Cultural Entry - "The Sun Rising"

“Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride, Call country ants to harvest offices” (648)

My guess: I think that my lack of understanding of this passage is because it is a mixture of cultural phrases that I am not familiar with as well as symbolism. The poem is about love, so I am guessing that the author is professing his love throughout the poem. I think that the “schoolboy”, the “prentices”, the “court-huntsmen” and the “country ants” that the speaker is talking about are representative of all different kinds of people from the time period. He is professing his love when he says “go tell” and “call” all the different people; he wants everyone to know the love he has for someone.

Research: “'Prentices' are apprentices, who (like today's sullen teens) oversleep; "motions" are regular changes, such as sunset or sunrise, spring or fall. Donne and Anne (we might as well call her Anne) believe it's more important to be in love than to be on time: they won't let the hour, or the month, or even their relative ages, tell them what to do”

( http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/177309 )

Explanation: With the research above and other information that I found I discovered that the true meaning of the passage is the speaker criticizing all those who are ruled by the hours of the day. The speaker is saying that love is not dependent on time or duty. Before I thought that the speaker was professing his love to all the different kinds of people, but really he is saying that the love he feels is not restricted like the duties of all those people.  

Adrienne Rich

 

 

I found out that Adrienne Rich passed away March 27, 2012. It wasn't that long ago but here is an article dedicated to her.

Word Entry- The Author's Work As Context: Adrienne Rich

1. "Yet her poetry works as poetry largely because in it the converse is always equally and palpably true." (857)
2. My Guess: I think the word means to become aware of a certain issue. Furthermore, I think it means Adrienne's work is unique based on how her personal life.
3. Palpable (adjective): "readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious; evident: a palpable lie; palpable absurdity." (Dictionary.com)
4. My guess was kind of close to the definition. Rich's poem help readers to recognize and understand certain situations in the era. 

Word Entry "Living in Sin"

1. "... that morning light so coldly would delineate the scraps of last night's cheese and three sepulchral bottles..." (Pg. 859)

2. I think this word could be some kind of wine or alcohol because that gets drank with cheese. Also they  are "living in sin" and alcohol can make you do bad things.

3. Sepulchral- 1. hollow and deep, or 2. of, pertaining to, or serving as a tomb.

4. I think this sentence is saying that these people got drunk and hooked up. They shouldn't have done it and the alcohol kind of pushed them to give into temptation. The bottle or alcohol is the tomb of their willpower to say no or their smart/ unsinful actions.

Word Entry #7 - "Living in Sin"

1. "Half heresy, to wish the taps less vocal,
     the panes relieved of grime" (858).

2. My guess: By the context clues of the sentence I think that heresy may mean to believe.

3. Definition:  "any opinion or belief that is or is thought to be contrary to official or established theory" (freedictionary.com).

4. I understand now, she's describing the furniture in the room and when she says heresy she is referring to the opinion she has of the house she lives in.

Cultural and Historical Knowleddge: Daddy P 983

Cultural and Historical Knowledge: Daddy:

In the poem "Daddy" Sylvia Plath, introduces her ethnicity in the poem as Half German and Polish. She has used some German word in her poems such as Ich, Du, and Ach, which "Ich" stands for "I" and "Du" stands for "you".

It Stuck In barb wire snare
Ich, Ich, Ich, Ich
I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, Du

But the name of the town was common.
My Polack Friend(Polsih)

She also relates the death of her father to the Nazi war, which is a very powerful topic in history. For example.

Not god but a swastika
so black no sky cloud squeak through

In here she mentions of the sign swastika, which tells me that her father died during the Nazi war and he might have been a German soldier who was hired to to kill Jews.

Word Entry: "Daddy"

Word Entry: "Daddy" P 984
1: I thought every German was you.
 And the language obscene.
 2. I thought it meant that German is a tough language. 
3. Definition: (of the portrayal or description of sexual matters) offensive or disgusting by accepted standards of morality and decency. An obscenity is any statement or act which strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time
4. It makes that German was such an offensive language during the time when Hitler was Killing Jews, specifically when the Nazis were in power.

Storm warnings word entry

1. " boughs strain against the sky" p.858
2. I would guess they are clouds
3. Definition, a branch on a tree especially one of the main branches
4. The boughs are straining as the wind is approaching because of the coming storm. They are sort of craning their necks in the wind.



