Interesting that he commands Christ to Feed greedy eyes and then to Suck hungry soul.
Why wouldn’t he Feed the hungry soul? Just for the alliteration of Suck and soul?

Regardless, the homosexual undertone continues.

There’s a shift in the poem here, as the speaker begins commanding Christ.

First to feed his eyes.
This could pretty easily be interpreted as a homosexual line redirected at Christ.

Finally, notice how few phonemes are in this line, coupled with the internal rhyme of Feed and greedy. All of that makes for quite a pleasing collection of sounds.

This can be interpreted in a couple of ways.

1) (Literal) The standard denotes the base of the crucifix, where you can imagine the speaker wrapping his arms about. Jesus, then, would be above him.

2) (Figurative) The standard could be an ethical standard. Jesus, being perfect, would sit above the standard in that he never does anything evil. But the speaker will now embrace the standard and try to be good now that he has found Jesus.

Now the poem shifts from pondering the tree’s significance to a narrative.

Since the leaves represent the tree’s utterances this could mean that Whitman wrote some lines of poetry about the tree.

But probably, this is just Whitman relating what he did with this tree. He isn’t trying to create an allegory, but giving readers his experience with this oak.

By the end of the novel, both Frankenstein and the wretch are slaves.

Frankenstein to his misery.
The wretch to his impulse.

Apparently, the wretch felt a deep connection to Frankenstein.

One, perhaps, that only a creation can feel towards his creator after the level of neglect demonstrated by Victor.

Through utilitarianism, Frankenstein justifies his post-creation actions, and believes himself guiltless.

John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham were probably the two greatest contributors to classical utilitarianism.

In short, this ethical theory desires “the greatest good for the greatest number.”

Frankenstein is weighing the amount of good he can do for his own species against the good he can do for the wretch. In the end he decides he can do much more good for humans, but he didn’t consider the fact that the wretch might get upset and kill off his family.

Much like the man to which the Mariner spoke, the sailors were moved by Frankenstein’s speech.

The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:
He cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed Mariner.

This is more of Shelley’s obsession with eyes that we have seen throughout the novel.

This continues to link Frankenstein with the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Shelley makes sure that we’re keeping the poem in mind.

`By thy long grey beard and glittering eye
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?