Significant discoveries may be intensely meaningful for individuals. An individual’s discoveries and their process of discovering vary according to personal, cultural, historical and social contexts and values, and therefore is ascribed individual value. Texts enable an audience to understand the nature of discovery though the ramifications of emotional, physical and intellectual discoveries made by the persona, which may be transformative in a positive or negative fashion, change ones perception or have an effect on elements of the human condition. The selection of poems from the Robert Frost collection including ‘Home Burial’, ‘Fire and Ice’, ‘The tuft of flowers’ and ‘Mending Wall’, is capable of delivering and thoroughly exploring these
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An audience’s response to a discovery of a physical nature is largely dependent on how it’s represented within a text and the effect it has on future events. Such is powerfully represented in The Tuft of Flowers where work is the paradigm through which the persona formulates his questions and tries to answer the challenge implicit in the reaper’s actions, from which he can develop an understanding along with the audience as each physical discovery is made. This is captured through the metaphoric anthropomorphism of the flowers as a "leaping tongue" suggesting that the speaker’s questions may be answered through his physical discovery, with the ramifications of these discoveries further enabling the persona to understand interconnectedness. This is contrasted in The Eagleman Stag with a montage of flashbacks from the personas screen life emphasising feelings of isolation and a detachment from the surrounding environment, with the vivid imagery of the Eagleman Stag’s horns attached key objects symbolic of the looming influence of a significant physical discovery. “With each new find the sand swells to rock” –alliterative Metaphor about change. – Transformative, Physical how a physical discovery can be transformative. Composers Robert Frost and Michael Please present physical discovery as dignified, salutary, and constitutive of the human
An audience’s response to a discovery of a physical nature is largely dependent on how it’s represented within a text and the effect it has on future events. Such is powerfully represented in The Tuft of Flowers where work is the paradigm through which the persona formulates his questions and tries to answer the challenge implicit in the reaper’s actions, from which he can develop an understanding along with the audience as each physical discovery is made. This is captured through the metaphoric anthropomorphism of the flowers as a "leaping tongue" suggesting that the speaker’s questions may be answered through his physical discovery, with the ramifications of these discoveries further enabling the persona to understand interconnectedness. This is contrasted in The Eagleman Stag with a montage of flashbacks from the personas screen life emphasising feelings of isolation and a detachment from the surrounding environment, with the vivid imagery of the Eagleman Stag’s horns attached key objects symbolic of the looming influence of a significant physical discovery. “With each new find the sand swells to rock” –alliterative Metaphor about change. – Transformative, Physical how a physical discovery can be transformative. Composers Robert Frost and Michael Please present physical discovery as dignified, salutary, and constitutive of the human