People have a different type of lifestyle, personality, thoughts, careers, and choices, but in the world only a few people, who as similar thoughts, ideas, and passion for writing such as Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. This both poets are expressing their emotions and feelings thoughts writing poems. In this paper I will compare two poems by Dickinson “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark,” and “A Bird came down the Walk” and two poems by Frost, “Acquainted with the Night,” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” the history of the author’s and their similarities and differences. Background information about, Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost life history. Dickinson was born in 1830, Amherst, MA, in USA (“Dickinson”). Frost was born in San
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Both authors lived in same time periods but not as long as Frost lived. Dickinson was born before Frost, and after eighteen years Frost was born. “Dickinson was educated at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary”, (“Dickinson”). Frost was graduated from high school in Lawrence, MA in 1892 then he attended Dartmouth College, but he failed the semester, so worked in the textile mill, later he joined Harvard (1897-1899) (“Frost”). Dickinson was not married (Tredell). She was independence woman. Frost was married to Elinor white and he had four children (Hart). Frost was lived in London with his family (Hart). Dickinson loss her childhood friends when Dickinson was fourteen-year-old. Her friend name was Sophia Holland (Tredell). Frost loss his wife and all of his children (“Frost”). Also, when he was a small boy, her sister; Jeanie Florence had a nervous breakdown, and physical ailments at a small age …show more content…
In the “A Bird came down the Walk,” by Dickinson, it about a bird that came down from the tree and eats the dew from the ground but later bird realized that he/she did mistake eating the dew. Also, the bird gets scared because he/she feels something is not right. This poem is about enjoying and frightened. In the “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” by Robert Frost, it about a person was traveling by horse in a heavy snowy weather through the woods. A speaker like the view of the woods in snow, he/she wants to stay in wood to view the snow falling. But the speaker has to go on the journey because he/she made promise to his/her loved one to come back at night. Also, this poem is about darkest, beautiful view, and loneliness. Both poem connection with each other because of the same theme nature, such as bird, woods, and snow represent
Both authors lived in same time periods but not as long as Frost lived. Dickinson was born before Frost, and after eighteen years Frost was born. “Dickinson was educated at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary”, (“Dickinson”). Frost was graduated from high school in Lawrence, MA in 1892 then he attended Dartmouth College, but he failed the semester, so worked in the textile mill, later he joined Harvard (1897-1899) (“Frost”). Dickinson was not married (Tredell). She was independence woman. Frost was married to Elinor white and he had four children (Hart). Frost was lived in London with his family (Hart). Dickinson loss her childhood friends when Dickinson was fourteen-year-old. Her friend name was Sophia Holland (Tredell). Frost loss his wife and all of his children (“Frost”). Also, when he was a small boy, her sister; Jeanie Florence had a nervous breakdown, and physical ailments at a small age …show more content…
In the “A Bird came down the Walk,” by Dickinson, it about a bird that came down from the tree and eats the dew from the ground but later bird realized that he/she did mistake eating the dew. Also, the bird gets scared because he/she feels something is not right. This poem is about enjoying and frightened. In the “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” by Robert Frost, it about a person was traveling by horse in a heavy snowy weather through the woods. A speaker like the view of the woods in snow, he/she wants to stay in wood to view the snow falling. But the speaker has to go on the journey because he/she made promise to his/her loved one to come back at night. Also, this poem is about darkest, beautiful view, and loneliness. Both poem connection with each other because of the same theme nature, such as bird, woods, and snow represent