Robert Frost, in his poem “A Dust of Snow,” reveals that surprising moments can pull us out of serious depressions. He establishes this idea first by using the symbolic meaning of crow to create unhappiness and darkness; second, by the diction of the word snow which would normally mean a slow accumulation, but in this poem, this man’s life has slowly come to the point where everything is bad for him; third, by the connotative use the hemlock tree which is a poisonous tree, but it is used to stirrup some good in the person’s situation; fourth, by ironically saying that the crow saved him and renewed hope and life to him; lastly, by the use of diction with the word rued which means regret, but in this poem, the crow stopped the man from doing…
However in ‘An old man’s winter night’ Frost thinks there is a fraught relationship between man and nature because in the poem the old man seems to fear nature, “and scared the outer night...” This is symbolic of the man’s fear of nature.…
For the reader there should be several different moods that take place. The first of which is loneliness being in the woods by yourself Frost describe this as “and be one traveler, long I stood”. The reader gets the feeling of…
The last two lines in the poem complete the message expressed in the first two lines in that they essentially reassert the efforts of fruitless planting. It shows how darkness can be a shelter. In this case, it can be…
Frost uses the images presented in the poem in a very involved and general way. The paths and the fork no longer refer to their definitions, but instead as keywords in a description of life. Through the poem, Frost is defining life as a series of decisions. Some of these decisions may, at the time, be thought of as insignificant, while others could be thought of as very significant. Frost argues that a decision's significance at the time is not really important, for any choice will change one's life. Every day, people, including the narrator of the poem, are presented with "Two roads" that diverge "in a yellow wood." These roads are not concrete or physical, but rather represent choices. The fact that one road is "grassy and wanted wear" while the other was commonly traversed shows the reader that some choices require one to choose something that is not commonly sought or to do something…
Frost achieves his purpose of creating a poem which “begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” His use of metaphors, soft alliterations and biblical allusions illuminate the idea that everything beautiful eventually fades…
Robert Frost moves from a soft and delicate tone to a more grim tone towards the end of the poem. He uses connotation from a positive to a negative situation. In the beginning Frost doesn't use certain words such as “down” and “grief” that give the reader a certain grim feeling. He uses words like “gold,” “flower,” and “green” as descriptive words. Frost uses personification here, “so Eden sank to grief.” Eden means the biblical Garden of Eden. He is giving human qualities to a garden by having it grieve. For a metaphor he use “nature’s first green is gold.” The two thing’s being compared are nature and gold. Another one he used was alliteration such as “Her hardest Hue to Hold.” The letter “h” is repeated in this line to emphasize “hardest.” Also he uses imagery. For example, for the first line I first imagined a beautiful garden and perfect flowers everywhere, then I imagined a leaf dying next to another leaf for “a leaf subsides to leaf.” Then I imagined a…
In the first section of the poem, Frost explains the appearance of the birches. Frost wants to believe that the branches of the birches bend and sway because of a boy swinging on them. However, Frost suggests that repeated ice storms are what bend the branches. Frost compares the breaking away of the ice from the trees to the "dome of heaven" shattering (Line 13). This could be a metaphor for life using imagery. The ice can symbolize difficult times that come in life, while the ice breaking away may represent renewed hope for the future. Initially, the forest scene describes, "crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow crust-- Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away" (10-12). The words "shattering and avalanching" (11) give the feeling of calamity and perhaps fear or sorrow. A disturbance in the universe is suggested by the "heaps of broken glass" (12) that make it seem as if "the inner dome of heaven had fallen" (13). Frost also lends sound to his description of the branches as "they click upon themselves As the breeze rises"…
to themselves, Frost uses this to tell the story in ‘The Wood-Pile’ showing how this poem is moving forward it is an expedition. ‘The hard snow held me, save where now and then’ the words used here come across as very harsh as snow is normally soft not hard, this inflicts the change in the nature in the area of where the narrator is it always uses visual imagery so the picture of the woods is shown. ‘A small bird flew before me’ A technique that Frost uses is anthropomorphism which is used for the bird, as he shows him as if it is his "last stand".…
As days drag by for the man in the poem whom lost his family, what is he to intrigue himself with? Though it is disconsolate to be without your family, the man fortunately has an orchard of apples to engage himself with. When his family was with him he took care of them, likewise he takes care of his apples now since his family has left him.…
The novel begins in the Fall of 1666. The main character, Anna Frith, is a servant to the village priest, who she tries to get to eat some apples, but he is despondent and broken. Everyone looks weary and Anna thinks back to happier times when she married Sam Frith at age fifteen and left a drunken father and stepmother who overworked Anna. Sam dies, but she has two sons. She cares for Michael Mompellion, the preacher, because his wife, Elinor, is dead. Anna is lonely at night when her empty house gives her no comfort, her children having died in the plague. The next morning, she milks her cow and carries some milk to Michael. At the rectory, she encounters Elizabeth Bradford, whose family fled the village and the plague. When Anna announces Elizabeth's presence, Mompellion tells Anna to tell her to go to hell. Elizabeth forces her way into the house to plead for Mompellion's attendance on her ill mother. Mompellion says that the Bradford family deserted the village in their time of need so he wants nothing to do with them.…
The lush rhythm and language of the poem leads to a generous, but slightly harsh mood, as if the reader is immersed in the "heavy rain and sun" of "late August". The longing for the blackberries is like a desire that is more in the mind than in the stomach that drives the pickers. They are possessive and hungry, picking even the unripe "green ones", filling a "bath". The disgust at the "rat-grey fungus" is half shock and half greed. How dare it spoil the "sweet flesh"? The child is desperate for more, each year he craves for more blackberries, though he knows what lies in their fate.…
We start off the poem with Frost imagining a forest of bent birch trees. He wishes that the trees were bent by children playing on them, a nostalgic, childhood merriment that Frost once engaged in when he was a child, but we’ll get more into that later. Despite his lofty indulgence, he knows what really causes the birches to bend, and that is the “ice-storms”. Using this fact, he goes on to elaborate on the beauty of birch trees; such as comparing the falling ice from the trees as “crystal shells”, or as “the inner dome of heaven had fallen” and even going on to say the trailing leaves were “like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun”. He tends to lose himself in this embellished fabrication…
During his life, Robert Frost, the icon of American literature, wrote many poems that limned the picturesque American Landscape. His mostly explicated poems “Birches” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” reflect his young manhood in the rural New England. Both of these poems are seemingly straightforward but in reality, they deal with a higher level of complexity and philosophy. Despite the difference in style and message, “Birches” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” are loaded with vivid imagery and symbolism that metaphorically depict the return to the nature and childhood, the struggle between reality and imagination, and also freedom and captivation.…
“So it’s because of the apples that we haven’t got one in our village, isn’t it?” asked I seriously one day. Granny only laughed heartily and said nothing. And what could she say? That the good old doctor had retired a few years before and they hadn’t been able to find a new one because nobody had wanted to go to the middle of nowhere, meaning our tiny village, of course. I’m not quite sure whether it was due to the apples or my granny’s love and care or rather both, but I grew a happy and healthy little kid, feeling somehow protected by that gigantic apple tree, with its great thick boughs touching the sky.…