality as if you were if you live passionately for it.

pg. 205 wldn

Text ...I have found repeatedly, of late years, that i cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect. I have tried it again and again. I have skill at it, and, lime many of my fellows, a certain instinct for it, which revives fro time to time, but always when i have done i feel that it would have been better if i had not fished

This is weird because to live as simply and as cheaply as Thoreau does he would have to fish to sustain himself as well as hunt However I suppose that Thoreau starts to feel like he is working and taking advantage of nature rather than being being with nature to get away from society learn from it. It could also appeal hover to Thoreau that eating fish and meet would be a more complicated life style than he wishes to live and thinks he could live simple enough of potatoes, rice, and bread. The idea of killing animals and fish is also like killing nature, it is the same as if he were to drain Walden Pond to make a pool.

pg. 198 wldn

Text: ...I did not work hard, I did not have to eat hard, and it cost me but a trifle for m food. But as he began with tea, and coffee, and butter, and milk and beef, he had to work hard to pay for them, and when he worked hard he had to eat hard again to repair the waste of system.

Thoreau is playing into the idea again that there is no point in having nice things if they are going to start owning you. "we don't ride the railroad but the railroad rides us." Thoreau gets along fine with what he has, which is not much and certainly nothing very nice, but he does it without working hard. However this man has many things like milk, bread and beef but has to work hard all day long for them and when he does this he must eat hard and buy new things to make up for the wear and tear put on his things by working hard therefore digging him into a certain debt. Thoreau then makes the statement later on that if the man only lived as simply as him he could work hard and make enough profit for 2 weeks.

pg. 186

Text: ...The villagers, who scarcely know where it lies, instead of going to the pond to bathe or drink, are thinking to bring its water, which should be as sacred as the Ganges at least, to the village in a pipe, to wash their dishes with!...

The idea of piping the water from Walden pond to village is absurd  to Thoreau because it represents to him what life is about and living with the wealth of knowledge rather than personal possessions. He believes that the water from walden is like the Ganges, a river thought to cleanse the soul of all its bad karma and wrong doings, but rather the idea of the purity of nature. Instead of the people of society going to the river and drinking it which for Thoreau reminds him of how he should live his life will be wasted on piping it to society where people will not gain the knowledge of it but rather continue living their lives in the fog.

pg. 172

Text: The water is so transparent that the bottom can easily be discerned at the depth of twenty-five or thirty feet. Paddling over it you may see may feet beneath the surface the schools of perch and shiners, perhaps only an inch long.

I think that Thoreau sees this pond as the purity of what nature represents compared to society which is compared to as a muddy river earlier on. The muddy river represents society and how the people in it aren't seeing the truth and are stuck thinking that the way people are measured in life is by what there personal possessions are and that their mind are confused and mirky like the muddy river. However Walden pond is crystal clear and nothing is keeping people from not seeing that life is measured by how much knowledge one possesses and that one doesn't need all the comforts of nice thing but rather the bare necessities. Thoreau continues to express how clear this pond is continuing the idea that it represents how nature is uncorrupted.

Literary Device

Epigram: A very short witty poem usually written as a brief couplet that expresses an idea or remark in a clever and amusing way with a witty or ingenious ending.

Example:

Bruce Bennett, "Ironist"

I mean the opposite of what I say.

You've got it now? No, it's the other way.

This is a clever epigram because the idea of "meaning the opposite of what I say" is expressed in the end or possibly not when the speaker says "No, it's the other way" which could mean that it is not correct or if its the opposite then it correct. Either way the last line of the poem is clever and somewhat confusing.

Function: Epigrams are not really used for any other purpose than to just be amusing and possibly show how clever one is by playing around with the idea of things and mixing them up. Many writers use them in stories or poems to say something but without really saying what is actually meant such as in this poem:

God bless our good and gracious king,

Whose promise none relies on,
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.

At first you think the king is a great person but in the end you realize that he may not be so bright and has never done anything. However you cant actually take that out of the text.

