Hecht's Poem: Travel Through The Woods

Billy Collins’ poem “Snow Day” encompasses irony throughout the poem. The poem is about a snow day and Collins’ starts the poem by describing the beautiful blankness of snow. He uses phrases like “landscape vanished”, “libraries buried” and “the path of trains softly blocked” to depict a blank, quiet world; one which has fallen under the spell of snow. He goes on to write about how he stays inside and listens to the radio while it announces all the different schools that are closed. Towards the end of the poem, he starts to talk about the children who play while school is out. Here the poem takes an unanticipated turn, and he speaks of what the children are talking about. This irony makes the poem less about the snow day itself and more about

Robert Frost’s poems explored the nature in a rather deep and dark way. For example, his poem, “After-Apple Picking” is hidden under a mask that looks like a harvester is just tired and wants to go to sleep after a day of picking apple from tree. However, we learned that this poem has deeper meaning than what is being shown on the surface. This poem is about actually talking about death as a deeper meaning. I think it is really interesting how Robert Frost, as a poet, was able to connect two themes that are completely different and make it into a single poem. I love all the metaphors he made in this poem such as the ladder to heaven (apple-picking requires a level which Robert Frost was referring it to the ladder to heaven) and the seasonal interpretation (winter is death and spring is rebirth) that connects to the natural process of decaying and

Robert Frost 's poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” conveys the complex emotion 's within the speaker. Complex emotion 's- loneliness and pain- of the speaker are implied throughout the poem using tone and imagery.

In these poems he is focused on putting his opinions out into the world, similarly to Dickenson, by talking in first person and expressing how he feels about certain things like the birch trees and about which road he should take. He puts a lot of emphases on nature, searching for something, reflecting on past experiences, and building central metaphors. Like any poet, Frost uses many metaphors, similes, alteration, opinions, emotive language, and occasional facts that he notices. In many cases it seems as if a whole poem by Frost is a metaphor, like in “The Road Not Taken” which is a metaphor for the decisions people make during their life time. Another example is the poem “Stopping by Woods”, where the whole poem is basically a metaphor for slowing down and enjoying life in the

In “Popular Mechanics”, a story written by Raymond Carver, we as a reader find out about the pain of separation and the breakage of family. Carver uses two stylistic elements, diction and syntax, to further develop a tone within “Popular Mechanics”. Diction is the word choice and use of words in speech or writing. The syntax of a story is the arrangement of words and phrases used in order to create strong sentences in a language. These two elements together can help develop tone, which is the general character or attitude of a piece of writing.

Robert Frost is one of the great poets of the American pantheon. Throughout his life, his work was recognized over the US border, particularly in England where he first published. The work of Frost was greatly marked by his attachment to nature (“Storm fear”, “The tuft of Flowers”); attachment that he might have developed from his life in rural communities. Growing up with a single mother after the passing of his father due to sickness, then the death of his kids, Frost’s work have conveyed the immensity of the darkness that has haunted his life. His bitterness, his depression, his sadness, his comfort zone, his wake up calls, his solitude; are some of the elements that a reader can feel reading through his lines. “Acquainted with the Night” is one of Frost’s big piece that we are going to appreciate in the following lines.

Choice can be defined as making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. Robert Frost composed “The Road Not Taken” for a friend, Edward Thomas, intending for the poem to be a joke. Although Frost had opposite intentions, many critics in the modern day interpret the poem as a complex writing about making meaningful decisions and choices. “The Road Not Taken” was created in 1916 and originally titled “Two Roads,” then later reconstructed. The figurative language used in Frost’s poem demonstrates the importance of making choices in everyday life. Devices such as symbolism, imagery, and theme are portrayed in his popular poem. Symbolism is used to make

Frost’s monotonous stanzas, as seen when he begins half of his lines with “I have” followed by a verb, produce an inherent feeling of boring routine. Whereas Dickinson’s poem stimulates hope, Frost’s poem causes all hope to cease by painting images of “the furthest city light” and “the saddest city lane.” His character’s progression through the night is that of regularity. Frost re-enforces this monotonous routine with a methodical rhyme scheme—aba bcb dcd dad aa—ending with the words, “I have been one acquainted with the night” signifying defeat. This submission leads to envelopment by darkness which shows that instead of adapting to make the darkness hopeful, surrendering causes the darkness to

After reading “Journey,” by Tiara Anderson in the first issue of Red Rising Education magazine, I understood that there is an array of various conflicts Indigenous men and women have to tolerate on a daily basis. Anderson discusses many topics in her poem including stereotypes, self-hatred and the missing and murdered Indigenous women. She is now in her senior year of high school and a mentor in a girls program called “Nodoka girls.” Anderson initially wrote this poem when she was twelve years old though, but this poem 's revised over the years. Five years later, at the age of seventeen (Anderson, 2017, pg. 13), she finally mustered up the courage to share it with the world. This piece takes you along the journey of a young girl’s path to self-acceptance and delivers an insight of her culture.

