"The Raven" By Edgar Allan Poe

This man is beyond crazy to have written works like this, but it's also the only poem I actually like so I can't really judge him. the poem seems to be based around this notion of a raven stalking him and driving him insane. The raven obviously can sufficiently describe many things, but I think it portrays death. Poe has many of his poems based on insanity, death, and sometimes retribution; therefore, I take the raven to describe death creeping up on this man.

"The Sick Rose" by William Blake

well roses symbolize love much of the time so perhaps the poem is about a dying love. Whomever this poem is directed to must have either been dying or falling away from someone. It could also just be about someone dying and the poet saying that the resemble a rose as they die.

"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell

Well since this glorious little foot note on the printed copy of this says, it is a poem about a woman who is not certain she wants to fall in love with aman. This poem is the man's response to this phenomenon. It seems the man is desperately in love with the woman and just wants her to be with him forever. I think it makes him out to be a little pathetic but those are just my thoughts.

"Death, be not proud" by John Donne

This poem seems to be a religious one simply because of the many references to death not having power. The reason i say this is because many if not all religions describe life after death almost to make the followers ready for death. This makes me believe this to be a poem written by someone who is in the process of losing someone important. He could even perhaps be dying while writing it. In a nutshell, I interpret this poem to be a critcism of death little power in a world with life after death.

"My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke

I am really horrible at interpreting poetry, but I'll give it a shot. It seems like the "Papa" has a drinking problem and gets in fights. This doesn't change the son's opinion of him because he loves his father. it seems like this poem was written after the father died because it seems like a remembrance of him.

"Trifles" by Susan Glaspell

I sympathize with the two women in the story who want to hide the canary. If my friend were in trouble for doing an awful act but the victim deserved it by all means I would help them out as well. To have to go through such terrible treatment and keep going is just an awful occurance. The women shouldn't have killed John, but it sounded like he deserved it on some level. John couldn't get away with killing that bird that ment so much to his wife and think he could get away with it.

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

So I read this story 1 and a half times and still can't really get a grasp of it. I go the part where he had a vision and he thought that everyone was a sinner, but I couldn't help wondering if tha was the nature of the story. That everyone makes mistakes and everyone had secrets. I hope to find more about this story once I get to class today and maybe it will answer my confusion.