the two poems provided‚ each one has its uniqueness‚ however they both share similarities just as much as differences. In the first poem “Bright Star” by John Keats‚ the speaker is talking about how they want to be like a star. First‚ the speaker starts out by addressing the star and saying‚ “bright star‚ would I were stedfast as thou art--”‚ which describes the speaker’s wanting desire to be a star. Throughout the poem‚ the tone is very gloomy considering the speaker is wanting to be a star. However
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Robert Frost is a well-known American poet that often includes the element of nature’s beauty. As you read a poem by Robert Frost‚ what seems to stand out the most? Is it his ability to paint a mental picture in your mind that can shift and change? Generally‚ his writing includes nature that shows reality and how it represents life and human experience. However‚ because the deeper meanings of his poems are usually overlooked‚ many people use words such as loneliness‚ anguish and frustration to describe
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Birches’. The poetry of Robert Frost often embraces themes of nature. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and Birches’ are not exceptions. Frost shows the relationship between nature and humans in both poems. In the poem Birches’‚ the narrator sees trees whose branches have been bent by ice storms. However‚ he favors a vision of branches that are bent as a result of boys swinging on them‚ just as he did when he was young. Here‚ he is connecting humans to nature. Frost also lends sound to his
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Sam V. Mr. S. AP English 26 October 2012 Essay Prompt #2 The author‚ Seamus Deane‚ discusses the two greatest pieces that stood out and impacted his own writing style. He does so not by just writing down what exactly changed his mind‚ but rather presenting his two encounters and the following reactions. The first piece of literature discussed was The Shan Van Vocht‚ a novel full of action packed adventure. It held a very big influence during the rebellion of 1798‚ being a main topic of the
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of decisions. Robert Frost has written three poems all revolving around choices. These poems are “The Road Not Taken‚” “Mending Wall‚” and “After Apple-Picking.” In each poem‚ the speaker questions a particular aspect of his life. However‚ each decision‚ no matter how big or small‚ creates a puzzling problem in the speaker’s life. This essay will argue that Robert Frost’s poems‚ “The Road Not Taken‚” “Mending Wall‚” and “After Apple-Picking” symbolically suggest that the poems’ speaker is confronted
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What do the speakers of Frost’s poems reveal about themselves through the stories they tell? About Repeated items (theme‚ diction) Tone (through diction) Words (genre‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ imagery‚ etc.) Alliteration (sound created) Rhyme (end rhyme- group ideas‚ internal rhyme- strengthen idea + emphasizes‚ masculine rhyme- rhyming syllables are stressed and feminine rhyme- rhyming syllables are unstressed) Rhythm Structure Prosody- technical aspects of a poem i.e. rhyme scheme‚ rhythmic pattern
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Taken” by Robert Frost is one the finest poems written in the 20th century. It describes the difficulties of a traveler who has to choose between two diverging roads. Frost uses the roads as a metaphor for life’s many choices‚ and exemplifies how these they decide a person’s outcome in life. It can also be interpreted that the speaker in the poem is promoting individualism‚ self reliance and wondering what he might have missed by not taking the other road. All the stanza’s in the poem have a rhyme
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From just reading Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost quickly it seems like the speaker is in the woods on a snowy night. The speaker is just taking in how beautiful and calm the scene is. The horse the speaker is riding becomes confused because they are stopping nowhere near a stable. The horse gets annoyed and shakes his harness bells. He or she wants to stay longer but knows that she should leave because it is a long way home. When the narrator says‚ “promises to keep” I see
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2008 AP® ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION SECTION II Total time—2 hours Question 1 In the two poems below‚ Keats and Longfellow reflect on similar concerns. Read the poems carefully. Then write an essay in which you compare and contrast the two poems‚ analyzing the poetic techniques each writer uses to explore his particular situation. When I Have Fears When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my
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AP English 11 Zachary Bresnick AP English Writing Prompt 12/13/14 Anxiety Stems from Uprooting In the excerpt from Meena Alexander’s autobiography‚ Fault Lines‚ she describes her constant uprooting of her life as the cause of her fractured self. Her constant uprooting caused her ego anxiety which has triggered a division of self and has unconsciously forced her ego use self-defense mechanisms such as projection‚ repression‚ and regression. Alexander has constantly been moving around
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