Literary Device

Protagonist: 

Definition: The leading character in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

Example: In the "Love Song of Alfred Prufrock" the protagonist is Alfred Prufrock because that is who is telling the story and what the idea of the story is based around.

Function: A protagonist is what allows the story to happen and is as important as the six elements of plot. Without the protagonist the story would not happen because it would not revolve around anybody or anything. The function is simply to have somebody to go throughout the six elements of plot.

The Burial of The Dead

This section starts with the speaker saying how cruel spring is which is odd because most people love spring. However the speaker is obviously much older than most, we know this because she reads much of the night and goes south in the winter which is something most elderly do. "Mixing memory and desire" tells us why the speaker believes spring is cruel because it shows that it brings up most likely good memories of youth when she used to hang out with her friends and have a good time. Now that she is older she does not do these things but instead stays inside and reads. The speaker then goes to mention how "Winter kept us warm, covering earth in forgetful snow". When winter comes it keeps everybody indoors and hides you from reality. The speaker feels that winter is better because she is most likely equal with everybody else by staying inside and reading and doesn't see the people outside having a great time like she would in the summer that reminds her of her youth. We know the speaker does have good memories that she wishes she could go back to because of lines 10-16. "My cousin's, he took me out on a sled...Marie, hold on tight. And down we went". The speaker used to have a wonderful youth but now that she is old she has no hope and nothing to look forward to.

onomatopoeia

Literary Device: Onomatopoeia 

Definition: Onomatopoeias are words that sound like the objects they name or the sound an objects makes.

Example: This poem was written by a 4 year old by the way

Function: An onomatopoeia gives a better view in to the item or sound you are describing. For example when you think of a mechanical number counter you often call it a clicker because thats what sound it makes. Like when you get baffled and say "where is my clicker i need it to count the flock of sheep"

Cafeteria 

Boom!

Went the food

trays. 

Clap! Clap!

Goes the teacher.

Rip! 

Went the 

plastic bag.

Munch! Munch!

Go the students.

Slurp!!!

Went the straws.

Whisper

Is what half the kids

in the room

are doing.

Crunch! 

Crunch!

go

the candy bars.

By: Rachael

The words crunch crunch are onomatopoeias because they are words but they are also the sound of what the candy bar is making. Slurp is also an onomatopoeia because that is what the sounds straws make especially after you are out of your beverage..

Blues Poem

woke up one morning couldn't feel my toes

woke up one cold damn morning, could not feel my toes

why my papa left me, no body knows

but one day i'll hopefully se'em

think one day i'll hopefully se'em

but don't know which way he went in the end

so I'm a deciding on a fine line

yes I'm a deciding on a fine line

wether to be good or bad during my time

for the problem is if i do the wrong one

yes the problem is if i do the wrong one

o my papa I will be with out none

for ill be higher or below some from where he gone

Its easy to wirght bad poetry

Example:
Sitting in class thinking of AP
Stressing and crying of the homework thats ganna be
the nazi of english poors it on like it's free
you sit there and think of how much fun college will be

stressing and crying of the homework thats ganna be
kicking yourself for reaching farther than your grasp
you sit there and think of how much fun college will be
sitting in a desk think of ex hopes and dreams

kicking yourself for reaching farther than your grasp
as the nazi of english poors it on like its free
sitting in a desk thinking of ex hopes and dreams
sitting in class thinking of AP

