Compare And Contrast The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost And Langston Hughes

Neither author comes out and says that they are talking about suicide, but it is to be presumed that it is what they mean. Heartbreak happens and sometimes it gets so bad that one may feel that they can no longer carry on with the way they are living, so they decide to take their own life. In the poem “Prisoners” some lines that allude to this are “ . . . a last token that we are not forgot, lost in this turmoil, about to be crushed out, burned or stamped out at best with sudden death. . . .

In the painting Argos Recognizes Odysseus, Theodor van Thulden uses the scene of Argo’s last moments spent with his lost owner Odysseus to show that if a bond is strong enough people will always connect, while in his poem “Argos”, Alexander Pope uses the same scene to show that being too self-adsorbed with problems can lead to neglecting those that should be cared for. The poem Argos Recognizes Odysseus by Alexander Pope demonstrates the idea that often people neglect others when caught up in their own problems. When Odysseus leaves to go to war, he does not think of his puppy, Argos. Twenty years go by and Argos is no longer a puppy, he is a stray, aged dog.

S. Eliot’s title “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ironic is that the woman he speaks of never responds to him anywhere in the poem. This makes it to be the realization of Alfred Prufrock’s loveless life. The failure and breakdown of communication from the other side tell about one aspect, which is the symbol of isolation among humans. The beginning of the poem seems like the speaker is talking to a woman whom he loves. It then turns out to be ironic and against normal expectations of the readers because there is the anticipation of something special to be spoken from the other party as well.

The first poem, “We never know,” occurs during the war. The second poem, “Facing it,” takes place many years after the war. The similarity of both poems is that they ended in the same manner. Therefore, both of the poems have a common theme. Both “Facing it” and “We never know” have the similar theme of innocent lives being taken by tragedy.

The strands in the poem actually shows that she has been told that her

He wanted the reader to focus on the story and just the story rather than focusing on him as well as his views. He wouldn’t write an autobiography in a journal, a journal is where I believe he constructed this piece, he would construct an autobiography for a newspaper or magazine and he’d keep his journal for personal

In Langston Hughes’ poem “Dreams,” he elucidates that life without dreams would be a similar existence to a pencil without paper: a life drained of purpose. Hughes posits that dreams are the crux of human life because every person needs something to aspire towards; a life void of dreams would be one void of hope. Yet, Hughes does not explore the value of dreams by lauding their beauty, but rather by lamenting

―The Gas-poker‖ is a poem that describes his mother‘s suicide and of his and his brother‘s discovery of her body. It is a story he had not told in print, a kind of poem he had not written. But he was able to make the genre over in his own manner. Gunn gives up the first person here. The experience in ―The Gas-poker‖ is first-hand, but there is little to mark the poem as a piece of autobiography, except for its placement after a short poem, a prelude to it, called ―My Mother‘s Pride‖.

“Let it be the dream it used to be,” the author says with little hope , yet it once had been an America he could believe in. The theme of this poem is individuals who feel excluded because America has failed to deliver on its promises of liberty for all. The poem’s tone is frustrated because Hughes wants everyone to be

The text tells me he is missing out on the other road because it says, “Yet knowing how way leads on to way” (Frost 57). Also it shows that it has impacted his life when it says, “I took the one less traveled, and that has made all the difference” (Frost 57). This tells me that he does not know what it is like on the other road, so he feels like he is missing out on the road he did not take. Since he only experienced one road, it has made a difference in his

Poem #1 : 1. Does it use figurative language? If so, what kind? There is figurative language in this poem. The whole poem is an extended metaphor for decision making.

Poetry, perhaps more than other genre of writing, often sparks controversy and discussion. Authors Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes are two authors in American Literature whose poetry is both debated and praised by critics. "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman and "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes have sparked many discussions on their controversial content. Walt Whitman was the first of the two authors to write, followed by Langston Hughes who was influenced by Whitman's work. While Whitman's poem, "I Hear America Singing" reflects the happiness of the American people, the poem written by Hughes takes a different approach.

branching off of the trees that are darker in color. Frost uses juxtaposition to show the contrast of the darker trees amongst the white bark. The bark of birch trees can vary in color, white to darker ones such as black. Although the ones he specifically describes are the darker birches, which helps develop the connection to stressful times. The birches being that darker color shows the imagery of bad times and now in this line he puts forth a possible hypothesis claiming that a boy has been swinging on them.