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English 43 C - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The workers are expected to be constantly working and useful for the profits of the law office. Bartleby's refusal to continue partaking in this capitalist structure drives the conflict in this story.
    - - Bartleby's failure to fit into the system results in his surrounding institutions rejecting him. When Bartleby stops working, he loses a place to live and eventually ends up in prison where he dies. His survival is dependent on his contributions to the economic structure of society.
    - - The setting on the story is on Wall Street in New York. The characters are surrounded by narrow rooms, and confined spaces which restrict human agency and connection.
  - - - The setting is described through the bustling city, fast moving crowds, and how the urban environment influences behavior.
      - The narrators pursuit of the old man is heightened by the energy of the crowd.
      - External forces of the city drive the action more than the internal thoughts of the narrator.
    - - The different social rankings of individuals in the city are made clear through their attire and behavior. People of different social classes are observed: clerks, prostitutes, gamblers, and beggars
      - The narrator moves between slums and wealthy areas.
  - - - Janie's external society expects her to be silent, obedient, and useful. Her marriages to Logan Killicks and Joe Starks reveal the role that men expect her to embrace. Logan wants a farmhand, and Joe wants a woman to heightens his political power.
    - - The people of Eatonville gossip about her clothing, marriage status, and social standing.
    - - Janie is judged for "acting white" by porch sitters. Later Janie's fate is determined on trial by an all white jury. She cannot escape from the influence of race and class in either community.
  - - - This poem illustrates an mythical encounter with Zeus and Leda. Zeus, in the form of a swan, attacks Leda. While there are symbolic themes in the poem, the cinematic imagery of this poem is largely external.
    - - This poem is about the Easter Rising, a failed Irish rebellion. The poem described actual historical figures such as Thomas Macdonagh, and John Macbride who participated in this event. The appeal to real people and events roots it in the external world.
  - - - Rather than a poem, this work is a writing guide for poets. This is purely informative and lacks emotion and figurative language.
  - - - The speaker uses vivid external imagery: "marred and with stint of petals," "Meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf." She describes what physically happens to the rose: "You are caught in the drift."
  - - - This poem focuses on external American social conditions consisting from real world observations.
        
        "Young slatterns, bathed in filth from Monday to Saturday"
    - - This is a poem which consists purely of external observations without any internal perspective.
        
        "A red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens."
  - - - The speaker describes his experience of witnessing a Black blues musicians playing music.
        
        He describes external imagery such as "Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool."
- - - - Stream of consciousness
        
        The narrative structure revolves around the free flow of character thoughts. The reader experiences the novel through Clarissa's memories, sensations, anxiety, and internal reflection.
      - Internal conflict
        
        Clarissa questions if her life has been meaningful. She wonders if she has lost a crucial part of herself by marrying Richard. She considers if she has lost her individuality in her efforts to become the perfect hostess.
        
        Clarissa feels a sense of her own mortality upon hearing of Septimus's suicide. Her recurring heart condition makes her aware of her own physical fragility.
        
        Clarissa finds joy in her life by reflecting on memories of her youth. For example: the excitement she felt when Sally kissed her. The joy in her life is derived from past memories rather than occurrences in the present.
      - Outward performance vs. internal feeling
        
        Outwardly, Clarissa is confident, cheerful, and warm. Internally, she is lonely, bored, and desperate to find meaning.
    - - Unreliable narrator
        
        The Governess's account of events is largely influenced by her subjective perceptions rather than objective truth. For example: She views the normal behavior of the children as evidence of "corruption"
      - Repression
        
        The governess behavior suggests a strong attraction towards the master which she must repress.
        
        The governess feelings towards Miles feels overly intimate and inappropriate for a governess.
      - Fear and Hysteria
        
        Throughout the novel, the Governess's fear and anxieties escalate.
        
