The Swimmer by John Cheever

I liked this story because it has a lot  of interesting symbols like the pools and the passing seasons, if you understand these symbols it will be easier to understand the story. 
Ned seems to have a perfect life, at least that is what he thinks, but as he travels pool by pool, he feels lonly because most of his friends disappear, even his family dissappears in the end of the story. This is a way to tell that you have to take care of what you have. Also every time he goes into another house or pool, you know something about his past, mostly bad things, since he rejects those things. As this happens he begins to feel older and with no condition. 
About the seasons, this guy believes that everything happened in 1 day, but actually everything happened in one year. It begins like a beautiful dream in spring and ends in a horrible nightmare in winter when he sees he is all alone. At the end is when he realizes everything that has happened; as if each pool represented a moment in his life. 

Mexico City Blues - 127th Chorus by Jack Kerouac

Nobody knows the other side

of my house,

My corner where I was born,

dusty guitars

Of my tired little street where

with little feet

I beetled and I wheedled

with my sisters

And waited for afternoon sunfall

When I read the beggining of the chorus it makes me think of the childhood of a person, but it can be a sad or poor childhood as it says "nobody knows the other side of my house, my corner where I was born". Maybe it is a secret or something nobody could have ever imagined, he could have been born in a difficult situation. 

                                               And ma's to bring me back  

to supper mainline


Hum washing line tortillas
and beans,
That Honey Pure land,
of Mominu,


Where I lived a myriad
 kotis of millions
Of incalculable
be-aeons ago


When white while joyous
was also
Center of lake of light

In Vain by Jack Kerouac

I think this poem has different ways to undestand it, that's why I think it is quite hard to explain. 
First of all it repeats a lot the phrase "in vain" every time it says something before... 

The stars in the sky

In vain

The tragedy of Hamlet

In vain

I believe that what the author wants to say is something like "anything in life is not worth it", or also it can be something like "everything that has happened for what?" 

Abraham Lincoln 

In vain

The Aztec empire

In vain

It is even more difficult to know what the author wants to say because it mentions a lot of different things, in nature, art, and history. When I read the parts about history I think that the author is saying that in the end all those fights and time of government was for nothing because society forgets about things, what also makes me think of ignorance. 

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

To be honest I didn't like the story very much because of the fact that, at least for me, is very confusing, nevertheless it is a very intresting story because it is about the illness of a woman, but we can't really know what kind of illness she had; she could've been mad or depressed. I trulla believe she was mad, because she killed the man he loved and kept the body in her house to feel close to him. Also because when her dad died, she didn't really accepted her loss and she starts to go into a depression; but the most shocking part of this dark parts is when she says she saw the Colonel and she admitts he told her she didn't had any taxes. At this point I thought that she was crazy or a liar. 
Another important fact is when she goes to buy the arsenic and doesn't want to tell what does she want it for "I want the strongest" she says, I thought she was going to commit suicide because of her depression that she was really alone, and the town people believe she is insane. 
There are many weird events that happen a long the story, like the smell in Emily's house, the way she acts towards others, the fact she doesn't accept her father's dead, and that she doesn't let anyone inside her house. But I noticed that the thing that catches all the attention is the constant presence of death and weird attitudes. 
The story is quite good but for me it is hard to understand because it doesn't have an easy order of the events. 

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

I didn't really got the meaning of this reading, but I know and understand that it is a sermon for the people that commit sins, which I think is a little bit exaggerated because God can forgive people if they really regret their sins, he is not a monster that will forget about you and will envere ever forgive you. 
But I think that while you read the text you can really feel afraid, and it makes you think "and if this was true?". Maybe this was his point, to make people afraid of sins, so everyone could start making good actions, and that's why he described god as a mean monster that will never forget your sins and will make you suffer because you are mean, so you have to respect him and others to be accepted by him. 
I liked this sermon because it transmits a lot of feelings and fear, it can convince you to be a good person. 

I Knew a Woman by Theodore Roethke

At first sight I found this poem lovely and thought it was from a man in loved to his beloved... 

"I knew a woman, lovely in her bones"

But after reading it carefully, in some parts I found out it had like a double sense, or that it had erothical parts. 

"Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,
Or English poets who grew up on Greek
(I'd have them sing in a chorus, cheek to cheek)."

I infer that the man is really in love with that woman, he is so in love with her that he got the chance to know her better than any other woman he has seen. Actually in the whole poem he describes her in three ways, by her body, her heart, and her "moves". What he means is how she moved in bed.

I liked this poem because it describes the woman in a beautiful way, because eventhough it contains erotical content, it is a descent way to describe a lady. 

Song to Myself by Walt Whitman

To be honest I couldn't understand a lot of this "song", but what I'm pretty sure of is that it talks about life and many different things and moments in one person's life.
The song is divided in different sections, I can see that there is not a relation between them, or a meaning in the order in some of them, but at the beggining I can see that the first one talks about external things and the second one of internal things. The sections that I read talk about different things, for example number 8. I kindda understood that it is talking about different scenes that happen at the same moment, a suicide and the daily normal activities. And number 21, I think it is talking about equality between many things and in many ways, in nature and between human beings.
But honestly I didn't understand more than that.