Comparing 'And Acquainted With The Night'

My first impression of Hecht’s poem was halfhearted. I didn’t quite grasp what her boldness was for, at first, she sounded almost envious of his creative poem. I read it like she was practically mocking him, as if Hecht is poking fun at Frost for his "perfect" depiction of traveling through the woods at night. I didn’t sense any respect the first time. It wasn’t until the tenth or so time I read it I finally grasped that she was elaborating on his silent views but through her intense feelings. There was a great emphasis of silence in both(line 11) and (line 12) “The only other sound’s the sweep “ “Of easy wind and downy flake.” (line 6 and line 7)“…The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, they fill with a quiet snow..” Hecht almost did an almost

What is the definition of “home”? According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, home is a place of origin. However, everyone has a different definition of home. While some people consider home a physical place where they live in; others consider home a spiritual place where they can find comfort and warmth. The Death of the Hired Man is a poem written by Robert Frost that explores the theme of home. The poem consists of a conversation between Warren, a farmer, and Mary, his wife, about their former employee Silas, who has come “home” to die. Through the conversation between Warren and Mary, and the death of Silas at the end of the poem, Frost attempts to remind the general public to be more sympathetic and compassionate toward people who do

The speaker in “We grow accustomed to the dark” is expressing how it is to be blind and groping in the dark trying to find something to hold on. But what the speaker is really trying to say is that by groping in the dark we somehow learn how to cope and get used to it. By being in the dark, our eyes adjust to what’s new around us. In the second stanza of the poem, the speaker said, “A Moment - We uncertain step For newness of the night - Then - fit our Vision to the Dark - And meet

The diction of this poem is quite plain. Although the words are simple and no more than three syllables, the interesting about his poem is that it is an imperfect rhyme that follows an unusual pattern of ABAABCBCB. The simplicity of the words is what really brings out the real meaning though. By simply having fire and ice, Frost shows how this poem is nothing complex, only two natural opposing forces. It gets more interesting when he compares them with human qualities such as desire and hate. So although fire and ice are two opposing thoughts, desire and hate are similar in the fact that they are

Though in “We grow accustomed to the Dark”, a theme that carries on throughout the poem is adaptation. Once sight is loss naturally and gradually, there is a period of adjustment described. There are many trials and tribulations within this process, as described by the poem.

In Robert Frost’s poem “Out-Out-,” the poet uses literary terms to portray the man life a little boy lives. Frost shows that a little boy lives a man life doing work. He makes you see that you 're nothing to this world, and the blood spilling out of his hands represents his life spilling too. Frost shows this through imagery and figurative language. The title “Out-Out-,” is an allusion to shakespeare. This means an author writes about something already been written to make a point. People recognized “Out-Out-” because he took out “brief candle” of “Out-Out-Brief Candle.” This extends the image too the title and shows the reader that Frost wanted the readers to recognize it.

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on” (Robert Frost). March, 1874. The United States of America continues to recover from the effects of the Civil War. The Reconstruction Era is in full swing and segregation is at a new high point. The Chinese were being discriminated throughout California throughout the 1870s. In 1882, due to the high rate of Chinese immigrants, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress. This act meant that no Chinese immigrant could enter the United States for a period of ten years. At the beginning of the new century, the first World War began. As a result of World War One, art began to evolve. Publishers across the globe documented

In the poem “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost, metaphors, parallel structure, and alliteration begin to tell a story of loneliness. Frost starts the poem with, “I have been one acquainted with

The word “Night” is related to various imaginations and emotions. For example, night can be related to moon and stars, which are only seen at night. In this case, night seems to be mysterious and romantic. However, night can also be related to darkness and horror, so loneliness and fear accompanies one into the night as a result. Robert Frost chooses the night to be the theme of one of his poems “Acquainted With The Night”, and shapes a narrator who is acquainted with the night. The title of the poem seems a little bit strange because of the word “Acquainted”. Anyone can say he or she is acquainted with the night because everyone has the night for half of one’s lifetime. By using the word “Acquainted” , Frost tells readers that the narrator

In the first stanza, Frost is conveying that he yearns for the readers to think for themselves, to have a reason for believing what their beliefs! Don’t just claim to believe something without having any true reasons - or even worse, believe in something just because everyone else believes it. The beginning of the stanza goes: “…my wishes is that those dark trees” the dark trees represent what people believe, which might be wrong even if it is the popular belief. Next it reads: “… Were not… the merest mask of gloom,” the “mask of gloom” embodies the people that believe something without a true reason. Then the poem adds, “But stretched away unto the edge of doom” if “stretching away” is viewed as being the roots of a belief, Frost is stating that he wants the reader to have

The diction used throughout the poem gives several clues to Frost’s intended message. In line 15, Frost uses the words “unstoried,” “artless” and “unenhanced.” These words have similar connotations in that they all communicate a lack of something positive. In the scope of this poem, Frost uses these words to show that the westward land of America lacked the shaping of its own people. It was missing the towns and other

The poem Birches by Robert Frost portrays the images of a child growing to adulthood, and it is symbolized by birch trees as they age. The language of the poem is arranged in a systematic way through images, similes, metaphors, and musical devices. The images given in the poem make the readers visualize the real world compared to childhood life.

Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment. Just as feminist criticism examines language and literature from a gender and equality perspective, and Marxist criticism brings forward an awareness of modes of production and economic class to its reading of texts, ecocriticism takes an earth-centered approach to literary studies. The similarity of each field of ecocriticism is the assumption that the ideas and structures of desire which govern the interactions between humans and their natural environment are of central importance.

Robert Frost explores the age old argument over society’s need to establish barriers. The story unfolds as two farmers engage in the activity of mending their fence lines. One of the farmers, the narrator, begins to doubt the purpose and benefit of the wall and tries to convince his neighbor that repairing it is a silly pursuit. Interestingly, the change in tactic occurs after they have been at it for a while and the speaker complains “(W)e wear our fingers rough with handling them [the stones]“ (line 20). Perhaps weariness is a motivator for progress here. The neighbor seems unfazed by either the work or the narrator’s cajoling and continues with the repair; replying with a steadfast, “(G)ood fences make good neighbors” (45).

Robert Frost is a renowned poet and writer of the 19th to 20th century whose works have revolved around peculiar and unfamiliar topics during the time. Frosts works of poetry revolves around the exploration of simple tasks and how these tasks relate to certain meanings and ideas of poetic meaningless. Frost Conveys theses somewhat absurd ideas using one-dimensional language and structures his poems to give his work a melodic or specific pace that conveys the message to the audience. The journey to which the reader endures through his poems shows the nature of how simple tasks can be used to convey a more significant meaning.