Robert Gates

The human race is infamous for putting up barriers. Society began to master the art of shutting people out centuries ago, both physically and mentally. Yet no person truly enjoys being on his or her own. This conflicting idea/image at the core of Robert Frost’s 1914 poem, “Mending Wall,” is striking: two neighbors come together to build a barrier between them yet also display a sense of respect and neighborliness towards one another. They make this wall out of custom, out of habit. This pattern…

Reality. The author we used to look at this theme was Robert Nozick and he wrote The Experience Machine. Nozick's stance on Fantasy vs. Reality is that there is a difference between having experiences and actually doing something. He feels like just having experiences doesn't do anything for the world where…

decide what direction to take. However, unlike roads, life does not provide a navigational system that directs someone to their desired destination. One must make decisions and rely upon those choices made to get them to their preferred destination. Robert Frost in his famous poem “The Road Not Taken” talks about a man who comes upon one of life’s stop signs and he must decide what road will lead him to his anticipated future. When analyzing Frost’s work, various interpreters deduce the theme of…

OF MICE AND MEN Of Mice and Men is a novella, written by John Steinbeck, following two displaced workers; George Milton and Lennie Small who seek opportunities during The Great Depression. Steinbeck uses a variety of conventions, language and stylistic features throughout Of Mice and Men to convey an array of ideas. These techniques are evident when conveying the element of inevitability in regards to the dream. Powerlessness, conveyed by characterisation, the lack of knowledge and impairment…

(The forest, where unnatural things have supposedly been happening) At the edge of the forest Abigail has called on John Proctor to come and meet with her. It is late at night and John should be home, but for some reason he has came to the forest. He asks Abigail why he has come and she says she has called for him. She looks at him in an enchanting way. Anything that Abigail says Proctor does. Abigail is trying to make John Proctor join her on the dark side. Abigail (Looking at John…

This essay argues towards the conclusion that Robert Nozick’s ‘experience machine’ thought experiment does not successfully challenge hedonism as a theory of rational action. It will first explore the concept of hedonism and what would be required to mount a successful challenge to it. It will then outline the ‘experience machine’ thought experiment and assess the conclusions Nozick draws. Referring to epistemological objections raised by Woolard and Hewitt alongside methodological objections…

The primary imagery in “The Snow-Storm” is how the snow interacts with everything it touches. In the beginning of the poem it begins with a light tone, explaining how the snow covers everything with light words such as “hides”, and “veils.” It creates the imagine of the snow acting almost like a blanket that lays upon everything. Near the end of the first stanza the tone changes after the word “tumultuous” is used, creating the image of a disorderly snow storm. “Fills up the farmer's lane from…

William Butler Yates insists in the poem that he is miserable in the city lights. He states many facts that give the reader reasons to believe that the city is not for him. The poem gives the reader a visual of the city and the country where he is trying to get. He wants us to see the country as a place of happiness and somewhere he can live out the rest of his life. Yates uses symbols of lake water, crickets singing, and the thought of being trapped in the city wanting to go back to the…

Robert Browning was a genius when it came to his poetry, many thought him brilliant, yet they were also skeptical of his work because of how dark and disturbing some found it to be. Browning’s work was found to earry and sketchy by many because the treatment of women in multiple of his poems. Some of these poems include “My Last Duchess,” “Life in a Love,” and “Porphyria’s Lover.” Browning’s “My Last Duchess” is found disturbing because of the finale statements made by the speaker and even more…

there to be a positive outcome. Robert Frost shows how choices could change our lifestyle with the poems created by him. In Robert Frost poetry, Robert Frost uses multiple literary devices to describe that life has multiple outcomes in order to illustrate that people have responsibility for choices and actions made. Metaphors are descriptively seen throughout the many poems written by Frost to help show the different paths of life that could be taken. In Robert Frost's poem “The…