Sorting Laundry / Elisavietta Ritche

“A mountain of unsorted wash could not fill the empty side o the bed,” (Ritchie 842).  This poem describes something that everyone has experienced.  Each stanza tells a truth.  It is comical because everyone can relate. Papers disappear but money always remains. How many papers would it take to clog the drain?  There are always things in the pockets.  The laundry with ruin some clothes but when it could possibly make something else better it never actually does. The laundry plays such an important part of our lives. Many people think about what they will weir every day. Laundry is never done because even while we are doing it we are creating more.  In the end all the hassle that could be saved if her husband would leave would not be able to make up for his lose. 

Batter my heart, three-personed God / John Donne

I really liked this poem.  “Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free,” (Donne 840).  This is a very religious poem.  It reflects the more religious based culture of the time.  It is filled with irony.  The person loves God but is betrothed to the devil.  He wants to be with God but cannot get to him by himself.  In the end it says to be freed he mush be imprisoned.  This sounds backwards but it is also true.  To be saved from the devil the person must be prevented from returning to him.  He cannot resist himself but if God would stop him he will be safe.

I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickenson

“Inebriate of Air—am I,” (Dickinson 797).  This poem praises nature.  It compares the glory of nature to the power of alcohol to influence and dazzle someone.  It describes the effects of alcohol but using parts of nature.  The speaker gets drunk on air.  The speaker drinks liquor that was never brewed.  The third stanza shows how dedicated the speaker is to “drinking” this liquor.  He will continue even after the natural nectar drinkers have finished.  He values nature greatly.  Another part that shows that the liquor is not actual liquor is that the saints approve of it.  The speaker states that no vat along the Rhine could have brewed such a real alcohol to match nature.

The convergence of the Twain / Thomas Hardy

“And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue, In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too,” (Hardy 779).  The convergence of twain is a difficult poem to understand unless you understand it is about the titanic.  This also is surprising that it was written so soon after the titanic sank.  I would find it hard to believe it would have the same meaning it did then as it does now.  Now it is like a legendary story and figure in history.  Then it was more like a major catastrophe and was fresh in people’s minds. This line shows how destiny or God lead the titanic to its doom.  It shows and inevitability in their meeting.  It also shows how they both were being created at the same time.  On is made by man and the other by fate to meet it in the ocean. 

To His Importunate Mistress / Peter De Vries

“And would have, lacked I not the pelf to pleasure also thus myself,” (Vries 13-14).  Love is a fickle thing.  It may come and go at its own choosing.  This poem is the opposite of “To His Coy Mistress”.  The man would love her but it is too difficult to do so.  It is not time however that is the cause.  The world is the cause.  He can not afford a mistress.  He tells her to look for a richer fellow to go after because paying for her pleasure and his wife and life he can’t afford it.  He finds a mistress to be a foolish think for a middle class person to have.  It causes his expenses to double and he then need to incomes. 

To His Coy Mistress / Andrew Marvell

“But at my back I always hear time’s winged chariot hurrying hear;” (Marvell 804).  Time is the problem in this poem.  The mistress’s coyness would not affect the man if it were not for time.  He would spend all of eternity studying her.  He would spend from the flood to Jesus 2000 years trying to woo her.  She could refuse him millions of times over ad he would still chase her.  His love would grow only stronger over time weather she would accept him or not.  Time stand in his way though.  Because of time he does not have from the flood to the conversion of the Jews to wait for her. Because of time he must her beauty will fade and his love will stop praising her. His love would be stopped by death before he would stop loving her but his live time would not be enough time to woo her.

A Jury of her Peers / Susan Glaspell

“No, peters,” said the county attorney incisively; “it’s all perfectly clear, except the reason for doing it,” (Glaspell 424).  The story is very interesting because the one who should no how to look for evidence don’t find it and the women who are not trained do find the evidence.  The men are portrayed to be condescending of the women.  They think they are just looking at Mrs. Wright’s stitch work.  They are partially right.  The women are really just looking for the thinks Mrs. Wright asked for.  They do happen to find more then they were looking for though.  By showing most of the story showing the women finding the evidences by sympathizing with Mrs. Wright it creates sympathy in the reader.  The story show what the women’s life was like.  In the beginning of the story it eludes to disorder giving Mrs. Wright away because Mrs. Hale Does not want to leave her chores half done.