        She becomes convinced that the ghosts are targeting the children without any sound reasoning for believing so.
  - - - Benjy experiences the world through his senses rather than logic.
      - Quentin's narration structure is extreme stream of consciousness. He is obsessive, has intrusive thoughts, and memory loops
    - - Benjy experiences time without chronological order. His mind moves rapidly between the past and the present.
      - Quentin is desperate to take control over time, symbolized by breaking his watch. He ultimately commits suicide as a final solution.
      - Jason sense of time is fixated on resentment and past grievances
    - - Benjy's inner stability depends on Caddy's presence.
        When she is gone his internal world collapses.
      - Quentin has a psychological obsession with Caddy's sexuality and purity. He fantasizes about lying about incest to protect his perceived idea of sexual morality.
      - Jason's cruelty is derived from internal resentment and bitterness.
  - - - Gabriel is fearful of being judged before delivering his speech.
      - Gabriel rehearses what he should say in conversation revealing his social anxiety
      - Gabriel feels shock and humiliation when he finds out about Greta's memory of Michael Furey
    - - Gabriel reflects on the paralysis of his life, the emotional distance within his marriage, and inevitablity of death
    - - Gabriel struggles between identities: If he is an intellectual or common, a cosmopolitan or Irish Nationalist. He is unsure which identity to embrace.
  - - - The poem surrounds the narrators inner longing for peace. Despite the physical description of the place, the poem is about internal desire and escape
    - - This is a poem about inner transformation, spiritual longing, discomfort with aging, and the speaker's inner spiritual journey
  - - - The poem is constructed through the narrators inner thoughts, feelings, and emotions rather than physical action.
    - - The narrator repeatedly reveals his insecurity, referring to his thinning hair and skinny arms.
      - The narrator is terrified of rejection and judgement from others
      - The narrator reveals his awareness of aging, saying "I grow old"
  - - - This poem is a dramatic monologue in the voice of the mythological nymph, Eurydice. The poem centers around her internal anger, selfhood, and empowerment
        
        Powerful internal language is used such as "So for you arrogance I am broken at last.
  - - - This poem focuses on internal frustration and unfulfilled dreams rather than external action.
        
        Creating physical imagery for a dream deferred: "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore–And then run?"
- - - - Society's expectations for masculinity drives an insecurity within Okonkwo, leading him to exhibit hyper-masculine behavior. His fear of weakness, paired with the clan's standard for masculinity reinforce each other.
      - Okonkwo fears becoming like his father who he viewed as weak.
    - - While Okonkwo's temperament and aggression are internal traits, society's acceptance of violent behavior enables him to act out his aggression with little restraint.
    - - Many characters are placed in positions where their internal morality conflicts with the expectations of their culture.
        
        Okonkwo chooses to violently resist the colonizers because he believes it is right, despite the Clan's increasing wishes or accommodation and survival.
        
        The practice of the culture is to abandon twins in the forest. While many characters internally feel discomfort with this practice, they obey.
        
        Nwoye's disagreement with Clan's violent customs leads him to abandon Clan law and convert to Christianity.
  - - - Without a desolate world around them, the characters begin to feel stripped of their memories and identities.
    - - The characters internally want to escape or do something different but the world around them keeps them confined.
    - - Internally Vladimir feel boredom, fear, and hopelessness. Externally they are confined to a barren landscape without direction. They are trapped both physically and mentally.
  - - - This poem combines real world turmoil with internal dread and moral failings. The beast could represent external violence and chaos, or could serve as an internal fear of what is to come.
  - - - Pound compares the physical faces he witnesses in the metro station to petals on a tree.
  - - - Mixes an external description, "pointed pines" and "green" sea with metaphor. She asks the ocean to "cover us with pool of fir."
  - - - This Poem combines external physical descriptions of the landscape with the internal thoughts and feelings of the speaker
        
        External"Beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds."
        
        Internal: Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted they grip down and begin to awaken.
    - - This poem describes both the external actions of the narrator with his internal feelings of a slight betrayal.
        
        External: "I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox"
        
        External: "Which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me they were delicious"
  - - - This poem discusses his internal rage he feels about being treated as a second class citizen.
        
        "They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes." Tomorrow, "Nobody'll dare Say to me, 'Eat in the kitchen ,"
    - - This poem is a criticism on political systems, economic exploitation, and racism in America. The Speaker describes aspects of the American dream, "Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free," concluding each stanza with "America was never America to me."
        
        The speaker debunks the myth of the American dream, revealing the opportunities for freedom and prosperity were not granted to everyone.
    - - The speaker talks about the collective identity shared by all Black people. He experiences an internal depth that is derived from an external experience that can be relatable to others.
        
        "My soul has grown deep like rivers"