"Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost is a poem about a person who is well acquainted with the night. In this poem‚ the author or the speaker explains why he/she is well acquainted with the night. It seems as the poem progresses that the speaker enjoys walks through the night of a city‚ and that he also enjoys walks in rainy nights. The speaker goes down a sad area of the city were he encounters a watchman were he/she ignores. When the speakers stop because he/she listens to a cry‚ which
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In this poem Frost learns that there are tough decisions in his life and choosing one path in his life was one of those difficult decisions. It is as if the two roads are two people in his life that he cares about deeply‚ but can only choose one. “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood‚ and I— I took the one less traveled by‚ And that has made all the difference‚”(Frost). Frost empowered himself to make an important
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In the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ the author exemplifies how our minds tend to look back at our memories and make the small‚ everyday decisions we previously took seem as though they were great acts of bravery and valor. The author wrote this poem to show how with the passing of time‚ our memories no longer remain reliable‚ as they tend to exaggerate what were once insignificant decisions. In the poem‚ the protagonist comes upon a diverging road and both of his options look the same
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The poem above‚ based on the poem “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost‚ reveals a fear to open up and love after being hurt in the past. Love and trust is represented by the rose‚ and the thorn represents emotional pain that comes as a result of love that has gone away. When one sees a rose‚ it looks beautiful on the surface‚ however every rose has thorns that some forget about and get hurt by. This relates to how love is beautiful and many people strive to keep it in their lives‚ but betrayal‚ lies‚ or
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The purpose of this essay is to analyze the poem of Robert Frost‚ “After Apple Picking” with race and post colonial literary criticism. The subject of racism has been a lively topic for critical debate since approximately the 1950s‚ with critics examining the treatment of various kinds of discrimination based on race‚ religion‚ or gender in literary works‚ both past and present‚ as well as in the attitudes of the writers themselves. In some cases racism is a prominent‚ or even the chief theme‚ while
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One of Robert Frost’s most popular poems‚ “The Road Not Taken‚” uses the choice between two roads to symbolize important decisions to be made regarding everyday life. The poem begins with “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood‚/And sorry I could not travel both” (1-2). Sharing conclusions drawn by a published critic‚ it can be agreed that the poem portrays two roads deviating in the woods as a traveler is out walking‚ and a choice must be made as to which path will be taken (Johnson‚ 2015). Regretting
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In the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ the message is that everyone should be able to have a choice about what path in life he or she takes. In the poem‚ the speaker is walking along a path when the road splits into two. One path is more used and popular‚ but the other path is not used as much. This helps the reader understand the poem by explaining that you could either go the road more used and become like everyone else‚ or you could take the road not taken and be your own person within
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Robert Frost’s "Home Burial" is a tragic poem which presents an engrossing‚ intensely empathetic scenario as it deals with the lack of communication between husband and wife on the loss of their first child which is slowly leading to a breakdown of their marriage as they are incapable of sharing their grief. Written in colloquial language and including a variety of emotions from isolation to anger to bitterness‚ the poem is intensely analyzed narrative that enables the reader to realize the complexities
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On ‘Acquainted with the Night’ ‘Acquainted with the Night’ by Robert Frost is the kind of poem I would read if I were up late at night‚ feeling disconnected from my friends and family. It has a sort of comforting eeriness‚ the kind that could lull you to sleep‚ yet keep you up thinking for hours. It makes me feel detached and lonesome‚ but still at rest. Robert Frost’s imagery like “I have outwalked the furthest city light” and “one luminary clock against the sky” gives the reader a calm but
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world should end‚ what would you decide? Would your choice be to go painfully but fast or slow and painless? That’s what I believe Robert Frost’s poem “Fire and Ice” is meant to express. Although the poem is short‚ it holds a very interesting question to think about. What way would you prefer the world to end? There are two choices. In his poem “Fire and Ice”‚ Robert Frost compares and contrasts the two destructive forces: fire and ice. In the first two lines of the poem he presents two options for
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