Dramatic dialogue "Home Burial" written by Robert Frost in 1914 depicts a women and a man involved in a heated verbal confrontation that discovers the distance between them and their inability to be on common ground. Setting wise it is place on a staircase, the woman, named Amy on the top and the man on the bottom. Personification is shown with the use of Amy undoing her 'doubtful step' suggests that she is setting the distance between them literally. Amy was upset about the grave of her dead baby …show more content…
The power of ambition is a central theme of this playwright as it represents how the characters of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s ambition for power drives them to sheer madness. Lady Macbeth’s characterisation is conveyed to be manipulative of Macbeth and it is Lady’s fatal flaw in her character for the ambition for power to get to her head, and thus leading herself and Macbeth into a tragic downfall which was commonly used by Shakespeare. The wheel of destiny is an important figure in this playwright as it determines the fortune of the characters, when the wheel is turned the characters are pushed up into a spur of the moment power for ambition, the wheel is turned again and thus the characters are facing the consequences of this, then finally the wheel is fully rotated and the characters have declined into their true downfall consequently by themselves. The use of iambic pentameter by Shakespeare with 10 syllables per line in Act 5 part 1, sets the overall tone of the poem. Symbolism is used in numerous accounts: the daggers used to kill Duncan were a symbol of death, the blood being metaphorically stained to the hands of Lady Macbeth as she yelled “Out damned Spot”, the knocking sounds heard were a symbol of nerve and regret and finally the owl which symbolises wisdom and death in the night. Macbeth states “I had most …show more content…
In "Fire and Ice” Robert Frost as the persona states as if he is not naïve and has experienced two relationships with “ice” and “fire”. An unconventional setting in this poem is to be considered as the concept of the “Apocalypse” which I very unusual but it seems to suit the theme of relationships perfectly. Some techniques used to comment on the discovery of the destructive nature of relationships is the Anecdotal of “Some say” and Dispassionate tone in the word "suffice" gives the last line of disturbing finality to the poem which relates to the apocalyptic setting created throughout the poem of two relationships that have been perhaps destroyed by humanistic tragic flaws of desire and