Robert Graysmith

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…

Robert Frost is best recognized for his realism and use of nature in his poetry. While somewhat multi-layered, his poems are often laced with authentic descriptions of rural life and include his use of the predominant theme of nature. In many of his poems, Robert Frost uses images of, and in, nature to express his feelings and emotions. A forest, the changing seasons, fields, or a simple road, were common settings in Frosts poems. He uses the observance of nature in his writing largely as a…

Introduction “We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow.” Led Zeppelin’s fans roar as Robert Plant starts to sing one of the crowd’s favorite songs, “Immigrant song”. Led Zeppelin became one of the most globally popular British bands of their era who triumphed through highs and lows in the music industry. Led Zeppelin has been around since the late 1960s, survived many tragedies, and have received many awards. Led Zeppelin has had many musical…

Life is full of love and hate. Love is widely considered the beautiful side of life, while hate is thought of as the ugly side. With this popular view on love, people might not realize the evil it can imbed in those who experience it. Robert Browning’s poems “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” both depict how the speakers commit terrible acts when their possessive and obsessive love towards their women becomes too strong. The speakers of the poems both kill their lovers as they share a…

Ever since it was published in 1974, Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War has been protested for years. Many teachers and parents believe that its portrayal of life and violence make the book too graphic for students. The continuous fight for control and power yield multiple conflicts between characters. The characters attitude between one another depict the overall moral of this book. I believe the novel should not be banned because readers should have the choice of reading the book or not. This…

Hampshire newspaper, on March 31, 1901, in which a boy suffers a serious accident to his hand.” Robert Frost was a successful poet who used many elements of his personal life in his writing. He took inspiration from his hometown, local news-stories, and local farmers. Robert’s past experiences impacted and influenced his writing. Robert Frost took inspiration from his surroundings in his work. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, but was raised in New England. New England would become the…

Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” can be used as a tool to lead different people with different backgrounds to Jesus. In the poem “The Road Not Taken” is about a person who comes a pound two paths in the woods. He or she becomes faced with a decision of whether to choose one or the other. He goes on to describe one of the paths. He describes one as being as being better. He says, “Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim” (Frost, The Road Not Taken). He…