The poem "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"‚ by Robert Frost‚ is a short‚ yet intricate poem. What appears to be simple is not simple at all. What appears to be innocent is really not. The woods seem pristine and unimposing‚ however‚ they are described as being "dark and deep"‚ and it is the "darkest evening of the year". He speaks of isolation‚ "between the woods and frozen lake" and of duty "But I have promises to keep". And also‚ Frost’s usage of "sleep" easily implies death. Though this
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Robert Frost is often misread as a "Currier and Ives" poet‚ a verbal painter of pretty scenes with his focus on rural New England. His poems are much more than pretty pictures‚ and Frost himself speaks often about the symbolic meanings and underlying elements present in his poetry. Some of his pieces are sorrowful‚ pictures of characters who are emotionally estranged from life. Even his most optimistic poems are tempered by tension‚ anxiety‚ and uncertainty. "Birches" is an up-beat piece reflecting
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Solitariness Robert Frost has written on almost every subject‚ but alienation and isolation‚ both emotional and physical‚ are the major themes of his poetry. His‚ ‘book of people’‚ North of Boston‚ is full of solitaries who are lonely and isolated for one reason or the other. Frost is a great poet of boundaries and barriers which divide men from men and come in the way of communication‚ and so result in lack of understanding and friction. Man is not only isolated from other man‚ but Frost pictures him
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without undue worry about the future. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and Nothing Twice by Wislawa Szymborska reflect the nature of time and decisions. As we learn that the passage of time is unstoppable and unpredictable‚ we can only try to make the best decisions possible without undue worry about the consequences. Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken made me realize how people spend too much time worrying about their unpredictable future. Frost begins with‚ ”Two roads diverged in a yellow wood‚ and
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life. In the short story ‘Forgotten Jelly’ by Megan Jacobson‚ it demonstrates how an individual understands the consequences and issues while time progresses‚ which in turn leads to a change of perspective. Likewise‚ in the poem ‘Mending Wall’ by Robert Frost‚ we observe how‚ as the characters develop‚ they understand and gradually learn more about the perspective of others and eventually leading to a change of their previous views. The change of perspective in society would eventuallyhave a positive
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If I had to choose between Darrel Jenkins and Sara Fong’s essays pertaining to Robert Frosts poem‚ “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” I wouldn’t be able to say who was rite or wrong. They both make valid points and‚ support their theory very well. Sara Fong states‚ “I think it makes sense to read the poem as a kind of very short story” (par 3). This statement is true‚ if you interpret a poem as a short story you can get a better sense of the plot‚ setting‚ ect. Fong also states that the last
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A poem with many meanings??? Take a glimps into my brain and see how I perceive it! The literary work that caught my interest was‚ “The Road not Taken”‚ by Robert Frost (1916). Even though this poem may not affect someone else who reads it‚ I enjoyed its so much. This poem means different things to each person that reads it. I connected with this poem because sometimes I wonder how my life could have been different had I chosen a different road! When I consider this poem both roads were a lot
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first speaks aloud to a work of literature in Chapter 1‚ when he compares himself to Pip from Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations.” As he lies dying in Chapter 9‚ Johnny speaks these words to Ponyboy; “Stay gold.” Those words are a reference to a Robert Frost poem that Ponyboy repeats to Johnny when the two are trying to hide out in the Windrixville Church. One line in the poem reads‚ “Nothing gold can stay‚” which means that all good things must come to an end. Finally‚ the last and final literary
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Mending Wall‚ by Robert Frost portrays the routines of two neighbors who are constantly mending the fence‚ or wall‚ that separates their properties. If a stone is missing from the fence‚ you can bet that the two men are out there putting it back together piece by piece. In Frost uses imagery right from the beginning that lets us know a little bit of the setting with “frozen-ground” (Line 2). He also uses assonance in lines 2-3: “Sends…Swell / Spills‚ Sun”. In lines 17-19‚ Frost uses metaphor‚ personification
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Dickinson and Frost expresses their views on darkness and night in the poems‚ “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” and “Acquainted with the Night”. Although the two poems have a similar subject and imagery‚ there are differences in the tones and views. The subject of the two poems is the struggles in life‚ which is symbolized as night and darkness. In both poems‚ there is this walk or journey that the narrators take‚ most likely a metaphor for life. There seems to be a similar choice of words to depict
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