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Apparently Divergent has been in theaters for the past week and I was oblivious to this. Regardless, I'm going even if I end up sitting in the theatre by myself

Gertrude Stein’s writing style reminds me of Virginia Wolf’s Room Of Ones. It seems like one thought starts another thought and then another. A Red Stamp was one poem that made the most sense to me. Sense in a very lose meaning. It started off talking about lilies which are flowers and then about staining of something. It seemed to be talking about how something that is white can stay things and can create a stain. A Petticoat was another poem that really made sense. This was an ode to coats which was weird but makes sense. There are lots of people who treasure the simple things in life. It also shows “a disgrace” could be something as a small as “an ink spot”.  I think this was a reflection on the times because if someone made one simple mistake then their reputation would ruined and society would be thrown out of society like an old stained coat. 

I do not know a lot about the Harlem Renaissance. I do know that it took place during the early 1920s to the mid-1930s that as highlight important for art, business, literature, music, and dance for African Americans. Langston Hughes was a part of shift in literature promoting equality and promoted African American culture.

Emily Dickinson lived during a time period where women were not given the same opportunities that they are given today.  Back then women were raised to be wives and mothers and not much else. Emily on the other hand had an education. On the other hand men were expected to be fully education and hold a job.

#Whitman I think that the constant metamorphosis that surrounded him caused him to seek out his own personal identity. For example the second poem in the collection from Leaves of Grass tilted “2” is about taking your own meaning from poems and forming your own opinions. By living through the various changes that America went through Whitman saw the value of the individual in a nation that is seems uncertain of its own identity.

# Whitman Discussion. This is a very difficult question to answer because we see things through our contemporary vision. But based on some of the poems that we read I think that the America that Whitman lived in was a younger more ambitious version of the America that we live in today. One that believed that it had the right or rather the duty to grow and expand to its fullest potential. But it was also filled with dangerous of growing too confident and lacked the compassion that comes with age.