The Heights of Macchu Picchu

The Heights of Macchu Picchu is a story of the hard times and troubles the Incas had. The speaker says "The human soul was threshed out like maize in the endless granary of defeated actions," this shows that the people were worn down and were not doing well. "Not only death, but many deaths, came to each one, each day a tiny death, dust, worm, a light flicked off at the city's edge." is a line that tells us that many people were dying but also that other hardships came to them. "Dust" is the idea that where they lived was a dirty place to be and the word "worm" represents the disease and infections that they most likely had. "A light flicked off in the mud at the city's edge" gives the feeling that another drop of hope is lost from the city. The idea of insects "a tiny death with coarse wings" can mean many things but in this case it is why so many people are dying from sickness and hungar. Insects bring disease when they bight and destroy food supplies by killing crops. The speaker goes farther with the idea of a bugs, "the man was besieged by the bread or y the knife", the bread being that the crops that have been destroyed which is why they lack food and the knife being the "bite" and the disease the bite carries.
In the poem you see a few words of importance that are set out by themselves in-between the paragraphs, happened, coarse wings, captain of the plow, and short death of everyday. These words are set out for a meaning by the speaker because they tell the main story of why the people are suffering. "Happend" is important because the speaker and his people did not just start to suffer for no reason it was because of harmful events such as the the insects. "Coarse wings" is set by itself because insects, animals with coarse wins, are the main cause of their downfall because it caused the people their lack of food and disease. The idea of "the short death of every day" gives the reader the feeling that there is no hope and that waking up every morning is like a death because the suffering that is to come. The people have nothign to look forward to besides hunger and sickness which leads to death.

English and Italian Sonnet

The English sonnet or Shakespearian sonnet is made up of  three quatrains and a couplet with the ryhme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

Example:

To Wordsworth by: John Clare

Wordsworth I love, his books are like the fields,

Not filled with flowers, but works of human kind;

The pleasant weed a fragrant pleasure yields,

The briar and broomwood shaken by the wind,

The thorn and bramble o'er the water shoot

A finer flower than gardens e'er gave birth,

The aged huntsman grubbing up the root--

I love them all as tenants of the earth:

Where genius is, there often die the seeds;

What critics throw away I love the more;

I love to stoop and look among the weeds,

To find a flower I never knew before;

Wordsworth, go on--a greater poet be;

Merit will live, though parties disagree!

The Italian sonnet or Petrarchan is composed of an octet, eight lines with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba, and a sestet, six lines of abcabc or ababab.

Example:

Italian Sonnet Turn back the heart you've turned away Give back your kissing breath Leave not my love as you have left The broken hearts of yesterday But wait, be still, don't lose this way Affection now, for what you guess May be something more, could be less Accept my love, live for today. Your roses wilted, as love spurned Yet trust in me, my love and truth Dwell in my heart, from which you've turned My strength as great as yours aloof. It is in fear you turn away And miss the chance of love today! James DeFord

Lying In A Hammock....by James Wright

1) The speaker in the poem is laying in a hammock noticing all the small sounds and things going on around him on a farm.

2) The person lying in the hammock is a very observant and descriptive person and knows a lot about nature. The man has most likely spent a lot of time outdoors or worked outside in his past. We also know that the speaker is visiting the farm because the title says (William Duffy's Farm)

3) I arrived at the conclusion that the speaker is very observant and knows a lot about nature because he noticed the color of the bronze butterfly and the sound of the cows following each other down the ravine behind the empty house. The speaker also knows that the two trees he sees the sun between are pines and that the horse droppings are from a year ago and knows that the bird that flies above him is a chicken hawk which many people would not know.

4) The title tells us that the speaker is lying in a hammock, on the setting of a farm, at the place he is visiting (William Duffy's Farm) and that he is in Pine Island, Minnesota.

5) The speaker makes you feel involved with what is going on around him by using sounds and different ways of saying what is happening in a different way. Instead of saying the cows are following eachother around he notes the sound of cowbells follwing one another giving you a greater sense of what is going on. He also gives the idea of a "beautiful" picture of poop in a field by saying it is blazed up in golden stone giving us the picture of sun shining down on a pile of horse droppings. Overall the descriptions are in great detail in the look and sound of what is happening around him.

6) The speaker notices the things he does because those are the things he feels most like. He notices a butterfly blowing like a leaf in the green shadow giving the feeling of floating anywhere and just going where life takes you which may explain why the speaker is sitting in a hammock on a island in minnesota. He notices the cows following one another in a herd behind the empty house because the feels that he is the empty house all alone while the cows have a pack that they can call family. Then he notices the chicken hawk that floats over him looking for home which is very likely how the speaker feels. He feels that he is floating around looking for a place that he can call home but hasn't seemed to settle down yet.

