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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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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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Whitman’s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” seeks to determine the relationship of human beings to one another across time and space. Whitman wonders what he means (not as a poet but as another anonymous individual) to the crowds of strangers he sees every day. In stanza 3 the speaker says‚ “I am with you‚ you men and women of a generation‚ or ever so many/ generations hence”. He assumes that they see the same things he does‚ and that they react in the same way‚ and that
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in the poem cathedral by robert carvin the narrator is told by his wife that she is inviting a blind friend over the narrator finds out that his wife has been send audio tapes with a blind man named Robert who she worked for several years ago. at first the narrator was closed minded about the blind man but when the wife bring the blindman from the airport he introduces himself as robert the first thing that came to robert mind was that not what he was expecting a blind man to look like how robert
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genres. Goth is a genre that combines gore‚ horror‚ death and romance. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s “Erlkönig” and William Wordsworth’s “Lucy Gray” are two poems which are Goth but are described and narrated refreshingly different from one another. Both poems were written during the late 1700’s a time when Goth was just starting to gain popularity. Though both poems are gothic‚ they are narrated completely differently. On one hand the German poet Goethe uses the setting and atmosphere to create a sense
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removes any doubt that China‚ and Chinese investors‚ are for real. Only a month ago‚ real estate investment bankers at Eastdil Secured were putting together a selling memorandum about the Waldorf for Hilton and Blackstone’s head of real estate‚ Jonathan Gray. Anbang Insurance Group‚ a 10-year-old Chinese insurance company‚ meanwhile‚ had been looking for a major real estate investment in New York‚ and caught wind that the Waldorf might go on the market. The chance to buy the Waldorf coincided with the
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effect it has on a family. The collage‚ along with the poem‚ can make the reader pray that this kind of mayhem does not bust through their door the way that it busted through Clarke’s. Clarke used ’5 winters’ instead of 5 years to create an image of the cold and harsh conditions that he was feeling while his father was gone. The icicles hanging on the door represent the time and rigidity that Clarke experienced during his father’s absence. The ’late blizzard’ goes along with this as well. Typically
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The theme shown in the poem is that we are all transient; in the end‚ only nature prevails. This is seen in the lines of “The little waves‚ with their soft‚ white hands‚ efface the footprints in the sands‚” which represent that nature (waves) can just easily wipe out our existence (footprints). The poem describes images of soft white waves washing ashore‚ wiping away footprints in the sand. The author used a lot of descriptive words and metaphors. “Footprints” is a metaphor for human existence‚ while
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Crossing Brooklyn Ferry is considered one of the greatest lyrical poems of all time. In Crossing Brooklyn Ferry‚ Walt Whitman uses connotative diction‚ prying questions‚ and critical reader engagement to convey a feeling of connection and unity of people through time. By using these certain rhetoric strategies‚ Whitman creates a piece of poetry that seems to be timeless. Whitman carefully chooses certain words and phrases that really highlight his intentions to connect
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The Staten Island Ferry The Staten Island Ferry has been a municipal service since 1905. It carries over 19‚000‚000 people a year. It runs between the St. George Terminal in Staten Island‚ and the Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan. The Staten Island Ferry runs 24 hours a day‚ seven days a week. You can ride it 365 days a year. It is the most reliable form of mass transit in New York City. It is on schedule 96 percent of the time. It is the only direct form of transportation
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