Robert C. Merton

"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…

the perception of materialistic and shallow love In Victorian society. Additionally the repetition of “love’s sake that evermore”, pushes the argument and links in with the symbolisation of eternal and timeless love. In Elizabeth’s personal context, Robert Browning doesn’t fall for her physical appearance, but her writings clearly symbolising the argument. Therefore the value of time in the Victorian Era in the perspective of Elizabeth Browning is juxtaposed against the Great Gatsby. Showcasing…

hot beach with your injured leg tied up with a rag. The warm salt water laps at your feet as you try to get out the last of the water from a coconut. This is how life was for the newcomer from Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” and Chuck Noland from Robert Zemeckis’s Cast Away. They are both in very different situations, and both of their survival skills are put to the test. The newcomer is an arrogant and overconfident traveler who is trying to go out into the wilderness even though the…

my head. Of course there are some exceptions, such as Walt Disney’s film Johnny Tremain, directed by Robert Stevenson. It is difficult for a director to meet an audience’s expectation when creating a book-based movie, while also inputting his own take on the story. Though it is important to add some originality to a storyline, it is equally as important to stay true to the story itself. Robert Stevenson made decisions that weekend the plot by removing important characters, changing key…

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…

Robert Brown Biology is a very broad topic and many scientists have contributed to the biology world. In this paper I will be talking about one of those people who had a major contribution to the science community. “Robert Brown was born on December 21, 1773 in Montrose Scotland. He died on June 10, 1858 at the age of 84 in London England” (Britannica 1). Robert Brown most recognized by how he described the “cell nuclei and the continuous motion of minute particles in solution, which came to…

Reading the article “What Happened and Why?” by Patrick Rael, I personally thought that he was trying to educate us readers about how to write like a historian. However, the way he chose to convey the information was unclear and confusing. When I started to read the article I found it very difficult to connect. His thesis is a clear statement in the beginning, but his choice of words and grammar is hard to, as a reader, understand. Despite this, I was able to get useful information from his…

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…