Most recent public comments by William Guth https://nowcomment.com/users/89991 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251837?scroll_to=2294582 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251837?scroll_to=2294582 This demonstrates the fact that Georgiana has found a place where she can be happy, thus demonstrating the theme of rediscovery of new homes. Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:02:30 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251837?scroll_to=2294581 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251837?scroll_to=2294581 This demonstrates the theme of people being forced out of their ideal paradises (or fleeing them) and rediscovering them Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:00:52 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251837?scroll_to=2294579 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251837?scroll_to=2294579 This demonstrates the recurring theme of things, parts of the self being left behind. Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:59:05 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251837?scroll_to=2294578 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251837?scroll_to=2294578 This metaphor helps illustrate the narrator's contempt and pity for his aunt condition. To the narrator, she is both feared and pitied after a fashion. To the Narrator, she is seen as a withered, soulless shell, not unlike a burned out corpse, grotesque and pitiful. Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:57:36 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251837?scroll_to=2291720 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251837?scroll_to=2291720 The metaphor in this paragraph compares his recollections of his past to a vast gulf. This brings to mind a sense of resentment and alienation. This contrast goes to show the narrator's detatchedness from Georgiana. Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:08:38 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2194817 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2194817 I agree with this statement, as Smith emphasizes with the diction the cultural, spiritual and historical importance of the land continually throughout his transcription. Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:09:12 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2158872 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2158872 This sentence best exemplifies the self reliant and individualist attitudes of the trancendentalists. This dislike of statism is most evident here, as this quote implies it as incompatible with free individuals Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:03:56 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2158520 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2158520 In modern society, this facet is still demonstrated. While most societies see it as socially desirable to act "for justice" or society has evolved a subset that use this as a way to gain social capital off of real and painful struggles, such as companies with histories of the higher ups donating to homophobic lobbies putting a pride flag on their twitter pfp. It often extends even beyond inaction into the realm of malice or avarice, or a desire to appease one's own guilt. Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:19:41 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2158519 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2158519 This quote demonstrates a romantic ideal: that freedom is an action as opposed to a inherent thing. Sure, the constitution may have some empty promise of rights, which indeed are just an appropriation of the freedom that people create and preform. Freedom does not come from above but instead from within, which no words on a piece of paper can change, and indeed can pervert by forcing it into a single realm of interpretation. Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:13:22 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2100181 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2100181 What I find most interesting is the weight carried by the diction Smith choses to translate into Chief Seattle’s speech. It makes his tone sound indignant and proud, yet somewhat sorrowful. His use of the term "perished" is but one example. The words used reflect a man being forced from his childhood home by strangers. There is a measure of resignation as well as pride in the speech, pride or the land he walks on and resignation to the ones who he knows will take it. Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:19:46 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2100163 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2100163 This use of diction also can be considered a cultural translation into the cultural context of Judeo-Christianity, and serves to bridge that gap. It reinforces the meaning by putting the land's value into perspective Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:17:40 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2100135 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2100135 This use of the word is much stronger than alternative words. Perhaps Smith chose this particular translation because it carries much greater weight Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:14:27 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2050604 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2050604 What I find most interesting is the weight carried by the diction Smith choses to translate into Chief Seattle's speech. It makes his tone sound indignant and proud, yet somewhat sorrowful. The words used reflect a man being forced from his childhood home by strangers. There is a measure of resignation as well as pride in the speech, pride or the land he walks on and resignation to the ones who he knows will take it. Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:53:27 -0400