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    Robert Frost takes our imagination to a journey through wintertime with 
his two poems "Desert Places" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". These two poems reflect the beautiful scenery that is present in the snow covered woods and awakens us to new feelings. Even though these poems both have winter settings they contain very different tones. One has a feeling of depressing loneliness and the other a feeling of welcome solitude. They show how the same setting can have totally different

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    differences have been overcome‚ and cooperation has occurred. All of these acts are clearly identified in the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. He uses the wall as an extended metaphor to reveal the narrator’s thoughts about overcoming differences‚ cooperation‚ and unity. Before the members of any group can merge together‚ they must overcome the differences among them. Frost makes this apprehensible in his poem through the dialogue of the narrator. To exhibit the differences in himself and his neighbor

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    with the Night In the poem「Acquainted with the Night」‚ Robert Frost suggests the example of human who has encountered‚ admitted‚ then accepted the troubles of life‚ through the characterization of the speaker‚ changes of the spatial setting‚ and the use of rhyme scheme and framing. The speaker’s behaviours while he’s walking through the poem show the speaker’s impassive character‚ and they also show the speaker is accustomed to s isolation‚ loneliness‚ and depression. When he comes across the

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    Robert Frost manipulates the image of an ice storm in order to suggest the mistakes and regretful choices that are made throughout our lives‚ that can’t always be changed. Frost starts of his poem by writing‚ “ When I see birches bend left and right/ Across the lines of straighter darker trees‚/ I like to think some boy has been swinging on them”(1-3). Frost allows a picture of dense line of low hanging trees to be painted‚ the bent trees are a symbol of all the past mistakes frost has made that

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    illustrates how Frost uses nature in his poem. In Robert Frost’s poems: “Fire and Ice”‚ “A Prayer in Spring”‚ and “Desert Place”‚ the power of nature is exercised metaphorically to exemplify the positive and negative aspects of human nature. Human nature can be described as pure nature; one minute‚ people are content with life and then the next they are devastated with it. Humans are just as complex in personality and behavior as is nature with its change in seasons and etc. Robert Lee Frost

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    The main interpretation of this poem is about a soldier fighting in a brutal war. This poem was written during the first world war in 1914. Frost describes a lone soldier who fell during battle. Frost also describes a soldier that is witnessing many harmful things that were going on during the war and causing this world’s destruction. Although‚ I believe there is also a hidden meaning. I believe that the poem symbolizes all the soldiers and people that were forgotten at war. All throughout our

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    I interpret this poem as a metaphor for life. Way too often we are in a hurry to get through the "dance" that we do not stop and enjoy the music. The small but beautiful things in life are the music. The rain‚ the sunsets‚ our children growing are all wonderful things that happen. Unfortunately‚ the majority of the time we are all in a hurry just to get through the day to make it another day to do the same thing. We need to take the time to slow down and look around and appreciate those small

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    Approaches to metaphor: Structure‚ classifications‚ cognate phenomena HELEN V. SHELESTIUK Abstract The article aspires to present a systematized view on the contemporary understanding of metaphor essence and structure‚ reviews various classifications of metaphor‚ and discusses cognate ‘similarity-based’ phenomena in natural language. The opposing views on metaphor as a three- and twocomponent structure are reconciled in the article through the analysis of di¤erent kinds of metaphors. Three types

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    A. “Out‚ Out – ” by Robert Frost 1. The title is a quote taken from Shakespeare’s play‚ Macbeth. In the context of the play‚ in which Macbeth says “Out‚ Out brief candle” (which he says after being informed of his wife’s death) both suggests and conveys the brevity of life. This is to say‚ Frost writes about the uncertainty and transitory state of life in this poem. He compares life to a candle‚ which can be blown out rather simply. The darkness left after a candle after being blown out can be

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    Life in the past and life now-comparison. Over the last century‚ there have been many significant changes in the way we live. Obviously‚ it is hard to compare the life of the ancient people and the life of the people of the twenty first century because so many changes have occurred. However‚ even the changes that have taken place over the last ten years are amazing. To start with‚ people were not able to travel such long distances in such short period of time. The planes were not that popular then

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