Senior Honors Language Arts February 27‚ 2009 The Road Not Taken “The Road Not 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
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“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening‚” Robert Frost‚ uses literary devices such as the personification of a horse to draw attention to common yet significant ideas. One of the literary devices that Frost uses to get his impressions across to his reader is rhyme scheme; specifically‚ he employs end rhyme. The rhyme scheme in this poem is AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD. In the first three stanzas‚ this rhyme scheme draws attention to the third line. The reason Frost is trying to emphasize these lines is
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Robert Frost utilizes exceptional imagery and figurative to highlight the physical wall between the neighbor and him‚ satirizing the critical emotional estrangement and boundary between neighbors. While Frost deems the neighbors’ outdated insistance of keeping the wall unreasonable‚ the speaker’s attitude was somehow ambiguous for there exists a border in his mind. The small conflicts and emotional changes are realistically amplied by the figurative language and imagery. To begin with‚ the great
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Grief‚ Fear‚ and Anger in “Home Burial” By Robert Frost In this narrative poem‚ the speaker describes a tense conversation between a husband and wife whose child has recently died. As the poem opens‚ the wife is standing at the top of a staircase looking at her child’s grave through the window. Her husband‚ at the bottom of the stairs‚ does not understand what she is looking at or why she has suddenly become so distressed. The wife resents her husband’s obliviousness and attempts to
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From just reading Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost quickly it seems like the speaker is in the woods on a snowy night. The speaker is just taking in how beautiful and calm the scene is. The horse the speaker is riding becomes confused because they are stopping nowhere near a stable. The horse gets annoyed and shakes his harness bells. He or she wants to stay longer but knows that she should leave because it is a long way home. When the narrator says‚ “promises to keep” I see
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Analysis of "Peril of Hope" The poem "Peril of Hope‚" by Robert Frost is about having hope. The poem speaks about no matter how things are one minute they can always change. Hope‚ however‚ is constantly there and will always be there to help get through the tough times until things get better. Imagery is used throughout this poem to help describe the extent of the boundaries of hope. Hope has endless boundaries in this poem it goes from one extreme to the next. In the first stanza
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is taken from Macbeth’s soliloquy ‘Out out temporary candle’ during which he ponders the brevity and meaninglessness of life. It conjointly shows however life will escape thus quickly notwithstanding we have a tendency to see it returning. Henry M. Robert Frost’s “‘Out‚ Out—’” describes a farm accident that unexpectedly and without reasoning prices a young boy his life. The storyteller of the verse form sets the scene‚ on the face of it from AN outsider’s perspective‚ reportage the incident with judgement
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Robert Frost’s Use of Animals and Insects in His Works Robert Frost was born on March 26‚ 1874 in California and moved to New Hampshire when he was eleven years old‚ after his father died. In his poems about familiar objects and characters of New England give his readers a sense of being there no matter where it was read. Frost’s transcendentalist view of nature and the descriptions of the way nature made him feel pulls the reader in and makes them feel like he is a part of the story. In a number
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the story. In the poem‚ The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost‚ themes of choice‚ life-changing moments‚ and exploration are uncovered throughout the poem. In The Road Not Taken‚ a diverged road halts a traveler’s journey. In the first stanza of the poem‚ the traveler states‚ “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/ And Sorry I could not take both” (Lines 1-2). The traveler has to make one choice and only one choice‚ as he is only one person. Robert Frost uses the diverging paths to symbolize the different
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Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall‚” through its depiction of neighbors coming together to build a wall between each other out of tradition‚ suggests that though there may be hope for progressive thinking‚ Americans generally possess unoriginal views and act in opposition to fundamental patterns of nature. While the neighbor blindly follows tradition and justifies the wall-building with clichéd phrases‚ the speaker is portrayed as dynamic regarding his stance on the concept of wall-building. Frost depicts
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