Source dictionar.com

Discussion question storm warnings

Adrienne Rich does a great job of setting up a scene with vivid imagery in great detail in Storm Warnings but do you think that it is a greater metaphor for something else? After reading a brief bio of her in the norton text book what could Storm Warnings be a metaphor for?

Word entry: Living in Sin

1. "...that morning light so coldly would delineate the scrapes of last night's cheese and three sepulchral bottles" (Page 859)
2. My guess: It is an adjective which describe the bottles. In here, because the speaker used the word "coldly" to describe the scene of last night's dinner (cheese), so I believe sepulchral presents the image of  bottles that are unclear or dark.  
3. Definition: 1. of, pertaining to, or serving as a tomb.  2. of or pertaining to burial.  3.proper to or   suggestive of a tomb; funereal or dismal. (Dictionary.com)
4. Explanation: What a strong feeling ! now I know that the speaker use the "sepulchral" bottles to describe her own feeling (or perhaps of her marriage to the milkman) is like a tomb, like dark bottles, full of disappointments.  

Word Entry "To My Dear and Loving Husband"

1. "My love is such that rivers cannot quench, nor aught but love from thee give recompense" (646). 
2. My guess: The word "recompense" may means something about compensation, so the author may mean nothing but love will ever suffice. 
3. Definition: "To repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc." (Dictionary.com)
4. Explanation: The author is trying to convey, in this context, that love is all this person needs is love. There is nothing else, other than love, that will compensate for her love.   

Word Entry #6 - "My Last Duchess"

1."And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
    How such a glance there; so, not the first
    Are you to turn and ask thus" (1009).
2. My guess: Using the context clues in the sentence I think that durst means to do but in the past tense.
3. Definition: "A past tense of dare" (Thefreedictionary.com).
4. Oh I see now. He's describing the painting in his house to his guests, that shows his previous wife. He has "drawn a curtain" for his wife because, as he says later in the poem, she was a very flirtatious women. She was a beautiful women but she didn't have a beautiful personality. So when he says "if they durst", he means that if the guests dare to look beyond her appearance, the beauty would not be portrayed anymore.

Word entry- Barbie Doll

1. "Does't she look pretty? everyone said. Consummation at last." (652)

2. In the poem the author is focusing on how other people define what beauty is. I think the word is used to describe that the girl is finally perfect with "cosmetic painted on" (line 20).

3. Consummation- " the state of being consummated; perfection; fulfillment" (Dictionary.com)

4. Finally! My guess was right. The word consummation means perfection. It always makes an connection with the title Barbie Doll. Has a child I remember Barbie Dolls were perceived to be perfection of an women/female.

I've attached a photo of how barbie would look like in human form. Her body is not proportional and the dolls are just not realistic.

Word Entry "In Time of Plague"

1. "They get restless at last....who are boisterous and bright....the news of life and death" (654). 
2. My guess: I believe the word "boisterous" in this context would mean along the lines of noisy or outgoing because within the sentence the author is talking about a crowd of people. 
3. Definition: Rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy: clamorous. (Dictionary.com)
4. Just as I suspected the author is trying to describe the scene before her, she sees the two men leave who inform the people of the disease and who has died from it.  

Cultural Knowledge Entry -"Barbie Doll"

Cultural Knowledge Entry -"Barbie Doll"
1. Investigating: The title of the poem "Barbie Doll" obviously is a strong hint that poem must talk about something that is artificial or not real, because barbie dolls are objects that are perfectly beautiful and made to make little children happy. The poet of this poem MRGE PIERCY, uses the image of a barbie doll to show  how a woman should look like.We clearly see in this poem that a woman suffers so much for making her self beautiful. She is not being herself but she is working insanely hard to make her look like in away to get other's attention. The thought of good looking and being attractive causes most females to lose their confidence and get stressed.

2. My Guess: In the poem Barbie Dolls we see a child born absolutely healthy. She is very smart and doing very well in school. The fact that her class tell her that "You have fat nose and fat legs", is what causes her to start doing things such as exercising and anything possible so she can look good and avoid getting such unpleasant comments in the future. Over time the stress and humiliation caused to look worse than what she naturally looked like. Not only that she lost her confidence and the freedom of being her self.

3. Results: In reality the little girl wants to look like "Barbie Doll". The girl's personality starts to develop according to how she is being percieved by others  from childhood until the day of her death.
 She sacrificed her life to look like a Barbie Doll which is impossible. She suffered, and developed an anxiety, depression, and self-concerned. She basically the image of a society that enforces woman should be embodied and have a sexy chap. She herself lost self confident and became inferior and weak.