6) The speaker feels that he has wasted his life because he sees all these beautiful things happening like the butterfly at piece sleeping and fluttering in the wind. He sees the ravine with the cattle in the herd that are most likely doing all they need to ever do and describes the brilliance of simple horse dung shining in the sun. Last he sees a hawk gliding over himself looking for home and he feels that he is doing nothing but looking at all the wonderful things going on around him as he sits and wastes his time lying in a hammock.

Literary Devices: Cacophony

Cacophony:

A horrible, scrambled, mixture of unpleasant sounds. The word cacophony originates from the greek word meaning "bad sound"

Function:

Cacophony is used by poets to describe something unpleasant or to make a horrible sounding noise which is done by combining sharp, harsh and hissing sounds. The use of cacophony is often used to show how a monster or something that is not human may speak such as a daemon. When cacophony is used it makes the speaker or writing seem more supernatural and more powerful especially since it is "set out" in the text because it sounds much different than the other writing.

Example

Jabberwocky

by Lewis Carroll

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; 

All mimsy were the borogoves, 

And the mome raths outgrabe. 

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! 

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! 

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun 

The frumious Bandersnatch!" 

He took his vorpal sword in hand: 

Long time the manxome foe he sought -- 

So rested he by the Tumtum tree. 

And stood awhile in thought. 

And as in uffish thought he stood, 

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, 

Came wiffling through the tulgey wood, 

And burbled as it came! 

One, two! One, two! And through and through 

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! 

He left it dead, and with its head 

He went galumphing back. 

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? 

Come to my arms, my beamish boy! 

frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" 

He chortled in his joy. 

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; 

All mimsy were the borogoves, 

And the mome raths outgrabe.

Punk Pantoum

Punk Pantoum gives me the image of two gothic lovers who are hooked on some very powerful drugs. The idea of

walking a razor across your throat gives the idea that they are obsessed with death and the ochre bruise is left from "paint on" drugs.

They live in a beat down shack because they have no money because they spend in on drugs and it may possibly be a horse stall.

Sorry fielding i know its bad but thats seriously all i get out of it. It's just babble.

Sestina: Altaforte

In the Altaforte the speaker tells how he loves to fight and here the "music" of swords clashing. The speaker believes that piece is something that only woman suffer and that there is nothing better that the cries of battles and the drip of blood from a man or sword. Throughout the poem the speaker expresses his love for war and his distaste for the people who prefer piece by comparing it to thunder, lighting and music and how it makes him feel alive. The end words to the lines are mostly all "happy" words such as rejoicing, music, piece, and crimson. These words do not necessarily go with the dark lines they are with but are there because the speaker believes that battle and war is a good thing so they make it sound better.

Do Not Go Gentle inot That Good Night

The repeating of the lines "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "Rage, rage against the dying of the light", are used throughout the poem in different ways to give each line a new meaning. In each stanza a new type of person is explained and shows how each one deals with death or "The night" and how one should fight off death. In the last stanza the speaker is talking to his father who he is hopefully praying that he will fight off death like the many other types of people he has listed before.

Tone

The Telephone:

The tone in The Telephone is coming from a very convinced insane person with a lot of force in his voice. The speaker is convinced that somebody has talked to him through the flower on the sill and will not even let the other person tell him that it was not them that spoke. The poem sounds as if it were coming from a person who is not quite right in the head and is very forceful.

The Flea:

The speaker in The Flea is sitting in bed with his lover and is looking at a flea who has just bitten them both and is wishing that he could do what the flea has done. The tone of The Flea is both sad and hopeful because the man is sad that he has not made love with his lover and is hopeful because he hopes to do so one day and obviously wishes they were married because thats what he starts saying the flea has done by mixing each others blood.

I'll do the other poem tomorrow because i cant find it in the book or on the internet.....and its not on shelbys thing either.

