In paragraph 17 and paragraph 18, the author told us what she did when her poems were published for the first time. At the beginning, she spared no efforts to let others know the tidings. Eventually, she calmed down. Why did she tell us the details that she showed off? In my view, she would like to put emphasize on the behaviors of showoffs.
Turning to paragraph 17, the author used subjunctive mood in order to draw forth her story. I didn’t know the two “we’d” here. What did they refer to? I remembered that if there was “had” or “would” right after personal pronoun that was used as a subject, we could transfer it into “’d”. For example, we could write “we’d” instead of “we would” for short. In my opinion, the former “we’d” represented “we had” while the latter one stood for “we would”. Subsequently, the word “right” in the following sentence appealed to me. Why did the author put “right” here? The sentence was complete even though there was no “right”. I consulted the dictionary. I found one of the meanings of “right” was suitable or desirable, or as it should be. So I thought the “right” reflected that the writer was eager to show off her achievement——being a published poets(poet). As a result, she laid the cards just on the table which was eye-catching and easy for people to see. Indeed, I didn’t agree to the author’s showing-off manners. She worked her triumph into the conversation for months and months. It was an exciting and glorious thing, but the audience would feel sick if you mentioned the topic continuously. Therefore, I thought everyone must pay attention to technique and be familiar with the time of showing off. Last but not least, be [to be] a self-restrain person. Or, others would elude once they saw you.
In paragraph 18, there was a sentence linking up with two dashes. The structure was strange and hard for me to understand. So I tried to restructure the sentence. I thought the normal structure was “I eventually calmed down, although it took me awhile”. By means of this method, I finally got it.