4. Clear Understanding: I definitely see the practical meaning of the poem in relevance to how women are portrayed in the media and generally in any society. Obviously good looking women gets much higher attention and they become a symbol of how all women should look, which is absolutely impossible. The theory of being an attractive female especially in the current century has caused a lot of stress generally for all female to do things, so they can be perceived good looking by others.  The stress of being attractive nowadays starts form very early age and it continues until their death. I think natural beauty is precious and valuable then being a barbie doll. No female should ever be a barbie doll, but her self.

Word entry: London

1. I wander through each street.... And mark in every face I meet   Marks of weakness, marks of woe. (658)
2. My Guess: The setting of the poem is in London, and the author start off with description of its busy street and the people on the street. I guess Woe has something do to with weakness, and it perhaps means tired or worried.
 3. Dictionary: grievous distress, affliction, or trouble. (Dictionary.com)
4. In general, people live in the big city have more stress compare to people live and work in the country side. And in here, "marks of woe" describes the sadness and the suffering of the city lives.  

word entry- Theme and Tone

"The speaker realizes that he is 'attracted by ... my own annihilation' (lines 4-5), and he vacillates in an internal debate between desire and self protection." (pg.657)

I think this word could mean something like the character is getting lost in his thoughts.

Vacillates- to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute. (Dictionary.com)

This definition helps me understand that the character is having a hard time making the decision to engage in relations with these men or not. It's not just that he is getting lost in his thoughts it is that he truly can't make a decision. He wants to fulfill his "desire" and be with these men but it's not that simple because he knows that it could be dangerous.

In Time of Plague

1. "They get restless at last with my indecisiveness and so, first one, and then the other, move off into the moving concourse of people who are boisterous and bright..." (654).

2. My guess: Based on the context I would guess is describing the people as loud and crazy.

3. "Noisy and lively; unrestrained or unruly" (Dictionary.com)
4. I was correct the context in which the word was used in this case helped me to understand what the speaker was attempting to say. Now I can picture with certainty a large, loud crowd that might be hard to make your way through or one that most try to avoid.

Word entry Woodchucks

1. "puffed with Darwinian pieties for killing" (p. 659)
2. My guess is that it is in some way related to Darwinism. I think this means that because of survival of the fittest this creature is suppose to do this or naturally does this in an effort to survive.
3. Definition: Having or showing Duty to God or any religious fulfillment. Dutifulness
4. What this phrase is saying with this word is not in reference to god but instead to a dutiful obligation to what they are doing.


Dictionary.com

Word Entry "My Last Duchess"

1) "The Count your master's known munificence"(49)

2) My Guess: A complete guess, maybe arrogance

3) Definition: "Very liberal in giving, generous"( dictionary.com)

4) Now the dowry line makes sense, the Count is generous and no dowry or money will be disallowed. It is saying he gives his duchess many gifts.

Word Entry "In Time of Plague"

1. "Brad and John thirst heroically together for euphoria - for a state of ardent life in which we could all stretch ourselves and lose our differences." (654)
2. My guess: The word euphoria is not a word that I am familiar with. For some reason I subconsciously feel like it means something like utopia, a perfect place or feeling.  The following words "for a state of ardent life in which we could all stretch ourselves and lose our differences" really create the feeling that euphoria is a state of mind where everything is how one would want it to be.
3. The definition: Euphoria - a feeling of well-being or elation
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/euphoria)
4. The real definition is slightly different from what I predicted it would be. Such a slight change in the meaning of the word has a surprisingly drastic influence on how I read the line from the poem. Brad and John are not thirsting for a perfect place or feeling, they are simply in need of a feeling of well-being, a good feeling. My initial interpretation of the sentence implies that Brad and John are currently in a good place and searching for a perfect place however, my new interpretation recognizes that Brad and John do not having good feelings at all and they simply long for any kind of freeing, positive feeling.

Word Entry "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane"

1. "A screw on the thumb and poisoned him with syphilitic spit." (655).
2. My guess: The word "syphilitic" within this context would probably mean along the lines of acid-like or harmful. I can infer this from the word "poisoned" from earlier on in the sentence.
3. Definition: Pertaining to, noting, or affected with syphilis. (Dictionary.com)
4. Explanation: Knight is trying to enforce the idea that Hard Rock is a man of unstable and dangerous tendencies before he came to the hospital. I also believe the author is trying to illustrate to readers that this is why he was brought to the hospital in the first place.  

