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contradiction on whether the paths were really worn the same or one was more “grassy and wanting to wear”, to his sarcasm in the line “Oh, I kept the first for another day!” which he exclaims with the most emotion of any line in the poem. In the last stanza, Frost brings the most questions when he actually hesitates and sounds as though he stutters when saying “I-- I took the one less traveled by”. The poem may have some message that requires deeper interpretation; however, it does clearly…

An analysis on “Closed Eyes” by Jayden Connelly This poem entitled “Closed Eyes” by DJ Corchin consists of four stanzas and four lines per stanza. This poem isn’t set up in any special format, in fact it’s very common in poetry. This simple format keeps the focus of the poem on the words, instead of the format it is in. Since this poem is about listening instead of seeing, I believe the author did this on purpose. He wants you to listen to the message he is conveying instead of what his words…

“romped” is a ward used to refer to playful movement, and rather than saying the poets mother was frowning, they chose a gentler way to present this image. The poet could have used many other words, but chose this word in particular. In the second stanza, the poem mentions “we romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf.” This gives us an image of them dancing recklessly and crazily. This is not entirely true. The boy and his father could just have not noticed how wild they were dancing,…

William Blake’s five-stanza poem “The fly” tries to see humanity in a fly. It narrates the poet’s act of thoughtlessness in brushing away a fly which leads to the contemplation of the act and its implications, which further reveals the essence of life as “thought is life” and the lack of it, death. As the stanzas proceed from observation，contemplation, and conclusion to revelation and liberation, I get an understanding of Blake’s philosophical system. In my essay, I will argue that Blake uses a…

Ferlinghetti’s The World is a Beautiful Place is a literary work with a sense of great sarcasm and satire. While the title suggests that the author holds a rather optimistic and positive view about society and its underlying allure, the actual poem is about the disguised charms of the world through the lens of cynicism. A quick glance at this poem is enough for readers to notice the author’s unique structural choice, and combined with a distinctive poetic pattern, alongside the use of…

negative connotation. Dickinson uses unusual grammar and punctuation throughout her poem, capitalizing odd words in “A narrow Fellow in the Grass” as a way to emphasize those specific words. She also writes a slant rhyme in every stanza, but ends in the last stanza with a true rhyme of the words “alone” and “Bone.” Throughout the poem, Emily Dickinson expresses admiration for a snake, but also hints at its sly and deceitful…

He shows this by writing a mimic to Marlowe poem. The first stanza tells us that if the world was not affected by the passage of time, the promise of pastoral love might be achievable but as the world is subject to the passage of time the promises are empty and unobtainable. The object of the poem's promises…

piece of life in the reader using the word choices and order. In Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden the entire poem seems to be discussing a father who gets up early in the morning to start a fire. The first stanza discusses the specifics of the father’s labor. The second and third stanza, however, discuss the son’s reaction and relationship to the father’s work. While this poem does discuss the relationship between the son and his father, hidden within the poem are elements of darkness…

or a rhythmic pattern, and are lyrics written in first person. However, ‘Valentine’ falls into the ‘conceit poetry’ category and WWN represents a ‘tezra rima’, composed of three stanzas with three lines each in iambic pentameter. ‘Valentine’ on the other hand follows a symmetrical structure intermingled with one line stanzas. The tone of ‘Valentine’ is candid on the verge of being confrontational while containing a bit of estrangement. And WWN shifts between gloominess and helpless misery.…

describes is two strangers meeting in multiple places such as the speaker’s house and a lane 3 miles away from his house and how they became best friend. The poem has a rhyme scheme pattern of A, A, B, B, C, moreover, it contains 6 stanzas with 5 lines in each stanza also known as quintain. Literary devices or poetry strategies such as imageries appear in the poem makes the poem a more realistic. “I met him in a lane, / Him and his cane, / about three miles from home, / Where I had chanced…