Arterial road

POETIC ANALYSIS OF “Out, Out-” BY ROBERT FROST In Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out-” Frost uses literary devices to portray the fact that life should be valued. The boy that Robert Frost creates is a hard worker. The boy tries to do the best he can, but because of his age and lack of experience, he is unskilled. His unskilled hands are only trained for work that leads to his painful death. Frost mimics the story of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth through the boy, and the specific way he dies. The…

In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the story follows the struggle of a father and his son to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where inhumanity, despair, and violence in a loveless world do not seem to save much room for peace and triumph. However, despite the absence of empathy and basic humanity, McCarthy does somehow achieve to highlight some pleasant themes all over the story: the themes of morality, hope, and love that are embodied through the father and son's journey on the road. One of…

I Am Tourist The poem “ I Am Tourist” addresses the concept of a tourist during a holiday. This poem is read to be more personal to the reader as it is written in first person and we can all personally relate to this poem through past experiences as we have all either encountered a tourist of we have ventured on holiday as a tourist ourselves. In order to portray this effect in the poem, Our author has clearly investigated literary devices such as humoristic devices but also creating imagery of…

Her throat felt like one big lump, and her eyeballs had started sweating. Her vision, blurry, and unclear. As soon as her eyes drifted away from the road, she banged into a colossal rock lying in the middle of the tiny trail. She kept on moving, Sarah didn’t want to be caught by Jill again. Eventually, after a long, painful trip home, she arrived at her house, weird noises started coming up her throat…

In the post-apocalyptic novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, McCarthy outlines a gray desolate story about and man and his son travelling a road riddled with macabre obstacles to reach the Southern Coast. The man and the boy begin travelling because it will soon be winter, and winter will be especially inclement, the world is covered in ash, which creates a dark blanket over the Earth. For, before the birth of the boy a never identified catastrophe ravaged the earth with fire, leaving few…

“One does not use poetry for its major purposes, as a means to organize oneself and the world, until one’s world somehow gets out of hand.” This was Richard Wilbur’s response when someone asked him about fighting in World War II and how it changed him. Richard Wilbur is a famous modern day poet who won two Pulitzer Prizes for two of his collections of poems. He was the second poet laureate of the United States. Richard Wilbur fought as a combat soldier in World War II which changed his outlook…

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, takes place in a post apocalyptic world that is dark and covered by ash. The book follows a man and his son as they try to survive with little supply and each other. Throughout the book, the man and the boy are faced with many challenges. A frequent challenge being the people they encounter, which are often the bad guys. The bad guys are people that have lost all ties with the concept of society and are the most gruesome representation of survivors. The Road puts…

It is impossible to write anything new. Everything has already been done, already been said, but writers take inspiration where they can get it, read what other people have written, and this encourages them to write something of their own. They add to the ongoing conversation. Sometimes, experimentation with writing happens as writers feel the need to, maybe not say something completely new, but to say it in an innovative way. This is how new genres, such as American fabulism, are born, coming…

Immigrants face many problems when they are in a place so different to what used to be their home, where they grew up. Many of them do not have English and that is a challenge that most face. English being your second language could cause many troubles from finding a job to purchasing your weekly shop. Many have to take low paid jobs due to the language barrier. A way in which this problem could be overcome is by immigrants taking ESL (English as a Second Language) classes. The problem with that…

In The Road, Cormac McCarthy portrays the story of a father and son duo surviving in a post-apocalyptic world that has been devastated by an unknown catastrophic event. The father and son’s journey southward towards the coast is horrific and harsh encompassed by external obstacles and internal conflict of malnutrition, thievery, and cannibalism. The two depend on each other to maintain their sanity and morality as they forge on in the destitute setting of the road. Although the young boy is born…