Infant Sorrow

what really grabbed my attention was the use of past tense in the first stanza "my mother groaned, my father wept". I think i was a story of the past how he was helpless to his fathers power. It was just his way of showing the oppression that people were under in that time. How that the church had power over all the people and there was nothing that they could do about it.

Infant Sorrow

This peom is sad. It show that poor people and kids didn't really have much at all. Another child meant another mouth to feed and cloth. Back then it was hard if you didn't have money. Without money you couldn't survive like you should of. You get what you can and then you deal with it.

rape of lock

I didn't really understand this story it was very confusing, but i guess it was about hair and how a guy wanted to cut off some of this girls hair. Well when i read it i didn't get any of that out of it. I think that the rhyming through confused me. This story was confusing and i don't understand the meaning behind it.