Word Entry Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing

1.  "Watching how poems discover a language for feeling can help us discover a language for our own feelings, but this process is also reciprocal: being conscious of feelings we already have can lead us into poems more surely and with more satisfaction." pg. 623
2. I hear this word used all the time, but I never have figured out what it means. I think it means crucial or necessary to something.
3. Reciprocal - corresponding, relating, mutual, as a direct result of. ( Source: Dictionary.com)
4. So I was somewhat close, it basically means that two things go hand in hand or to things have an essential relationship to one another. In this sentence it looks like it means the two things are unnecessary to one another in order to understand and feel poetry.

The Vacuum Word Post

1. "Its mouth Grinning into the floor, maybe at my Slovenly life" (Pg 625)
2.  My Prediction: I think the word slovenly means "crazy" life.
3. Slovenly- Untidy or unclean in appearance or habits.
- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/slovenly
4. This sentence is saying that "It's mouth is grinning into the floor, maybe at my slovenly (Untidy habits) life. Meaning the life is untidy as well as habits/appearance. Hence talking about filth everywhere, and the vacuum cleaner.

Word Entry- "On My First Son"

1.  "Will man lament the state he should envy" (624)
2. I think it means holding on to something that he will never get back. The poem is about the death of the authors' son.
3. Definition: to feel or express sorrow of regret (Dictionary.com)
4. My guess was right! The author, Ben Jonson,  is trying to express that he regrets the death of his child. He wished his soon was still alive.

Word Entry- "Poetry:Reading, Responding, Writing"

1. "Texts may be complex and even unstable in some ways; they do not affect all readers the same way, and they work through language that has its own volatilities and complexities." (pg. 618)

2. I think volatilities could possibly mean having different meanings.

3. Volatiles - changeable (dictionary.com)

4. My guess was close but I didn't fully understand the word. The word in this sentence is describing language that is used when writing poetry. Certain words may have more than one meaning but the meaning can also change depending on the reader. For example a person might interpret a sentence in one way but after rereading it, their understanding may be expanded. Also, different raders may interpret it differently.

Word Entry - Begotten

1. "I stared till I discerned the features they'd gotten from the family larder..."

2. As I read this I guessed that this was referring to his grandparents, since every generation after them has their features.

3. Dictionary.com says that the definition of larder is a room or place where food is kept, or a pantry.

4. After learning the definition of the word, I know that he was using a metaphor to describe all his relatives features as if there were so many to just take from.

Discussion Question: Love Poems

Between pages 619 and 623, the book introduces us to four love poems. Which poem connected with you the most? Why was your connection so strong?

Cultural Knowledge Entry - "My Papa's Waltz"

1. Investigating: "My Papa's Waltz"(734).
2. My guess: I'm confused because I thought that waltz was a ballroom dance that is pretty contemporary. In the poem it is compared to the fathers intoxicated walk, but I thought that the waltz dance was a formal dance.
3. Results: The waltz is a ballroom dance, but it's triple time, meaning it's super fast. From my research I found that there are many different kinds of "Waltz" dances that arise from different countries and cultures; they all include the same basic step but with there own cultural twist. A specific kind of Waltz is called the "Hesitation Waltz" which includes many hesitations that are "basically a halt on the standing foot during the full waltz measure, with the moving foot suspended in the air or slowly dragged". This reminds me of an intoxicated person walking; dazed and stumbling slowing. (Info from freedictionary.com and wikepedia.com.)
4. Now I understand why the author uses waltz to describe the father's walking and presence. I didn't know that there was more than one kind of waltz. I'm not a dancer or have really been into different kinds of dance but I had always thought that waltz was contemporary and formal and would never describe a father who deals with alcoholism. This reference relates to the poem because of the description of what exactly the hesitation waltz is. Although a waltz can be performed formally, the message it portrays is not always that way. In this video it seems like the two are stumbling over each others love for one and another. If you pay attention to their feet and the way their bodies move along with it, I believe this is what the author is trying to describe by waltz; an unsteady movement.

Word Entry: The Ghostly Voice of Gossip in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"

1. "But the voice of the town is the most ghostlike: pervasive, shape-shifting, haunting." (413)

2. My guess: I think it means elusive or hard to keep track of.

3. Definition: Pervasive- existing in or spreading through every part of something
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary)

4. Explanation: My guess was close to the meaning of the word but not quite accurate. Pervasive in this context describes the narrator of the story as a kind of manifestation of the entire town's gossip. The gossip of the town exists in everything the narrator has to say.

