Frost at Midnight

pronoun “I”, providing more description than usual. Moreover we come to know about the inner thoughts and opinions of the character through his speech. Here, in these lines an extensive description of the surrounding is provided as “brown fog of winter dawn”, “crowd flowed over London Bridge”, “Sighs”, “fixed his eyes before his feet”. All these point toward the fact that the narrator has himself observed his surrounding keenly. Additionally, in this part of poem First person narration is used…

This Land Is Your Land is a poem written by Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie in February of 1940; in April of 1944 it was eventually set to music and turned into a song. On the first reading of this poem, especially when one takes into account the song that was learned in childhood, it has a very patriotic feel to it, “This land is your land this land is my land / this land was made for you and me” (Guthrie 1:1, 1:4). Upon closer inspection, when the last three stanzas of the poem are taken into…

Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” consists of three essential elements that contribute in making this poem phenomenal. These elements include a theme, personification, and tone. Poets should include an impeccable theme to portray the underlying message of the poem. The use of personification aids the reader to paint a vivid description of an object in the reader’s mind. Tone is the third critical element and it portrays the poet’s attitude throughout the poem, which ultimately plays a role in…

by Robert Frost the speaker tells of a boy who uses a saw to cut stove length sticks of wood for a living. The boy ran his hand into a saw and instead of taking precautions to save his life he demanded that his hand be saved. As a result of these demands the boy not only loses his hand but also dies. Frost uses key imagery, foreshadowing, diction, and irony, to show that in certain circumstances holding onto something can cause more harm than letting go. The key images created by Frost show…

“The Road Not Taken” is by Robert Frost. It is about choosing between two different roads in the wood. The narrator chooses one road and thinks that he can go through the second one in another day. This poem is a combination of nature and human life. The narrator is not talking about two roads in the forest. He is talking about two paths in life, and how important it is to make the right decision at the right time. Life is a path, and a choice taken. The narrator describes the path of life as a…

ABSTRACT Robert frost is one of the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious American poets of 20th century. He won four Pulitzer prizes During his life time and gained lot of popularity not only in England but in whole Europe. His Poetry dealt with elements of nature personal and social aspect of human beings. His themes are Very inspirational, innovative and call of his age. The aim of this paper is to analyze Robert Frost’s poem “The Road not taken” from the viewpoint of stylistic analysis.…

Robert Frost strongly emphasises nature’s power and strength in its original state compared to mankind’s weakness in his 3 main poems: “Acquainted with the Night”, “Birches”, and “Desert Places”. This contrast between nature and humanity is mostly highlighted in “Desert Places”, when the narrator describes a scenic view by saying “And the ground almost covered smooth in snow, but a few weeds and stubble showing last”. Frost demonstrates the existence of mankind in nature, through the presence…

This poem, along with two others which looked in the same issue, marked the first time Frost printed his writing in The Atlantic. But it was not the first time he’d tried; that endeavour, as Peter Davison recalled had happened three years earlier in 1912, before Robert Frost made his famous leap to “live under thatch” in England, where he would develop known as a poet, he sent some of his poems to Ellery Sedgwick, the editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and in due course established a personal reply…

Robert Lee Frost is a well-known American poet who has won a congressional medal of honor and over 40 honorary degrees, all without ever finishing college. Robert’s career kicked off when he decided to live in England for a while. His love for England inspired Robert to publish, “A Boy’s Will” and “North Boston”. By the time Robert came back to America, he was considered, “1920’s most celebrated poet in America” and to this day, his poems are still being taught in high schools and colleges…

Space, Place, and Landscape Nineteenth century Russian literature is grounded in its attention to the national manifestations of life and nature. These environmental and personal references are ultimately further emphasized because of their prevalence in metaphors, intrusive narrators, events, and the intricate psyche of characters. Upon close explorations of the local landscapes within these visual texts, there is a conjunction of themes and perception, as these environments shape the events…