Robert Frost, one of America 's most famous poets wrote the poem ¨Acquainted with the ¨Acquainted with the Night”is an example of one of Frost´s ¨depressing” poems. Deirdre Fagan says that, ¨The poem shares something in common with Frost 's other journey poems, such as "Into My Own." He once again finds himself alone, only this time the setting is very different¨ When you read the poem it really makes you feel like you are in that lonely state. Critic Elizabeth Isaacs, for example, argues that the poem "strives to experience precisely the essence of man 's existence in his lonely human state." Frost experienced quite a few tragedies throughout his life. His father died, his young son passed away as a child, his daughter died within a day of being born, his wife later died of a heart attack and to think a person couldn 't possibly take much more, his son commits suicide. Along with these tragedies, Frost decides to put his sadness and depression into his writing. In the poem ¨Acquainted with the Night¨ you can see that Frost was lonely, hurt and he tended to isolate himself away from others.

Everyone has had at least one enlightening class that they’ll never forget. A class that, unlike so many others, truly teaches you about life, or in my case, mortality. Mr. Vindetti was my English teacher in junior high: a worldly and highly perceptive individual who expected the absolute best from his students. Junior high school is a blur, so I barely remember what I was taught throughout the years, but I still recall numerous lessons from Mr. Vindetti clearly. One day, after my grueling math class and my absurdly uninteresting history class, it was finally time for the one class I genuinely enjoyed, Advanced English. I walked into class, as usual, and sat down next to Mara, my brilliantly sarcastic seat neighbor. Mr. Vindetti was sitting

The meaning of Frost’s poem is similar to the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Elie explains why he and his family do not leave when they have many opportunities or untraveled roads. The first opportunity the Jews receive occurs before their town of Sighet is taken over by the Nazis of Germany. Elie presents the idea to follow Moishe the Beadle’s advice to leave while they can. Moishe is a captured survivor from Sighet who tries to warn the Jews of the Germans who will come for them soon. Elie suggests to his father that they should liquidate all of their belongings and escape the danger. Another opportunity that arises happens when a friend of Elie Wiesel’s father knocks on their outside house window. Their window is knocked on to

The title “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” gives insight into the poem and can change the interpretation. The use of the word “stopping” is subtle foreshadowing to the decisions the speaker will end up making. As he is passing through the woods, he is faced with the internal conflict of deciding whether he should stay and watch the snow fill the woods or continue on his journey. It can be inferred from the title that the speaker is going to make the choice of moving forward. On top of this, the poem includes intense imagery describing the wonderful woods the speaker stumbles upon. He describes the woods as “lovely, dark and deep” (13) as he stands and admires. The speaker feels at peace saying that “the only other sound’s the sweep / of easy wind and downy flake” (11-12). Unaccompanied and carefree, the speaker spends his time admiring the beauty and peacefulness of where he stands. Frost also uses phrases including onomatopoeia such as “he gives his harness bells a shake” (9) and “the only other sound’s the sweep / of easy wind and downy flake” (11-12) to appeal to the senses and bring the woods to

Anyone could understand his poems from a literary aspect but the deeper meaning of his poems was trickier to decipher. This elementary diction was used in both “Fire and Ice” and “The Mending Wall”. The writing style in “Fire and Ice” draws a lot more attention to certain concepts and ideas. It also seems like the writing style is more direct but that is associated with the length of the poem. From the title, we know that two elements are being compared and Frost uses fire and ice as antonyms for describing love and hate. This writing style is used to represent different emotions fire and ice can be. In “The Mending Wall," there are examples of diction that portray Frost 's word choices. Frost’s writing style highlights the parallels between the discussion of desire(ice) and hate(fire). He uses sensuous verbs to describe these two factors by saying, “I think…. I know…”, it means that the poet is confused and his life experiences have influenced the poem. Among the noteworthy words are also the word desire. He uses this word to preserve the rhyme scheme in a better fashion. Whenever the word desire is used it usually gets replaced by lust, this word carries a deeper more impactful connotation. By using desire instead of lust, he leaves the poem open to more variations, rather than lust which is more one dimensional. Frost equates simple desire with lust, therefore giving it a darker meaning

The scenery is breathtaking, but the only objects that catch his eyes are the “few weeds and stubble showing last.” (stanza 1); therefore, indicating the narrator’s undesired appreciation for the scenery. The feeling of isolation progresses into stanza 3 with the phrase “And lonely as it is, that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less – A blanket whiteness of benighted snow With no expression, nothing to express.” Stanza 3 expresses the isolation the narrator feels towards nature with a bland description of the snow falling onto the field, conveying emptiness within the narrator, and the mentioning of a scene set in the winter with a landscape; relating to the narrator’s own complex feelings of loneliness.