Word Entry: Begotten

1. "I saw my face in cousins' faces, heard my voice in their high drawls." (p.668)
2.My Guess: High drawls would be referring to their conversations with other people.
3.Definition: drawl means to speak in a slow manner (dictionary.com)
4. Explanation: high drawls means speaking in a slow manner. With this knowledge the author of this poem is saying that he can hear his voice in the speech of his cousins. When high is added to the word drawls that can be referring to the pitch at which they are speaking.

Word Entry " My Papa's Waltz"

1) My mother's countenance could not unfrown itself.

2) My Guess: Based on the context I would guess that this word means disapproval. She cannot "unfrown" so it must me a negative word and she must not like the dance.

3) Definition: "A person's face or facial expression" (Dictionary.com)

4) This makes sense because she is frowning at the dance and her countenance or facial expression remains frowning because she is not a fan of this waltz.

Discussion Question- "Begotten"

What do you think the significance of the title "Begotten" is to the poem? Do you think the author is trying to emphasize the importance of his children, his kin, towards the readers? Or do you think the title is about his family and sense of belonging to his family? 

Word Entry- "Begotten" by Andrew Hudgens

1. "I stared till I discerned the features they'd gotten from the family larder.." (668).
2. My guess: The word "discerned" may mean to rearrange his features within the context of this poem, it also may mean to make his features seem more harsh. 
3. Definition: To distinguish mentally; recognize as distinct or different. (Dictionary.com)
4. Explanation: The author of this poem is clearly looking for features that have been passed down throughout his family in his relatives. However, when he sees this he realizes he is not related to them, which he points out earlier in the poem. He recognizes or distinguishes the features of his relatives compared to his own. 

Word Post "My Papa's Waltz"

1. "We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance 
Could not unfrown itself."
(735)

2. My guess: To be honest I have no good guess as to what "countenance" means in this passage. I initially thought it had something to do with the "count" of the dance that they were doing. Even though I enjoy poetry, I find that I often have trouble understanding individual phrases even if I understand the entire poem; this seems to be one of those instances.

3. Definition: : face, visage; especially : the face as an indication of mood, emotion, or character
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/countenance)

4. This makes perfect sense now! I actually feel oblivious for not recognizing it at first. "Countenance" means facial expression,  the author is referring to the mother's facial expression. I am not used to poetry being so direct and literal; this phrase is very literal because the very next words are "could not unfrown itself". It is directly saying that the mother had a frown on her face that would not go away. Lesson learned: sometimes the meaning of phrases in poetry is exactly what the phrase says!

A Jury of her peers

"I dont know as she was-- nervous. I sew awful queer sometimes when I'm just tired" (Pg 374). 

I am guessing that the word "queer" means piece of cloth. 

Queer means strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different 

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/queer?s=t

This quote means that when she is tired she sews awfully different. 

Word entry #5: "Out There" by Susan Glaspell

1. "He became so gloomily certain she would do this that he was jubilant when he finally saw her coming along on the other side--coming purposelessly, shorn of that eagerness which had always been able, for the moment, to vanquish the tiredness." (Glaspell)
2. My guess: Almost everyday, this girl was eager to see her favorite picture in this old man's shop. But, since the old man played a trick---he hide the picture, and now he worries this girl won't stop by his shop and look at the picture again. Here, when he saw this girl finally showed up, I guess his probably is jubilant ---as excited.  
3. Definition: showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant. (Dictionary.com)
4. Explanation: my guess from the text is very close to the definition of the word. By using the word "jubilant", the author wants to show how joyful this old man is since he was waiting for this girl for a long time. 

Work sited

Glaspell, Susan. Lifted Masks:"Out There" Readbookonline.net. Web. 13 Mar.2013.

Link to the article: http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/46310/

Cultural Knowledge: Comparing American's women's rights in the Society in the time when the Story "A Rose for Emily" was written to the women's rights today in the American society.

Cultural Knowledge:
Comparing American's women's rights in the Society in the time when the Story "A Rose for Emily" was written to the women's rights today in the American society.

I found it highly interesting how Emily as a female was harassed by the government's officials of her town, and there was no legal involvement to protect or defend her from harassment by these men, especially by people who worked for the government. I might be thinking beyond the structure and the theme of the story, but still it tells me that in the past women were not protected or defended if they were harassed as they are today. As an adult I know that a small amount of harassment to a female could send someone either to jail or prison.

