determining our fate has withheld people’s interest for centuries. Robert Burns‚ an Aquarius‚ was very anti-superstition. He had almost no belief in astrological predictions or zodiac signs. There is some humor in this though‚ because through Burns’ poems and songs this pseudoscience shows just how accurate it can be. The most parallel example of Burns’ personality and his Aquarius sign can be seen in the work The Fornicator. Robert Burns was born January 25‚ 1759‚ son to a dirt poor farmer and a
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In "Tree At My Window‚" Robert Frost addresses a tree growing outside of his bedroom window with these words: "But tree...You have seen me when I slept‚ ... I was taken and swept / And all but lost. / That day she put our heads together‚ / Fate had her imagination about her‚ / Your head so much concerned with outer‚ / Mine with inner‚ weather." In these lines Frost conveys several emotions and themes that infiltrate many of his works. These common themes include darkness‚ nighttime‚ isolation‚ inner
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The Lockless Door by Robert Frost shows how an individual is either running away from his conscience or from opportunity. Although there are two sides in this poem‚ both sides are actually connected to each other in a way so that they make a circle. The Lockless Door show the past and the future at the same time. If the poem is the case of his conscience‚ then the individual is perhaps tortured or agonized by something of the past. Frost shows this theme when the door is knocked twice. The person
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brought up by Robert Frost in his rhetorically titled poem‚ “Fire and Ice”. It is a poem that seems to bring up a fictional debate that has existed throughout the history of the humankind. Frost wrote this poem with only 9 simple worded lines yet very powerful. It is deep‚ cruel‚ and it acknowledges certain kinds of truth. This poem demonstrates how two of the world’s extreme emotions can bring up equal amount of devastation. Being well known for his use of nature to coat his poems‚ Frost certainly made
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’supreme fictions’. It does not take more than one reading of the poem to understand that the speaker is not a country primitive who is easily spooked by the normal processes of nature. He knows very well what it is "that doesn’t love a wall" (frost‚ of course). His fun lies in not naming it. And in not naming the scientific truth he is able to manipulate intransigent fact into the world of the mind where all things are pliable. The artful vagueness of the phrase "Something there is" is enchanting
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English 102: Introduction to Literature (University of Maine at Augusta‚ USA) Instructions from professor: Write an essay (at least 3 pages) - Analyze one stanza of the poem‚ focusing on its meaning and on the way the details of the stanza contribute to its meaning. Discuss what this stanza contributes to the poem as a whole. ==========Body of essay========= Robert Frost’s poem‚ "Design‚" is about the hardships of everyday life and the fact that God or some greater being has created nature to
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Anonymous English 1110.02 Dr. - - Due 19 September‚ 2013 Picking Apples and Existential Crises In Robert Frost’s “After Apple-Picking”‚ the speaker drifts into sleep after a day’s work. The speaker begins with an opening concerning his apple-picking exploits. Tired after apple-picking for a while‚ he thinks back to the morning‚ whereupon he experiences a sort of dream state. After this‚ he thinks once again on his exhaustion and sleep and the poem ends. On the surface‚ this poem appears
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able identify‚ analyse and evaluate their own perspectives of life. Robert Frost’s post-modernistic writing style and unique use of simple vignette in his pieces “After Apple Picking”‚ “Home Burial” and “Fire and Ice” depict and reflect upon the liminal processes an individual can undertake to come to an understanding‚ which can deliver them to a new understanding‚ ultimately changing their holistic selves and intrinsic mental
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“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost In this poem the author is talking about two really powerful and potentially destructive forces in the world‚ fire and ice. Both of these are two completely opposite elements. I think that the symbol of fire in Frost’s poem is representing desire‚ and passion. Meanwhile the symbol of ice is used to show hate and destruction. Similarly these elements and the emotions that they represent can be what take us to our breaking points. I believe that Frost is expressing
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Robert Frost’s poem‚ "Birches‚" points out that at certain times in life‚ it can be good to go back to what was once simple and true‚ like when children swing on the branches of trees. The setting of the poem is winter time and Frost seems like an old man wishing to be back in his youth. This paper will examine Frost’s poem in depth to identify all the literary elements that are used. After the literary elements are identified‚ this paper will show how Frost himself wishes to be a child again
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