Musical form

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…

As I began flipping through the pages of The Arrival I noticed it was a wordless picturebook and purely relies on the images to tell the story. My initial reaction was the use of color the author chose. As you open the book up to the first page you notice nine individual frames of possessions that you would see in a home along with a family picture and if you turn to the next page a bigger image is shown on the right of the mom and dad. For example, we are never told directly the status of the…

Knowing the six most common types of musical devices in poetry will help you get a better understanding for the techniques used in literature. These devices are considered musical because they use similar sounds to link each other. Learning about these devices will make you a more informed reader of poetry. Rhyme Rhyme is a musical device that uses vowel sounds that rhyme through similar construction. To qualify as a rhyme, the vowel sounds and all of the sounds that come after the vowel…

In the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost he talks about life and he uses plants as a analogy. In line one, he talks about how nature's first green is gold and it also means that when a baby is born it's important. In line three it talks about it again and shows repetition. In line four Robert talks about how being young and a plant’s flower doesn’t last forever. All of the analogies in the poem remind the reader that life is short. In the poem “nothing gold can stay” robert uses…

In the poem, “We Real Cool” the author portrays the themes of identity and reckless abandonment in a simplistic writing form. In the first line the author writes “we real cool”, which helps to form the theme of identity. Identity is defined as “the fact of being who or what a person or thing is”, and by using the personal pronoun “we” the speaker is showing that they identify with this said group. This is significant because one can surround themselves with a group of individuals, however this…

Do you know how does it feel when you lost your sight? In the two poems “ We Accustomed To The Dark,” and “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” The speakers lost their sight and the feeling of sorrowful. The word darkness in the poem is a figurative language(Metaphor) in the poem. Which means in the poem is that something is imprecise or lost of direction. But, the speaker reacted differently to what they lost. The speaker also shows the importance of our vision. In “We Grow Accustomed To The Dark,”…

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe and Remember by Christina Rossetti share many similarities and differences. More specifically, the structure of these two poems can be compared and contrasted when looking at the rhyme scheme, word choice, and repetition. By doing so, the meaning of each poem is enhanced. To start off, both poems have a rhyme scheme, but each poem’s is unique. For example, Annabel Lee has the rhyme scheme: A,B,A,B,C,B, for the first stanza. Then, as the poem progresses, every…

As a teenager in highschool, I hear a lot of slang. Just the other day in Journalism, a few classmates of mine were talking of a new movie that just came out. One classmate was describing a scene in the movie in which the main character jumps into view while an epic explosion can be seen in the background. The other classmate responded with, “That’s epic!” Obviously I knew what my classmate meant when he responded with “that’s epic,” but I couldn’t help but think how the word ‘epic’ became to be…

The three poets, Longfellow, Dickinson, and Whitman, were all Romantic writers. During their time, they main focused on creativity, impossibility, nature, beauty, individualism, and the common man. Despite the three writers having different subjects for their poems and have their own unique style, they also shared similarities within their writings. Between the three writers, they shared similarities such as their poetic structure, literary devices, and mood as well. The first two writers,…

Meaningless Death Robert Frost’s formidable poem “Out, Out,” is written about a young boy wanting to endeavor in the performance of a grown man’s work cutting wood with his family, but later unfortunately severs off his own hand by accident with a buzz saw, which eventually leads to his unsmiling yet unceremonious death. In “Out, Out,” Robert Frost’s employ of imagery, words, and phrases to give expression aid the reader to feel a series of different emotions. Although he has an understated…