Robert Frost manipulates the image of an ice storm in order to suggest the mistakes and regretful choices that are made throughout our lives‚ that can’t always be changed. Frost starts of his poem by writing‚ “ When I see birches bend left and right/ Across the lines of straighter darker trees‚/ I like to think some boy has been swinging on them”(1-3). Frost allows a picture of dense line of low hanging trees to be painted‚ the bent trees are a symbol of all the past mistakes frost has made that
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for a fairy tale ending and some may crave a life of adventure. Traveling across strange lands and seeing new discoveries. A story that has been a favorite by many and has relevance to their life is the poem titled Nature’s First Green is Gold by Robert Frost. The author writes about how good things in life do not last for very long. Some of which can include jobs‚ school‚ awards and even relationships. People in today’s society are forgetting how to take opportunities when they are present. On the
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work‚ Birches also takes on blank verse with a sublet iambic patter. The poem is conversational and mimics regular English speech which tends to follow iambic patters along with numerous rhythmic irregularities. The conversational nature of the poems works to fortify Frost’s theme as the loose iambic rhythm guides the reader forward‚ while the irregularities and enjambment acts as punctuations to emphasis imagery to plant each picture in the reader’s mind without losing sharpness. Had Frost used a
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The structure of Blackberry-picking by Seamus Heaney and Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost is similar in that both poems are written in one stanza (despite the fact the Blackberry-picking is noticeably longer). The lines in each poem do not follow a pattern in term of lengths which could be a representation of life’s unexpected ups and downs. On the other hand Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath is written in three stanzas unlike the other two poems‚ however‚ all three poems have a line which changes
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them. To begin with‚ Frost deliberately arranges his words to show who is more accountable for the accident of boy’s hand getting cut. For instance‚ the reader notices that the saw frequently “bear[s] a load” and thus seems to hold more responsibility for a task than the boy (Frost 8). However‚ it is not until line 15 that the saw takes on the characteristics of a double-edged sword. The author carefully phrases his sentence‚ noting that “the saw…leaped out at the boy’s hand” (Frost 17). Instead of placing
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debilitating a poem’s content with forced rhymes. Commentary This is a poem to be marveled at and taken for granted. Like a big stone‚ like a body of water‚ like a strong economy‚ however it was forged it seems that‚ once made‚ it has always been there. Frost claimed that he wrote it in a single nighttime sitting; it just came to him. Perhaps one hot‚ sustained burst is the only way to cast such a
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inspiration of an especially troublesome winter in New Hampshire when Frost was returning home after an unproductive outing at the business sector. Understanding that he didn’t have enough to purchase Christmas presents for his kids‚ Frost was overpowered with dejection and halted his steed at a curve in the street in order to cry his heart out. . After a couple of minutes‚ the horse shook the ringers on its tackle‚ and Frost was cheered enough to proceed home. Accordingly‚ the poem is frequently
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood‚ The key word here is "two". Throughout our lives we constantly face decisions where we have two choices. Even when it seems there is only one choice‚ we can decide either to DO it‚ or NOT do it; so there are STILL two alternatives. And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler‚ long I stood Then there are times we wish we could do BOTH; HAVE our cake and eat it too! We know we can’t‚ so we must agonize over the choices; weigh the possibilities. And
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Critical response Robert Frost –The Oven Bird This poem contains 14 lines and is written mainly in iambic pentameter with a little variation in some lines. Each line rhymes with some other line‚ but there is no regular rhyme pattern. Nevertheless‚ you can call this poem a sonnet in my opinion‚ because it contains the key features of a sonnet: Iambic pentameter‚ an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines) and a theme linked to nature. As mentioned‚ the base metrical pattern of this poem is
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Robert Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes Youth appears prominently in Frost’s poetry‚ particularly in connection with innocence and its loss. A Boy’s Will deals with this theme explicitly‚ tracing the development of a solitary youth as he explores
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