Frost at Midnight

In our literature book, Literature for Composition by Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, and William E. Cain, I was introduced to Robert Frost and a number of his poems. I found Robert Frost to be an inspiring poet, because he didn’t follow the strict rules of poetry. Instead he found joy in writing poems that were different from normal poems. Reading his poems, I could really tell he focuses on the tone of voice and how he says things. He also uses a wide range of figurative language throughout this…

In “The Road Not Taken”, the author, Robert Frost, shows the idea that we are all defined by the choices we make in life, whether it’s good or bad. This poem demonstrates this idea well because the speaker was stuck between choosing two roads, and he did not know which one he should take. This relates to real life when making decisions, because you never know what is going to be at the other side when you get to the end. The concept of our decisions and how we choose to make them is illustrated…

poet Robert Frost. During the course of his life, Frost endured the deaths of his children and wife, as well as his own individual melancholies; nevertheless, Frost’s lyrical mind succeeded in expressing his anguish through his works as he resolutely travelled the “miles to go before I sleep.” Indisputably, Robert Frost’s works were influenced by his turbulent upbringing, his family tragedies, and his life in New England. Robert Frost’s turbulent upbringing deeply affected his works. Frost was…

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about a man, who was ambulating through the woods, came across two roads and found it hard to optate a path. Many people seem to think that this poem is about being different and taking the road no one else has taken. Then again, I optically discern a man. Who is highly indecisive and discombobulated, and needs to make a decision in order to move forward. We descry his indecisiveness in each stanza. Each stanza has the same pattern. He tests out a…

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a remarkable piece of poetry that displays the thoughts of Frost about the world around us and the choices we have to make on our journey of life. To better understand "The Road Not Taken" lets take a closer look into the life of Robert Frost. Frost was born March 36, 1875 in San Francisco, California. His first poem was "My Butterfly" appeared in the New York newspaper The Independence on November 8, 1894. Frost married Elinor Miriam White in 1895, who…

To be an ugly weed, or a pleasant-smelling flower? In Identity, Julio Polanco uses symbolism, setting, and conflict to show, illustrate and communicate, that being different can sometimes be better, and to be yourself and not like any other. Julio Polanco uses the literary element symbolism in this poem many times. An example of symbolism in this poem is “ I’d rather be a tall ugly weed”. He is showing symbolism by saying it as though he is the weed. This quote means that he would rather be…

In the poem “The Road Not Taken”, Robert Frost describes an individual's struggle to make a choice between what is expected and what is different. Through Frost’s use of a strict, yet sometimes wavering meter along with an ABAAB rhyme scheme, the use of imagery and metaphors, and the contradiction Frost makes in the last stanza, he is able to portray the difficulty in making decisions and the outcome of those choices. The meter of the poem would be considered to be iambic tetrameter, yet lines…

The poem that I choose was April Midnight by Arthur Symons. At 16, he moved to London and joined a group of authors know as the Rhymers’ Club and join many other famous authors. Symon’s formal poetry explores romantic love, loss, and the passage of time. April Midnight was published in his collection called Silhouettes in 1892. I chose this poem because it is so different from what we hear about nowadays. April Midnight has more of a carefree theme is tries to portray and now of days, people are…

Response: Although it was near WWII when Robert Frost wrote the poem, it’s not compatible for the reason of the poem. In the original poem in stanza three line two it phrases “The world will end for man”, but it doesn’t say anything about animals. My usumption is that he is trying to say humans will slowly just bring each other down and end the world ourselves instead of natural causes. In the outsiders the meaning is different and instead leans toward to the fact that everything good soon has…

Robert Frost is best recognized for his realism and use of nature in his poetry. While somewhat multi-layered, his poems are often laced with authentic descriptions of rural life and include his use of the predominant theme of nature. In many of his poems, Robert Frost uses images of, and in, nature to express his feelings and emotions. A forest, the changing seasons, fields, or a simple road, were common settings in Frosts poems. He uses the observance of nature in his writing largely as a…