Frost at Midnight

Robert Langill 2/1/17 Frost Paper Rough draft Period 1 Robert Frost's upbringing and life has a lot to do with his dark and witty writing. Throughout Frost's entire life, he was hurt by the loss of someone close to him, which contributed to his dark writing style. These sad and mortifying events started at a young age and continued to get worse. He was born on March 26 in 1874 in San Francisco California. When he was 11 he experienced his first loss when his dad died of tuberculosis, and his…

Stories from across vast time-periods, wildly different cultures, and distant geographical location share many common themes, plot structure, and especially character tropes. In the 20th century, legendary psychologist Carl Jung theorized that these similarities come from a collective human unconsciousness; so as a result, most characters in stories follow certain patterns, which allow us to place them into common archetypes (Edinger 1968). Knowing this I developed an interest in identifying…

Hilda Doolittle is known all over the world as H.D. H.D is the name she was published under. She was an American poet and novelist, wrote about many things. Hilda Doolittle was very interested in the ways of Greek mythology and was an inspiration imagist. Doolittle was born into the Moravian community in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was born September 10, 1886. Her father, Charles Doolittle, was professor of astronomy at Lehigh University. Doolittle’s mother, Helen (Wolle), had a very strong…

Citizen Kane opens with a quasi-subjective series of shots each creeping deeper within the Kane Estate until Charles Kane is seen on his deathbed holding a snowglobe.The original shot is a close-up of a “No Trespassing” sign. The camera, as well as the audience, bypasses the sign and crosses the fence, each shot inching closer to the light in the window until we see Kane dying on his bed. On the way there, we see a desolate estate (apart from the caged monkeys), enormous in space but empty. As…

My Comparison This paper is going to be about the comparison between two poems written by Robert Frost. The two poems are “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowing Evening.” “The Road Not Taken” was about the author who was walking in the woods one morning and there were two roads and they looked exactly the same so he just took one and the road looked like it hasn’t been walked on in awhile and because him taking that path, it changed his life. “Stopping by the Woods on a…

Signac continued to paint in a Pointillist or Divisionist style in works like "Women at the Well" (1892). He also began adding musical terms to his titles, as if to show the connection between painting and music; one example is the seascape "Evening Calm, Concarneau, Opus 220 (Allegro Maestoso)" from 1891. Signac was also committed to radical politics in pursuit of a more democratic future, and like many artists of his generation, he joined the anarchist movement. His painting "The Wreckers"…

The Road Not Taken written by Robert Frost uses a great deal of figurative language within it. Figurative language is anything from a simile to a metaphor and is greatly used within poems. One form of figurative speech is metaphors. The metaphor used in the poem is the divergent road, and the idea that the speaker must choose one of the two paths. The metaphor of the fork in the road is fascinating because it highlights the power and the misery of choice. The speaker is torn between two…

Saddling a Horse One of my favorite things to do to clear my head is to saddle up and go for a horseback ride. Before one goes on a ride, the horse must be saddled properly. First, it must be brushed. This step is important because if the loose hair is not removed, the horse may try to do it himself, flinging the rider to the ground. After the horse is brushed, a saddle pad is placed on the horse’s back. The placement of the pad is critical for the comfort of the horse; it should be centered on…

Robert Frost wrote many poems throughout his 89 years of life. Most of the poems focused on nature, as did, “Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” The speaker of the poem is alone in the woods, clearly isolated. Isolation, even when self chosen, is difficult to contend with. “Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening” focuses on isolation. Literally, the speaker of this poem has stopped in the woods, on the darkest night of the year. He observes the depth and beauty of the woods and knows that he…

Robert Frost wrote “The Road Not Taken” as a joke for a friend, the poet Edward Thomas. When they went walking together, Thomas was chronically indecisive about which road they ought to take and—in retrospect—often lamented that they should, in fact, have taken the other one. Soon after writing the poem in 1915, Frost griped to Thomas that he had read the poem to an audience of college students and that it had been “taken pretty seriously … despite doing my best to make it obvious by my manner…