Frost at Midnight

Road Not Taken” he explores the finality of your decisions and how they will affect you in “ages and ages hence.” In the poem Mr. Frost discusses taking a walk through a “yellow woods” as he comes across a fork in the path and deliberates over which path to take. Robert Frost utilizes Form, Imagery, and Symbolism to portray how your choices affect you forever. Robert Frost employs form to show that choices matter. He uses commas to show how taking time to think over a decision, even a second,…

Nature is one of the fascinating element in literature and it has significant role connecting major themes and characters. One great example is, ‘Snow Country’ by Yasunari Kawabata. The book consists of a major role of nature, where, principal of ‘mono no aware’ is effectively used for appreciation of nature, focus on physical senses to create the feeling of a place, and lastly, images that arouse the emotions and its delicate-like beauty. These imperative factors of his work transparent the…

Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken – Summary & Analysis The poet laureate of Vermont, Robert Lee Frost, is a Universal figure known for his sense of rural setting and using them to touch the social side of mankind. The Road Not Taken published in the year 1916 is one of his finest accomplishments as a poet. It is no embellishment if anyone claims that this particular poem is amongst the world’s most read and taught one. The four stanza poem has inspired and stirred many minds in the world. The…

In this essay I will be talking about a Modernist era writer. This writer mostly wrote poems, and his name was Robert Frost. Some of his most famous works include “Mending Wall”, “The Death of the Hired Man”, and “Birches”. All three of these poems were actually quite hard to understand and dissect, but after reading them a few times over i was able to do it. The first poem we will take a look at is “Mending Wall”, written in 1914. After that we will pick apart “The Death of a Hired Man”,…

The Mystic Forest Nature has a pristine beauty which can be displayed through many ways, such as its beautiful evergreen forests. The woods, that naturally appear in nature were used as a symbol in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale decided to take part in an inequitable act that did not purport their true character. The Puritan society in which they lived among, was a religious group who believed that Catholicism needed influenced by the Church of England. They…

Aparajita: You know, whenever one talks of North Bengal, it is Darjeeling - the snow-capped mountains, beautiful forest bungalows, tea estates that comes to one’s mind. Next is Siliguri and NJP (New Jalpaiguri Station). So whenever I told someone that my husband is from Siliguri, who was born in Naxalbari …there was no apparent excitement… just the opposite a sudden dead silence. One obviously associates Naxalbari with Naxalbari movement and Naxalism. I always wondered what it was like to be…

John Steinbeck expressed his life through his novels, novellas and poems. For instance, many of Steinbeck’s literary works take place in an area similar to his own home, Salinas Valley, California, an area full of farms, ranches, and orchards (Bloom). Also, California was an area known for attracting farm hands and migrant workers during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl eras because the soil was more nutrient-rich due to its short history of farming (Bloom). This setting transferred over to…

One of the essential motifs of medieval outlaw heroes is the motif of the Greenwood. The outlaw separates himself from society by living in the woods, enjoying a sort of Edenic paradise free from the corrupt laws of society. There, the outlaw can do what he pleases, usually accompanied by a band of merry men. Modern-day outlaw group Anonymous too has its own Greenwood. Unlike the physical Greenwoods of the medieval outlaws, however, Anonymous' Greenwood is the Internet, and, once the computer is…

Thoreau’s use of dark imagery and extended metaphors in Walden illustrates his seclusion from society to ultimately convey his journey as an individual through life. In the passage, Thoreau supports his argument with the use dark imagery to reinforce his individual preference of living in contrast to the rest of society’s. He prefers to live in his cabin in the woods, while everyone else lives in places similar to the village he visits. He explains that he “set sail from some bright village or…

techniques and styles. Although, there are many authors that have their own unique techniques to get to a deeper truth or message for the reader, Robert Frost, Tim O’brien and William Carlos Williams also have their own ways and techniques of making sense of the imperfections of human nature and life in order to get their message across. Robert Frost makes sense of the imperfections of human nature and life in to get to the deeper universal truth or message for the reader by using…