“If I had wanted you to know‚ I’d had told you in the poems”-Robert Frost. This is the unfortunate answer that kept popping up as I began doing my research for this paper‚ but thankfully after doing a lot more in depth research and a few mental breakdowns I finally started to get some actual answers. Everyone knows that Robert Frost’s poems are timeless classics that have been famous forever and will still be famous years from now. That being said‚ where did all of this fame come from‚ and what is
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The poem “When the Frost is on the Punkin”‚ written by James Whitcomb Riley uses many poetic devices‚ the most prominent being figurative language‚ setting and circumstances‚ and imagery to aid in establishing the theme of the poem. The theme specific to this poem is accepting literal or figurative death. After all of the farming and harvesting for winter‚ the narrator has time to relax and enjoy the little things in his life knowing that winter is around the corner and he has done all that he can
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got to work‚ and even your own home. Imagine if for the rest of our lives we could be fenced in from everything around us. Imagine taking down a fence and wondering why it was there in the first place. In the short story “Mending Wall” written by Robert Frost the narrator tells a story about how every year two neighbors meet again to mend a wall back together that separates their property. The narrator does not understand what the need for the fence is‚ one has an apple tree‚ and the other has a pine
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In Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay‚” the speaker proclaims that fame and the things we value last only “an hour” (4). Having lost his wife and children which for him were like gold‚ Frost comes to the sobering recognition that “Nothing gold can stay” (8). Frost feels plagued by solitude but struggles with distancing himself. Frost’s two poems “Mending Wall” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” both represent Frost’s desire for human connection because of its value. Though it appears that
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Robert Frost’s: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” The poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”‚ by Robert Frost‚ really caught my eye when I first read it and it left me wanting more. I found myself reading the poem over and over again‚ yet I still could not pinpoint what the theme might be. So after numerous times of reading‚ I came to the conclusion that I would talk about three categories in which help express the theme of this poem. They are beauty‚ nature‚ and responsibility.
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Robert Frost once said‚ “The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification‚ such as sects and cults are founded on‚ but in a momentary stay against confusion” ("Robert Frost Quotes"). This same kind of thinking opened the door for metaphorical poetry and helped to show this poet’s transparency. The struggles of his life and his love for the social outcast are both exhibited greatly in his poems. Robert Frost helped
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a poem? Why do writers write? Most poems are an attempt to pass on a message‚ to give a moral‚ or in any case‚ to communicate in one way or another. An example of a writer doing this in a poem may be seen in An Old Man’s Winter Night‚ by Robert Frost. Robert Frost (1874-1963) wrote An Old Man’s Winter Night‚ perhaps his most well conceived work and published it in the book ’Mountain Interval’‚ released in 1920 as a fine peak to his career. The poem tells the story of the last night before an old man’s
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The poem‚ Bereft’ by Robert Frost‚ describes a night in the life of a lonely man. The line "Summer was past and day was passed." (6) designates that it is the end of the day and that summer has gone‚ giving way to autumn. However‚ this line also encourages the reader to think that the speaker is of a certain age‚ as the end of day can be interpreted as the end of a person’s life. The title‚ "Bereft" indicates that he has lost someone‚ leaving him " alone" (15) in his life. There is no evidence
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Those Winter Sundays Historical Context/Info about Author: Robert Hayden grew up in a poor African-American section of Detroit known as Paradise Valley. At a young age‚ his parents separated and his mother could no longer afford to keep him so he was sent to live with a foster family. His adoptive father was a strict Baptist and manual laborer and while he was a stern man‚ he always attempted to care for and nurture Hayden’s love of literature. Summary: The poem‚ composed in 1962
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The poems " Mending Wall" by Robert Frost‚ and "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes are very similar in many ways‚ and yet very different in others. "Mother to Son" is written from a mother telling her son that life isn’t easy and not to give up. "Mending Wall" is about a man fixing a wall that has holes in it. Both of these poems are about the hard work it takes to get something done. Each of these poems teaches us to never give up when times get hard. The subject of "Mending Wall" is about two neighbors
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