Exhale pain, Inhale grief
Witnessing constant disappearance, yet remaining to seem like the depiction of complete normality. Deafening silence engulfing all surroundings, on its way to eventually evoking insanity. The smell of cold, dry air freezes over all breathing pathways, caging in the ribs, preventing the ability to inhale and exhale, leaving behind the taste of metal as a reminder of a chaotic state of mind. Mentally trapped in chosen solidarity, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and Elizabeth Bishop were able to express their hidden despair through poetry. Frost having experienced major loss in his life, Shakespeare lying to himself to cope with his actions, and Bishop constantly masking her pain while in the eyes of the public. In “Desert Places”, “When my love swears she is made of truth”, and “One Art”, the author’s use connotative diction to weaken the severity of their personal issues. Robert Frost’s poem “Desert Places” diminishes an overall sense of emptiness to being nothing compared to what he holds within himself through the use of connotative diction. Throughout the poem, the description of a cold, dark night represents the intensity of the depression that Frost was feeling. In the final stanza, Frost reveals that “I have it in me so much nearer home, To scare myself with my own desert places”, “it” being the darkness previously mentioned in the poem. Furthermore, the “desert places” introduced in the final line are a representation of the dark emotions
The overall theme of the poem is sacrifice, more specifically, for the people that you love. Throughout the poem color and personification are used to paint a picture in the reader's head. “Fog hanging like old Coats between the trees.” (46) This description is used to create a monochromatic, gloomy, and dismal environment where the poem takes
In this poem, Frost discusses his situation as, “When I see birches bend to left and right...” This poem is clearly set in a more rural portion of the United States environmentally due to both the presence of birches and other darker trees as Frost explains. Lentricchia explains Frosts’ portrayal of the setting as, “"Birches" begins by evoking its core image against the background of a darkly wooded landscape...” The setting is crucial to the meaning of this poem due to the fact that it is based around the scene portrayed throughout the poem. Clearly, the natural setting of this poem relates to the meaning of the overall
However, it is difficult to define what the “night” means to the speaker at the beginning. In this stanza, the narrator walks in the rain and see the city light. The narrator wanders in the night, feeling that he is isolated from the world, despite the fact that he is in the city. The rhyme in the first stanza is obvious because the narrator starts five lines with the same pattern “I have”. Frost uses the first person perspective in order to emphasize the narrator’s loneliness.
The poem “Summer Night, Riverside” by Sara Teasdale transports readers into a young, summer night. Teasdale paints a serene scene that is easily visualized because what is seen is not the only thing thoroughly described. As a reader we are given an image with sight, smell, and feelings. You can smell the “fragrant darkness” (15) and picture the moon shining down on a “curving pathway” (6) bordered by blooming trees. The author presents the reader with a magical evening and provokes sentiment for the readers own summer nights.
It gives the reader a sense of hope and happiness. The narrator is dreaming about what he wants to do after the cold, miserable winter is over. The author uses imagery to describe the lush fields and paradise-like setting that the narrator is imagining- the “ferns that never fade” and the “…quiet hill /Where towers the cotton tree”. Personification also plays a role in building up the cheerful and blissful mood. The place that the narrator is recounting has “wide- mouthed orchids that smile” and a “laughing crystal rill”, both of which are positive descriptions.
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.
In the article “Water Worries Grow in the Desert Southwest,” Rice (2013) talks about climate changes and causes that impact on water in the desert Southwest. The author mentioned Native Americans, they used canals and dams to bring water since 10 centuries. Today, there are 56 million Americans growing up in Southwest and they have region’s natural dryness. Also, Arizona state has less rain every year around 7.5 inches. In addition, Colorado River is most important to help 30 million people in Southwest.
In the poem by Sax, he uses anaphoras in the end of the poem by using “this is … this is…” (l. 9-11) in the beginning of each sentence to describe the likeliness of each object to his emotion. The setting of his poem is more ambiguous than Levine’s poem but it could be inferred that it’s at night during winter it could also be in the character’s house during that time as the character remembers the memories that cause him to grieve. Levine’s poem uses symbolism to describe the character’s time of revelations during his process of grieving which is mentioned as a dance but is really the time spent walking in the woods (l. 19). The setting of Levine’s poem is in the woods which can be inferred from the imagery of pinecones and mountain
Evidently, the imagery in this reading sets the mood as dark and gloomy, reflecting on the situation soon to
Robert Frost was a great poet for many reasons. He was well known for the complexity of his poems and the imagery associated with it. He describes places, people, and interactions between them that you wouldn’t think about. He also used very intricate diction in his writing so everyone could understand and appreciate his work. The reason why he appeals to most people is that he tells life lesson’s in his poems.
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1974. Frost, his mother Isabelle, and his sister Jeanie all eventually settled in New England [after the death of his father]. Ultimately, Frost ended up with lots of vocational experience. Alongside being an established poet and a writer, Frost had experience as a teacher, reporter, millworker, and farmer. However nothing is more synonymous with the name Robert Frost than his poem “The Road Not Taken” (O'Neill 12-15).
Throughout life, people are often faced with many decisions. Some of these decisions are easy to make, while others are excruciating, as they can be life altering. From a Christian’s perspective, however, people never have to make these decisions alone. God promises that he will never abandon his people, “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you” (New International Version, Deuteronomy 31:6).
The final ending of the world is in question to many individuals. In the short poem, “Fire and Ice”, by Robert Frost, he outlines a familiar topic, the fate of the world’s destruction. In nine lines, Frost conveys the contradiction of the two choices for the world’s end. Frost uses symbolism to convey the meaning of fire and ice as symbols for human behavior and emotion. This poem revolves around two major symbols.
He implies this sense of darkness as a way of “fun” as he describes acres of land and houses being reduced down to “..only dirt..wet or dry..” (line 24). The meaning is misunderstood as the “...blady carouses” contradict the importance of the land with the final line, “...you can hang or drown at last..” (line 28). The reader comes to the realization after the last line of the stanza is that the writer was trying to warn him of the things that may possibly burden him later.
This article provides examples of what people think about Frost’s poem and why they choose to resonate with it and refuse to identify the hidden meaning. This source would be valuable it use when asked to provide a popular source, or when needing to explain personal reasons for considering Robert Frost’s poem to be about something larger than the interpretations many others have about his famous