Frost was extremely emphatic on the simplicity of this poem, both in meaning and format. The poem can be seen to be about many things, but without argument one can say that it is about someone who has come to a fork in the road. This can be seen in the first two lines. The speaker acknowledges that he “could not travel both” as he attempts to peer down the road as far as possible to see what it will be like but it disappears in the horizon “where it bent in the undergrowth”(line 5). The speaker considers each road and comes to the conclusion that “the passing there/had worn them really out the same” (line 9/10).
Most people believe that "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost was written to inspire people to not follow the majority and to branch out and be different. However, the poem was actually written to gently tease one of Frost's good friends, Edward Thomas. Frost and Thomas would take walks in the woods together, and Thomas would take Frost down one path and later regret not choosing a different path. This could possibly lead someone to believe that Frost is actually ridiculing the action of regretting decisions. Considering this pert nit background information, the poem's meaning could be quite contrary to popular belief.
These two poems, in my belief, are two of the most metaphoric & symbolic poems ever written which use a good deal of imagery to help us understand what the poets are trying to tell us. Although their structures differ, they both give us the same message between the lines. Herbert and Frost use similar themes because their sole purpose is to help us realize what we did in our past, what we’re doing now, and how to plan our near future. Both poems use metaphors in a beautiful way. In Frost’s poem, for example, the road not taken is that road which most people are afraid to walk….the hard road.
He doesn’t want to go to the doctors because he wants to maintain dignity through his dead body by being buried with both hands. I enjoy this poem also because it doesn’t have a normal rhyme scheme, the fact is that it doesn’t makes the little rhymes it does have that more meaningful and important. “Oh No,” by Robert Creeley is also a poem about death, but unlike Frost’s poem, his tone isn’t as depressive and erie, and more accepting. This has a simply rhyme scheme, its ABCB CCEE. Also unlike Frost’s the meaning of this poem is less in your face, so to speak, and more to think about and deep, with some hints of a darker undertone.
Summary of Looking at the Worst: Wallace Steven’s The Rock Helen Vendler in the text: Looking at the Worst: Wallace Steven’s The Rock, considers how the three premises, which Stevens examined in his late work, affected him on an emotional level, and how they changed his creative structure and style. In the first premise Stevens ponders stasis as a final state of reality, which can be seen in the poem The Plain Sense of Things. From a sunny start, it slowly changes toward the final stasis, but it is not something unknown. In the poem Stevens is simply returning to the state of things that was before. Stevens’s style has changed from his earlier poems, from using adjectives to intensify nouns to nondescript facts and numerous repetitions which symbolize the return to the former stasis.
Some feel that the sigh near the end is a sigh of relief because choosing the path less taken made all the difference in a positive way. Others argue that the sigh was that of disappointment. Looking further into the tone and the use of yellow, a color often associated with hope and happiness, I feel that the theme is a positive, encouraging one. When asked about the writing of the poem and what the sigh meant, Frost stayed true to personal interoperation as he would not answer one way or another. With this poem, one must come to the two paths and decide to take the road everyone else has taken, or to take the path that has been less traveled.
September 9, 2012 The two poems When I Have Fears by John Keats and Mezzo Cammin by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow have many differences and similarities in there poetic techniques and situations. Keats and Longfellow’s poems have an abundance of diversity which makes each one unique. However, both reveal that the subject is about sadness and death. In Longfellow’s piece, he writes that there wasn’t much to blame that kept him from what he would’ve wanted to accomplish in his early life. It feels as if this middle-aged poet did have a sorrow for something important that he might have lost.
‘Spring’s here, Winter’s not gone’ – Discuss ways in whichThomas presents uncertainty in ‘But these things also’ Uncertainty is a a huge theme that runs throughout the entirity of Thomas’ poetry, particularly in the poem ‘But these things also’. He does this by using a variaty of techniques suchas his choice of imagery, language and also the lack of rhyme. Thomas used this lack of a rhyme scheme to show the reader that he felt poetry shouldn’t be twisted to fit a certain mould. Thomas often used nature as a topic for his poems, because as a poet he felt he could relate to the uncertainty of it, and this becomes clear to the reader within ‘But these things also’. Immediately as a reader we are thrown into the theme of uncertainty due to the ambigious title.
The literal subject matter of this poem seems obvious and clear, at least on the surface. The following are some of the literal meanings that, for simplicity's sake, I've listed in the order they appear line-by-line. I use a masculine pronoun when referring to the speaker because it feels to me that the speaker is a man. * The speaker takes long walks alone late at night. * His walks have also been in the rain.
Symbolism in “The Cask of Amontillado” The symbolism throughout Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” constantly pair similar ideas that contradict each other. The characters are unaware of the symbolic details in conversations or events that occur throughout the story. The reader may find him/her self siding with Montresor since we have all been insulted at one time or another, but that doesn’t constitute revenge to the point of killing a person. Literature containing symbolism can be interpreted or viewed differently by the reader. Poe put much effort and thought into the details of his literature, he painted a descriptive picture for the reader matter how dark and dreary.