Analysis Of “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost
.... take you, and 2) a tale telling the reader to be different, and to take the road “less traveled”.
“And sorry I could not travel both…” It is always hard to make important decisions because you 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 ver .....
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Comparison Of Frost's Two Tramps In Mud Time And Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
.... nature. In the poem "The Road Not Taken ", the man has to make a decision at a fork in the middle of the road. He notices one road has been used many times and the other road looked hardly used "Because 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 i .....
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John Keats
.... death because she later married only two months after. Frances and her new wed husband, William Rawlings, had a terrible marriage from the start. As a result, the children were sent to their 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 .....
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The Effect Of Poetry
.... this song in remembrance of her infant niece. She had no children of her own at the time and was very close to her niece, who died SIDS, and she expresses her feelings for the child very eloquently in 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 .....
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Criticism Of Keats' Melancholy
.... They also convinced me that Robert Burton had an influence on Keats’s poem.
In Keats’s Ode on Melancholy, Gaillard explains that the original “Melancholy” was composed of four stanzas, the first 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 wor .....
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"A Small Elegy"
.... toward his childhood home where his mother seems still to preside--diminished now over an outmoded world. She is smaller, more vulnerable, someone to be protected. "Matku," he says tenderly in Czech, "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 fin .....
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Mr. Flood’s Party: A Cry For Help
.... to the passage of time. At this point Flood appears near the end of his rope. The jug Robinson refers to in line 14, “The jug that he had gone so far to fill,” is symbolic of Flood’s life accomplishments. 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 .....
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Sonnet 18
.... 2) during that day. He then proceeds to bombard us with images of natural nuisances such as windy days that "…shake the darling buds of May"(ll. 3); which hot weather magnified because it is coming 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 .....
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Herrick Vs. Marvell
.... way the writers feel about their characters.
Both poems are directed to two different audiences. In “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” Herrick is speaking to all virgins. He never addresses anybody 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. Ho .....
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Emily Dickinson's Literary Devices And Techniques
.... and smoothness of the poem. Poetry, which can incorporate rhymes into the body of the poem, makes the poem catchier and easier to remember. Rhyme also displays a writers creativity and intelligence 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, th .....
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The Saginaw Song
.... the piece and each line rhymes with every other line. For example, in the first line ‘whiskey on your breath’ rhymes with ‘but I hung on like death’ on the third line. The words breath and death are 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 .....
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Beowulf
.... never set eyes
on a more noble man , you are no mere retainer."
Although the action in Beowulf consists of great deeds , the setting of
the story is vast scope covering great lands and far off 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 .....
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The Poetry Of William Cullen Bryant And Emily Dickinson: The Theme Of Death
.... using the same romantic element is just another example of how they are
similar.
Thanatopsis and Because i could not stop for Death,are somewhat
dissimilar , for instance when in Dickinsons poem when she says "We slowly drove
he knew no haste," she is referring about death taking her away and she sees
everything on this journey.william Cullen Bryant however sees Death a little
different ,like in his poem when he says " There comes a still voice yet a few
days . and thee you will see no more,"He is .....
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Education Of Ee Cummings
.... a.less free verse than one may first think
1.four and one line altering stanzas
2.lone consonants forming a sort of rhyme themselves
3.trees & agains; (whi) & sky; te, rees, & le
b.falling of a leaf
1.the whole poem's syntax
2.line and word spacing
3.IrlI
3.Images
a.comma after sky and trees
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Differences In "Ode On Grecian Urn" And "Sailing To Byzantium"
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talks about old becoming young and birds and trees. This makes you think of
spring and vegetation and animals and life. Yates uses vivified examples such as
"An Aged Man is but a patty thing, a tattered coat upon a stick." (9,10) Yates
is describing a scarecrow or what you might call death. He also talks about a
maniacal bird in lines thirty and thirty-one. This is something that isn't dying
and will go on forever. These two images life and death help insure the
complexity of these poems.
The im .....
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