Allegory

Literary Device: Allegory

A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. Normally with a literal meaning and a interpreted meaning.

Example: The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair, 

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was  grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

Allegory is used in the poem to create the idea that the speaker must make a choice of which path to take. However the two paths that the speaker  can choose to go down obviously represent a decision the speaker has to make during his life and would be very difficult to be interpreted differently.

The Road Not Taken

1) The speaker does not feel that he has made the wrong choice taking the road less traveled. The speaker sighs because he could not take both roads but it thankful that he has taken the one less traveled.

2) The choice between to similar roads will make a difference later on down the line because like in life one path may only be a little different than the other but it opens up into an entirely different journey. 

In the poem the speaker comes to a point in his life where he has the choice to make a decision between two things. One would be the choice that many people before him have made and the other would be taking a small chance and doing the thing that fewer people have done. In the end the speaker does not sigh because he is disappointed about his decision  but more of a sigh that he is happy with his choice. "I-I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" shows that he has gotten more out of the path less taken.

=/ After Apple-Picking

After Apple-Picking is a poem of a man who has worked long and hard for his whole life and his work is coming to an end either because of winter or the end of his life. The apples he is picking represent what he has accomplished in his life. He mentions barrels he hasn't filled and apples he hasn't picked upon a limb which represents the things in life that he has not done which he doesn't seem to sad about. Then the man grows tired and starts to dream. He dreams of all of the apples he has picked which may represent the things he has done in life. He has worked hard because he mentions the ache in the arch of his foot from the ladder. He hears loads of apples coming in also representing the many things he has done but says he is tired of apple picking or the life he has lived. He mentions tens of thousand of apples or things he could have done that he did not touch that are worthless to him because he did not do them. 

1)The author uses in depth description of both the apples and the trees and smells of them. He mentions his ladder sticking through the trees, the stems, blossoms and the way the limbs bend. He describes where and why his feet hurt form the many years of picking apples. The emotional responses he revokes are the feelings of being in an apple orchard picking apples possibly getting tired and sore from straining on a tall ladder.

2)The speaker doesn't seem to feel like he has done his work poorly or well only that he has accomplished a lot saying that he hears the rumbling sound of load on load of apples but also feels that he did not accomplish many things. He probably once found enjoyable but now he is tired of apple picking as he says he has had too much.

The speaker switches to present tense because his dream or sleep is what is happening to him at the moment. The next event in his life will be what he is talking about in his tired and dreamlike state. The experience in the dream is described much more precisely and covers more of what the speaker has accomplished rather than talking of how tired he is.

4)The speaker thinks of sleep as ether death or the end of his work. He feels that he has picked a huge amount of apples or done many things and is tired and is looking forward to going to sleep.

5)Since the ladder is pointing towards heaven it could represent that he has come to the end of his life and is going to die and possibly go to heaven. The seasons of the year may represent what the man has done. He has picked apples during the time they grow and now that winter is coming his job is done and it is time for him to go to sleep. The harvesting represents the things that the speaker has done during his life and now that he has done so many things, even if he has not done many of the things he could, and that he is done harvesting and is ready to be done.  Pane of Glass? Essence?

The sleep of the woodchuck is that of winter. Woodchucks hibernate when they cannot get anything done and then wake up when the weather is good again.....I need help Fielding

Love Song Of Alfred Prufrock

In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock a man is sitting possibly at home in a room or maybe even out side of a ballroom or a parlor trying to decide whether or not to enter. There are many people inside including most likely many pretty woman which we get from the line, "In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo". He is scared that he might not be able to relate with these woman even though he has been to events like this and talked to the woman before. We know this because he thinks, "And i have known the arms already, known them all..." and that he is scared because he thinks, "Is it perfume from a dress that makes me so digress?". Also something that is keeping him out is that he doesn't really like the society within the place and maybe that he even thinks it is a joke because he says throughout the story that there is always time and much of it. However even though he thinks there is time he is worried about being old and what people might say about him and his skinny legs and thinning hair. At the end of the poem he is still trying to make a decision.