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“The night draws down. The baby has a cold. Here, take this blanket, it’s wool. It was my mother’s blanket―take it for the baby. This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning―from ‘I’ to ‘we’” (152). This statement used by Steinbeck marks the transition from “I” to “we” in the novel, where people stop thinking about just themselves and start thinking about others in the exact same situation as them. They begin to learn that they’re not the only ones struggling to find jobs, earn money, and…

While reading novels and books, the reader's emotions will be set on a rollercoaster. If you had to illustrate the feelings you get while reading “On the Lake” by Olaf Olafsson, you would probably be illustrating a frozen ice pond, with you walking on the slippery surface. Suddenly you notice that the surface is cracking with every single step you take. Step after step the cracks become more and more pronounced, and you can only think of two things. First thing being reaching safety, while the…

The Road to Sampo directed by Lee Man-hee tells the story of 3 wandering strangers who find themselves traveling together through the snowy mountains in search of a new shot at life. On the surface, this film seems like a lighthearted journey about unexpected friendship and love. But if we look deeper, we learn about the human condition and how each character had their own personal experience that shaped them over time. As the film progresses we are able to observe how their dark pasts left…

Take a slow, deep breath, winter is here. There is a particular stillness that characterizes winter and with it comes a subtle invitation to embrace a long, dark, season of slumber. This is the time to rest, reflect, hold space, vision, and hibernate. But unfortunately, the calm, peaceful nature of winter can also leave us feeling stagnant or un-inspired. Hibernating isn’t going to burn any calories and that’s why I write this article to make you feel inspired to stay healthy and take good care…

speaker is a conflicted man and is very secretive, doesn’t give away much, very mysterious. What the reader does know is that he is facing a very momentous decision as symbolized by the two diverging roads ahead of him. Whether this is moving to a new home, or the text book mid-life crisis he is seeing it everywhere, even in nature. The speaker loves nature, obviously because he is wondering aimlessly in the woods. He is impulsive, because even though he contemplates the other road for a while,…

In this poem by Robert Frost, Frost uses the idea of a desert to represent the loneliness and isolation that he felt. Typically, when people think of a desert, they think of a dry, hot place, however the “desert” place Frost talks about has “snow falling” which meant that it was a cold place, not a typical “desert.” (line 1). The selected poem has a first person narrator, Frost, who is telling about the feelings of darkness, loneliness, and isolation that he is experiencing/feeling. For example,…

Billy Collins’ Snow Day, describes a snow blizzard as comedic irony. He uses words and phrases that show sarcasm and riveting diction. Throughout this poem, Collins expresses deep thought about the weather. He acknowledges that everything in the town is covered in snow which results in store and school closure, which provides him with a sense of joy and adventure. In Snow Day, Collins characterizes the man versus nature conflict through the use of similes, extended metaphors, and alliteration.…

members, dealt with a great deal of grief throughout his life, and coped by writing poetry. Robert Frost’s personal experiences and people around him influenced his poetry. Robert Frost, born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California, grew up in New England as a part of a farm family. Not in line with his father being a farmer, Frost decided to take a more educational path on life, earning valedictorian of his high school class. Despite being a high school perfectionist, Frost quickly…

Robert Frost was a well-known American poet. In Frost’s poem “Range Finding”, he uses rich and vivid language in order to paint mental images in readers’ minds. Additionally, Frost utilizes diction, rhyme, and form in a way that lets the poem flow. “Range Finding” has a relatively straightforward structure. It is laid out in the form of a sonnet. It contains fourteen lines of iambic pentameter that are split into two stanzas. The first stanza is an octave consisting of eight lines, and its rhyme…

Photographed in the winter of 1940 by Marion Walcott, “Snowy Night” was taken in the center of town in Woodstock, Vermont. The center of town is well-lit by the soft light emitted from the street lamps; displaying the lack of people out on this “Snowy Night.” While it is unable to definitively deduce from the snow-covered cars that line the block, the lack of people is certainly aided by the cold temperatures and closed businesses. Topic sentence. The first thing that catches one’s eye in this…