it is really true that he would miss her if she died.But she dramatizes this simple notion by asking her questions in such vivid manner. She wonders, "would the sun for thee more coldly shine/Because of grave-damps falling round my head?" She may be echoing her lover's words, but she enhances them by placing them in question form.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Barrett Browning's Sonnet 23
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They were also quite adept with the women who partied with them; they "knew beautifully how to give to women." They knew how to be warm and inviting, to offer "the tropics, of our love." They also knew when "to persist" and also when to slow down.
They "knew white speech," and they also became very proficient at bringing about the outcomes they desired just by a skilled look.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Brooks' Gay Chaps at the Bar
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The speaker shifts from the possibilities of the man's past to what he is now observing: the speaker sees the man at a "yard sale" on a rather cool morning, but the man is wearing a "tight black T-shirt," and he has his sleeves "rolled up to show us who he was."
The speaker assumes that the man is still quite proud of his dagger-through-heart tattoo, because he has it displayed so prominently even on "this chilly morning."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Kooser's Tattoo
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Unfortunately, Putt accidently killed the man while in commission of the robbery. This unintended felony then got Putt "tried and hanged." And he says, "That was my way of going into bankruptcy." He thinks he is quite clever in comparing his crimes to what he assumes to be crimes of others that he only vaguely understands.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Masters' Hod Putt
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She then says that that man is her husband. She accuses him of horrifying cruelty: he "robbed me of my youth and my beauty." This robbery continued for a lifetime; she died "wrinkled and with yellow teeth." He broke her pride and caused her to feel "shameful humility."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Ollie and Fletcher McGee
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The speaker creates an extended metaphor likening her scrutiny of "the book of myths" to diving down to a shipwreck. She compares herself to the divers who plunge deep below the Atlantic to gather information about the Titanic. The speaker, therefore, has made a judgment about that "book of myths"; it is like a giant ocean liner that hit an iceberg and sank into the sea, and now this brave speaker will determine the cause and possibly salvage whatever she can from the "wreck."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Rich's Diving into the Wreck
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In the sixth stanza, the devotee sweetly reminds the Lord of the many little notices he takes of the Divine presence in the physical world: he feels Him in the breeze, he senses the love of the Divine in the warmth of the sun, he sees the Lord's face in "colorful scenery," and he sees God dancing "in the waves." He knows that God is dancing over his own thoughts as the Blessèd One eternally continues, "To listen to my soul song."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's Listen to my Soul Song
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