Analysis Of “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost
.... are always going to wonder what might have happened if you had chosen the other path. The speaker has no way of knowing what awaits him at either of his destinations, but he still must choose between the two paths.
The most common literary technique in “The Road Not Taken” is symbolism. The whole poem is very symbolic because the speaker reflects on the decision that he has to make, and the consequences of that decision. The choice that he has to make is not just which road should he walk down, because that would be insignificant. The choice he has to make will affect the rest of his life and determine his own fate. It shows u .....
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Comparison Of Frost's Two Tramps In Mud Time And Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
.... it was grassy and wanted wear"(8), he makes the choice to go down the one less traveled. This poem shows that nature can be beautiful by setting you free to letting you choice and to enjoy the view that nature has to offer.
On the other hand, there are a few poems which show that Robert Frost was less in awe of nature and fearful of it. One of these is the poem "Design". It takes two of nature's most innocent characters, the moth and the spider, and then finds a tragic death in their lives. Why must the moth die? Why is nature so cruel? Frost questions how nature can be so beautiful, yet so crazy at the same time. If t .....
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John Keats
.... grandmother’s and will later be joined by Frances when she left William with the family business. Frances died from tuberculosis when John was fourteen years of age. Frances’s death furthered financial problems for the family, which started when her father died. Now, John and his siblings were left with a guardian to live their lives.
John never had any interest in books at his young age and it was only until he was at the age of fourteen that he was passionate towards literature. Though his interest was in poetry, John’s guardian forced him to attend medical school. This did not last for John long and soon after he was .....
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The Effect Of Poetry
.... the song.
In the song, she gives her niece permission to stop fighting and to fly above the clouds on an endless journey of happiness.
A friend of mine introduced me to this song while I was in the hospital with my daughter. After listening to the words of this song, I made the heart-wrenching decision to take her off life support. When I brought my daughter home, I would sit and rock her while playing this song. I wanted her to know that when she got tired of fighting, it would be allright to fly above the clouds. Being afraid and sad were feelings I knew I would have, but I didn't want her to feel them too.
When Cheyenne .....
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Criticism Of Keats' Melancholy
.... of which Keats’s decided to remove before the poem was published. According to Gaillard, the original “stanza did survive in Brown’s transcripts, but many critics have made only passing references to it, avoiding discussion of the structure, language, theme and imagery of the poem as a full four-stanza work”(19). Gaillard believes that the deleted first stanza’s inclusion is very vital to the symmetry and structure to the poem. He states,
“With stanza one’s omission the poem ‘s original symmetry
is destroyed, and we lose the effect of Keats’s careful balancing
of equal stanza pairs to embody negative and positive .....
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"A Small Elegy"
.... "Mon maminku," my little mommy, which the translator has rendered as "my diminutive mom." He imagines that after all these years she's still sitting back there, quietly uncomplaining, thinking about his father who died so long ago. It is the next moment in the poem, when the tense radically changes, that I find especially compelling. "And then she is skinning fruit for me," he says, "I am in the room. Sitting right next to her." He doesn't say "And then she was skinning fruit for me," but instead finds himself catapulted into the past as a living present. He has been wrenched out of one time into another. The amplitude of his feel .....
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Mr. Flood’s Party: A Cry For Help
.... Robinson also speaks of “A valiant armor of scarred hopes outworn,” stanza 4, line 18 symbolizing his once strong-willed ambitions and how they now appear lost to him. The reference to Roland’s ghost in line 20 and its comparison to Flood’s struggle symbolizes his loneliness and futile cries for help with his unknowing battle against alcoholism. In stanza 7, line 47, Robinson refers to the tow moons, clearly symbolic of the severity of Flood’s drunkenness. These symbols help to convey the serious tone revolving around the overall theme of the poem.
Robinson’s attitude towards Flood’s dealing with his alcoholism and its e .....
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Sonnet 18
.... from heaven and the seasons are changing. Shakespeare has taken the idea of a warm breezy summer day and twisted it into a sweltering day with the sun beating down on us.
However, in the lines after the destruction of a nice day, he twists things back by the comments he showers on his love. He tells us that his love's beauty shall remain the same at all times, "…thy…shall not fade"(ll. 9). He places an exclamation on that line by using the word eternal. It gives us the feeling that her beauty is one that will last until the end of the earth. Shakespeare then goes on to speak about how exquisite she is. She is different .....
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Herrick Vs. Marvell
.... personally. In “To His Coy Mistress” Marvell is addressing his mistress personally. He wrote the poem for his mistress to convince her to become intimate with him. The difference makes a change because now Herrick’s poem affects the reader (depending on if she is female) since it refers to all virgins. However, Marvell’s poem does not since he is referring to one particular individual.
The them of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” and “To His Coy Mistress” is carpe diem. The carpe diem them states, “life is brief, so let us seize the day.” In “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” Herrick simply states:
Then be not coy .....
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Emily Dickinson's Literary Devices And Techniques
.... to be able to pull up words which rhyme.
The use of paradoxes in Dickinson's poems is another technique which she takes advantage of in order to make her poetry interesting and enjoyable. Paradoxes are contradicting subjects or statements Dickinson demonstrates her use of paradox in several poems, the most notable being "Much Madness is Divinest Sense." In this poem I believe Dickinson is trying to assert that in madness, divinity can be derived. The same can also be said about finding divinity in madness. Two characteristics are opposite in meaning, but the adage of opposite attract can be applied here. This is what .....
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The Saginaw Song
.... dominant words that reveal a somber tone, which runs throughout the piece. In the second line, the words ‘dizzy’ and ‘easy’ are paired as sight rhymes. Although the rhyme scheme is entertaining, the late night waltz between father and son is serious.
The poem is told by a boy who remembers waltzing with his father. The first stanza reveals that the father has been drinking and that his breath ‘could make a small boy dizzy.”
Imagery is used to describe how the boy interacts with his father. He ‘hangs on like death, ’as the pair romp with such a vengence that the pans almost ‘slid from the kitchen shelf.’
The boy describes his .....
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Beowulf
.... places. Beowulf said
that his father was favored far and wide because he was a very noble lord. "The
swift current , the surging water carried me to the far off Land of the Lapps ,"
said Beowulf as he told a story to one of Hroathgars' retainers. When Beowulf
talked of where Grendel lived he said ,"These two live in a little known country
with wolf-slopes , windswept headlands where a mountain stream plunges."
The protagonist of Beowulf , Beowulf , is a figure of national and
international importance with great historical and legendary significance. "Then
he who feared no man , the proud leader of the Geats," said the autho .....
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