Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar” and Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” People always want to know if they can really make a difference in their lives. Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar” and Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” consider this problem thoroughly. They both portray a person at a crucial moment of his life. Frost’s poem describes the tough choice a traveler has to make about which of two presumably identical roads to pick‚ while Tennyson’s poem focuses on the
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compactness. The poem is deeply ingrained with inherent symbology and imagery. In just nine short lines‚ Frost perfectly captures two of the most thought of possibilities of how the world will end. On the surface it seems to just be about the possibilities of how the world will end in either fire or ice‚ and how Frost personally would prefer the world end in fire over ice. However under all of that‚ Frost lays bare to the reader the ugliness of man. Starting off by listing two major groups of people‚
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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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’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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Hari Jani 2nd Period 10/29/13 Poetry Response The poem “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost is about a person who feels isolated and depressed in their life but thinks everything is alright. The author discloses the isolation and depression the speaker is facing through the use of figurative language and tone. The title of the poem is an important part of the poem because it is repeated in the poem. The use of refrain in the first and last line notifies the
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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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"The Road Not Taken" and "Birches" are two poems by Robert Frost seemingly inspired by nature. Robert Frost was a poet who lived from 1874 to 1963. His poems can be related to the book Into the Wild. Into the Wild is a story about the life and death of Chris McCandles covered by Jon Krakaur who is somewhat of a nature enthusiast himself. In "The Road not Taken" Frost talks about a fork in the road and seeing that he is only one person he has to choose one path over the other‚ after thinking for
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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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A Commentary on “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost As the poem opens‚ we see a very formal phrase “something there is”‚ and rather formal diction. However‚ the language is natural in the sense that it does not rhyme. Also‚ we have a sense that there is a tumbling forth of ideas about the things that want to destroy a wall. We see this from the phrases‚ “that sends…and spills…and makes gaps.” Some invisible force exists that doesn’t love a wall. So the speaker is setting the tone and implying
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