YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Birches by Robert Frost
Essays 61 - 90
and real images, illustrating his understanding of how poetics could work, how placement of words, creating imagery and also a str...
To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...
In five pages this report examines the animal characteristics humans exhibit in this poem by Robert Frost. There are no other sou...
one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth; / Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the bett...
certain meanings through word choices. For example, Frost uses the imagery of the forest to illustrate the "snags" we al...
of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...
not change in a factory and the intervals are always the same. With that in mind we look at the first stanza of Frosts poem. In...
In five pages this report analyzes the nature imagery that is featured throughout the poem 'The Bear' by Robert Frost. Two source...
In five pages the dramatic monologues featured in Frost's 'Stopping by Woods' and Browning's 'My Last Duchess' poems are compared....
Picking is merely a poem about a man picking apples and sleeping. Many have compared it to something deeper, seeing the sleep as r...
But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...
are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...
has to be cut for the stove" (Wiles). When someone dies it does not mean they were not loved, and they are not missed, just becaus...
a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...
what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...
and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses...
$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...
and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...
Robert Frost is highly regarded as a master poet. His ability to explore complex social and cultural issues by using rural everyda...
In six pages this paper discusses the dark side of social commentary and how the writers reflect their respective societies in Tom...
action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...
reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...
He probably thinks back on the choice fairly often, but theres no anger in the poem, no sense that the choice was a poor one, just...
As this suggests, this psychologically complex poem portrays a pivotal exchange between two people who are trying to cope with los...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...
narrator is speaking of fences, a fence that divides his land from his neighbors. He wonders about why people have fences, especia...
melted, and I let it fall and break" (Frost 9-13). This section of the poem clearly offers the reader the image of winter coming o...
but the presence of Winter coming on is clearly a powerful element, or theme, in the poem as the narrator illustrates how he is re...