explicating poems‚ and actually I do not really like poetry‚ although they are beautiful and interesting because I often have a hard time to understand tem. In this essay‚ I choose two poems to explicate‚ which is “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “The Road Not Taken”. Through the process of completing this assignment‚ I have a lot of struggles such as the deeper meaning of each line‚ the grammar‚ the balance between two poems‚ and the figurative languages. Furthermore‚ when I am writing the essay‚ I have
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Night and the Pianist It is said to be true that the Holocaust was one of the most tragic and significant events in recorded history. Personal memoirs like Night by Elie Wiesel‚ and The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman gives vivid images and clear views on those epic catastrophes‚ which allows us as readers to acquire a better understanding of what really transpired during the 1940’s. Elie Wiesel‚ the author of Night‚ wrote his book on a collection of personal experiences that molded his life.
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on the human spirit? “A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”‚ the author suggests that light in this context has a metaphorical significance to life‚ the son advices his old coming of age father to grow awareness of truly being alive. As well as‚ light represents hope‚ as the light is fading the father is moribund
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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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Frost created a scenery where the speaker is looking at a long fork in the woods. Either the speaker can go down one road or go down the other‚ but the speaker does not know which one is the best route. He describes one side of the road to be “grassy and wanted wear; though as for that‚ the passing there‚ had worn them really about the same time” (line 8). In other words‚ the road was well used and known to the community. Then he describes the other side of the fork “in leaves no steps had trodden
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incident‚ has a soft spot and can still have a sense of guilt when committing a wrong act (For example‚ accidentally killing a stray dog sleeping in the middle of the road). However‚ even though Sam Wood is serious about his job‚ and is quite a great man at work‚ he is still a man of his times. The time of which this story was taken place‚ has white people against the coloured people. Sam is a racist‚ and that is exposed in the first chapter whilst when Ralph and Sam had a conversation about a boxing
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MAUS by Art Spiegelman and Night by Elie Wiesel are two stories of Holocaust survivors and their experiences in Europe as Jews throughout World War Two. MAUS is told through a graphic novel format and recounts experiences of the author’s father in the Holocaust‚ who experienced the Holocaust as an adult. It also has some context in more modern times‚ showcasing the author’s discussions with his father. Night is a memoir written by a survivor of the Holocaust who experienced the concentration camps
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delivers a far more interesting and experience than the short story. I enjoyed reading the short story‚ I have to admit‚ the story was pretty scary‚ the mood and tone the author used made me feel like I was reading this on a dark and rainy Halloween night. I think the author did a very good job setting the mood of the story in the first couple lines. The first line states “Overnight it has been raining”‚ rain usually applies a dull‚ sad and scary mood. The author chooses the mother and the 5-year-old
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The Shadow’s Personality. “I am what you have made me.” (Great Expectations‚ 238). Some aren’t able to control their own actions‚ and their purpose in life is decided by someone else. In the Victorian era fiction novel‚ Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens‚ the main character Estella‚ is a beautiful girl raised and controlled by her adoptive mother‚ Miss Havisham to wreak havoc on the male sex. Even though they have the same purpose‚ and have similar qualities‚ both characters have
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boogeyman. Even as adults‚ we still have an antipathy to drive at night or go walking alone in the darkness. So it only makes sense that darkness is used in all forms of art to symbolize some kind of fear‚ unknown thing or place‚ or a mournful state. Within the world of poetry‚ the contrast of light and dark can be seen in hundreds of poems‚ including "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark" by Emily Dickinson and "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost where the darkness symbolizes something much deeper
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