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Obviously there is another side to Thoreau with which "Birches" does not strife. A Thoreau more suitable to Frost shows up in a Journal passage six months before the striking ice tempest of December 31, 1852. He expresses: "Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place, for instance. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no…

should’ do to ‘wise men’ , ‘good men’, ‘wild men’ and ‘grave men.’ However, towards the end of the poem, it changes into second person and Thomas starts to address his own father by saying ‘And you, my father.’ Using second person within the final stanza creates a deeper effect on the reader and becomes more personal as Thomas is speaking about his own father. Similarly, although the narrator of the poem isn’t…

is appreciative and peaceful. The poem contains stanzas, imagery, comparison but…

The poems “Fog” by Carl Sandburg and “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth share both similarities and differences. One similarity that both poems share are symbols. In Sandburg’s poem, the title “Fog” is a symbol within itself. The title hovers over the poem just like fog does in nature. That cat mentioned at the beginning of the poem symbolizes how the fog approaches “on little cat feet” and then sits on “silent haunches” before “mov[ing] on” (Sandburg 899). The fog moves in the…

Sad Silence In Li-Young Lee’s poem “A Story” he shows the relationship of a father and his son as the boy is coming of age. He shows the complex relationship between a son and his father through the use of Alternating viewpoints, structure design, and a remorseful tone. Through the use of these literary devices he is able to develop the father’s deep affection and worry for his young son. Throughout the poem “A Story” the speaker employs alternating viewpoints between the present and future.…

The poem’s stanza form is the most widely used form and most versatile unit in American poetry, the quatrain. A quatrain is a four-lined stanza with lines of similar length and a set rhyme scheme. In this case, each line of the poem contains eight syllables and contains a rhyme scheme of AABA, BBCB, CCDC, DDDD. As for the meter…

Time took those fun things away from him. The speaker of the poem is a man, looking back on his youthful life, remembering all the details he did not care about when he was a child. The setting of this poem is on a farm with a beautiful countryside. Stanza one talks about how the speaker, a boy, who is young and carefree at one point and describes all of these beautiful things that could relate to happiness. Line one explains to the audience that the speaker was a young and carefree boy. Line…

speaking of war times. Reed discusses the effects of military or war times of the young men who desire to enjoy their lives. Reed uses the weapon to represent the symbolism of getting to know the weapon before being able to use it. In the first stanza Reed recaps the weeks’ training and even gives a brief insight on what the rest of the week will hold. However, he continues to remind the soldiers or recruits the other days were in the past or in the future and tries to get them to…

noticeable aspect of the poem is the use of dashes in work. The dashes create an unusual syntax in the poem. There is a total of fifteen total dashes in the poem, including in the title. There are a total of three stanzas that make up this intriguing and thoughtful poem. The first stanza starts out with the title of the poem, leading into what makes up a bird. Dickinson states, “Hope is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul—” (753). She starts out the poem putting a lot of…

object or person. Furthermore, she writes about an idea being held close to the heart. This stanza is closer to symbolism than any other example shown. The feeling the heart holds and the meaning the idea embodies, though not explained can still be interpreted to be close enough to be considered one and the same. It gives the reader room to imagine or reminisce on a moment similar to the feeling the stanza gives. The word famous is personified in the form of the speakers ambitions. She is…