However, if we consider women's rights today in the Middle East, especially in countries that are highly male dominated such as Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Egypt, women are basically considered the least important members of society. The number of men specialists is always higher compare to women in all kinds of fields. Unlike the middle East, today women in America are offered or given equal opportunities in all professions.

All I am trying to point out to is that as we learned that the setting of a story gives the reader the background, where the and when the story was written. Since the story of "A Rose for Emily" was written at a time when women's did not have the rights what they have today.
In the story "A Rose for Emily" the author did not mention of any legal involvement to defend or protect Emily form the the harrasment of her town's legal workers. More specifically, the author never mentioned of police or emily's case being investigated government officlas that work for women's rights. If a story similar to "A rose for Emily" was written today, a part of the story might have been about the legal involvement of the character's case.

Cultural Knowledge: The State of Faulkner's Criticism

(1). "If the conflict is between the two orders it seems curious indeed that Miss Emily would choose Homer Barron, Yankee, amoral, and without loyalty, as her beloved. And her murder of the new order, is the reverse of what actually happened... "(403)

(2). I'm guessing they are referring to the North as amoral because they are more progressive at this time and without loyalty because they were the opposing force against the south, old order.

(3). I was confused as to why Homer Barron is symbolic of the New Order as well as amoral and without loyalty. Since he is the "New Order" why would it be considered amoral and without loyalty? After researching there was evidence to support the fact that the disagreements between the folk culture of the south and the modern north fueled broad based reform movements (Salisbury,Kursten). This hatred between the two sides is what fuels negative opinions between the two sides. According to Salisbury and Kursten this dissension between the two halves caused feelings of jealousy, honor and regional pride (Salisbury,Kursten). The north was industrialized with more and more people working in factories  (Salisbury,Kursten). While the North was moving up and progressing there was still a high rate of crime and this is what the South saw when they saw the north (Salisbury,Kursten). They felt the north was filled with disdain and immorality because of the rising crime rates, open prostitution and unsavory living conditions of the working class (Salisbury, Kursten).

(4). Now the word choice of referring to Homer Barron as amoral makes sense coming from the point of view of Miss Emily, the old south who still has sovereignty embedded in her. There was clearly a natural dislike of the way of life between the north from the south. Not only is the word amoral coming out because there was dislike between the two sides but there was also the light that the south saw the north in. When they saw the north they did not think about opportunity and progress they saw what it brought with it. As I was reading this information I do not think that without loyalty has historical context when talking about Homer Barron but instead it has personal context. Emily has been alone for a long time and everyone that comes close to her goes away so naturally she believes they are all lacking loyalty which is why they referred to Homer Barron that way.

Salisbury, Joyce E. and Andrew E. Kersten. "Atlantic America: Overview." Daily Life through History. ABC-CLIO, 2013. Web. 3 Mar. 2013.

Word Entry #5 - "A Rose for Emily"

1. "But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps - an eyesore among eyesores" (391).

2. My guess: I'm not exactly sure what it means but it's "decaying above the machines". It must mean something happy or playful that has been long gone since the cotton gins took over the "most select street that Miss Emily's house was once a part of.

3. Definition: "Characteristically flirtatious, especially in a teasing, lighthearted manner" (Dictionary.com).

4. I get it, in this sentence coquettish refers to the flirty and fun neighborhood that Miss Emily's house used to be a part of but now that hers is the only one left, the decay of that flirty and fun neighborhood is more distinct.

Word Entry- "The Ghostly Voice of Gossip in Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'"

1. 1.       “Her private life becomes a public document that the town folk feel free to interpret at will, and they are alternately curious, jealous, spiteful, pitying, partisan, proud, disapproving, admiring, and vindicated.” (407)
2. 2.       I think the author used the word vindicated to prove that the townspeople think very poorly of Emily.
3. 3.       Definition: “To clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting arguments or proof” (TheFreeDictionary)
4. 4.       I think I was a little of from my guess compared to the definition of vindicated. I understand why the author, Judith Fetterley, used the word. I noticed the word is in past-tensed. Fetterly could be referring to the last scene in “A Rose for Emily”.  The townspeople invaded Emily’s home and were no longer suspicion of the odd things that has happened in the past. I think that is the part where all the past events fall into place with evidence. It explains the reasons why Emily bought arsenic and for Homer's decaying corpse in the home.