This is a reference to a Schoolhouse Rock! segment first broadcast on March 27, 1976 called “I’m Just A Bill”, which details the bill-making process of the U.S. legislative branch:

Clayton Bigsby is a fictional character potrayed by Dave Chappelle, he is a southern black male who thinks he is white due to the fact that he is also blind

This painting by Duchamp was his first to spur real controversy as it was an early hint at Dadaism that is to manifest soon after it’s painting in 1912. This movement was similar to the post-modernists in literature with their congruency in the denouncing of decadence and emphasis on reality. O'Hara, curating the MOMA, was heavily influenced by these movements.

Dickinson begins with a declarative statement; she contends that hope is “a thing with feathers” — in other words like a bird, although at this stage the poet uses the comparison tentatively.

However, the speaker uses the definite article “the,” not “a”: hope is the thing that makes the soul take flight or keeps the soul airborne.

Although the dominant pattern is iambic — that is, one unstressed followed by one stressed syllable — the poem opens with a trochee, the word “Hope” being stressed and emphatic.

The line finishes with the first of many dashes, a distinctive feature of Dickenson’s poetry. The effect is to create caesurae; pauses for the reader to reflect and share the poet’s idea.

During the end times, only 144,000 will be saved by God.

Revelations 7:9 are those who are saved.. the multitude no one could count. These 144,000 have a special purpose.

Revelation 7:9: After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;