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Robert Frost
In Robert Frost's poem "Out, Out--" loss has many meanings. First, the boy sawing wood feels the loss of his free time and his freedom when he isn't dismissed a half hour early from work. As Frost...
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Robert Frost
The first line describes how violently the buzz-saw moves and sounds as it "snarled and rattled in the yard." Then the speaker counters that violent image with how pleasant the landscape is in the...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" is told in the first person. The narrator describes the task of maintaining a wall between the neighbor's pine trees and his own apple orchard. The wall is...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost was an American poet born in San Francisco, California at the end of the 19th century. He wrote a number of his most famous poems, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,"...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost was a poet who is associated with the landscape and vernacular of New England. Born in San Francisco in 1874, he moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, when he was 11, following the death...
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Robert Frost
The speaker is commenting upon what he sees in the last days of autumn. The use of the adjective "late" in the title might indicate that it is late in the year as autumn approaches winter. The...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost's "The Pasture" is a two-stanza poem with a xAAx rhyme scheme, written in iambic pentameter except for the final line of each stanza, which utilizes iambic tetrameter. One example of a...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost (1874-1963) is an American poet, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and was poet laureate of the United States from 1958-1959. It is without a doubt Frost's move to England that gave him...
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Robert Frost
In his poem "Out, Out--" Robert Frost uses the juxtaposition of positive, warm details to emphasize the horror and unexpectedness of the boy's sudden death. The poem begins: The buzz saw snarled...
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Literature
Robert Frost is one of the most popular modern American poets. Because his career as a writer began to take hold just after the turn of the century, he can be considered one of the 20th century's...
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Robert Frost
This line employs several different literary techniques. On the surface it is personification, since the frost is given the human-like quality of "lurking," suggesting that it is waiting for a...
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Robert Frost
Yes, the title "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" is appropriate for the Robert Frost poem. The narrator of the poem is on his way somewhere with his horse when he stops in the woods. It is...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost's poem "The Housekeeper" calls on many New England themes and qualities; they are as follows: 1. The housekeeper is hardworking. She says "I can sew" (line 8), even though she is...
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Robert Frost
In writing an essay about Robert Frost's distinctive qualities as a poet, you'll want to consider his most frequent themes, subject matter, and style. Frost has been called a distinctly American...
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Robert Frost
In Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," the neighbor thinks it is a good idea to have a fence marking off each man's property so they will definitively know where the borders of their properties lie....
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Robert Frost
As with many of Robert Frost's poems, nature is an important part of the setting and the activity performed in nature creates an opportunity for what is usually an allegorical message. As with...
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Robert Frost
In Robert Frost's immensely-popular--though often misinterpreted--poem, "The Road Not Taken," the road "less traveled by" symbolizes a couple of things. First, this phrase symbolizes the desire to...
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Robert Frost
Because Frost is drawing sketches of the New England landscape as well as writing poems with large abstract ideas imbedded in the symbolism and metaphors, the reader recognizes the common everyday...
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Robert Frost
In Robert Frost's poem, "Mending Wall," the speaker seems to advocate not having a wall between his property and his neighbor's. He starts off talking about how walls are damaged and that he's not...
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Robert Frost
Three of the many features that are often present in Robert Frost's poems are a) a simple rhyme scheme, b) everyday language, c) multiple symbolic meanings. For example, take the opening stanza...
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Robert Frost
This poem is a narrative poem because it tells a story. Narrative poetry can also contain a plot, refer to different characters, and even involve dialogues. The characters in this poem are the boy,...
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Robert Frost
The poem refers to the fact that sometimes beautiful things do not last long. They tend to be evanescent. Gold is of course associated with the precious metal. It is extremely valuable in this...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost's, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" uses imagery to describe different states of nature. He starts out with a metaphor saying, "Nature's first green is gold." As the seasons change from spring...
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Robert Frost
Few poets in American history have had the influence of Frost. Though never having graduated from college, he received over 40 honorary degrees and was awarded four Pulitzer Prizes. There are...
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Robert Frost
In some respects, the opposite is true: Frost’s primary goal is to draw sketches of New England life—the mending of stone walls, the walking paths in the pastures, fields, woods, the...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost once wrote, "In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." Frost's belief about the continuation of life is reflected in his detailing of nature. This...
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Out, Out—
I have answered each of your questions below, and for your convenience I have included the questions in order. The allusion in the title of this poem is an allusion to Macbeth by William...
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Robert Frost
On The Sale of My Farm is one of Robert Frost's lesser known poems and was written before the height of his fame. It is the place he and his wife most cherished. Having farmed and later taught at a...
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Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost gives the reader an insight into the complexities of decision-making. Often, easily-made decisions lead to utter confusion as a person tries to justify the...
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Robert Frost
Both poems, like so much of Frost’s work, are rich in nature imagery. However, ‘The Road Not Taken’ paints a definite picture of a traveller passing through a wood, whereas the second poem...
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Robert Frost
In the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, the roads symbolize choice, while the "yellow wood" could refer to a concept like "life." According to this interpretation, the poet is therefore...
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Robert Frost
"Nothing Gold Can Stay," by Robert Frost, is a poem about the illusory nature of life. This theme, that nothing of value ("nothing gold") will last forever, is substantiated through the imagery of...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The physical circumstances of the narrative voice are clearly described in the poem’s details: snowy, quiet, dark, etc., but the mood or mental state of the narrative character’s deserves...
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The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken was written by Robert Frost in 1916 as his career as a bona fide poet was establishing itself. The poem is about making life-altering decisions but it is widely held that Frost...
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The Road Not Taken
In 1912, Robert Frost sailed back to Great Britian, where he would live until the start of World War I. While in England, he met and interacted with other famous poets, such as Ezra Pound, and...
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The Road Not Taken
The speaker in The Road Not Taken has reached a fork or crossroads in his life and, extending the metaphor, represents it as an actual road or path that forks in two directions. He is surrounded by...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost's "A Minor Bird" opens with a title which reflects man's inability to appreciate nature. The use of the word "minor" in the title shows the insignificance with which man regards...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
From a Judeo-Christian religious perspective, God can be said to be the "owner" of the woods to which the poet refers, but Frost explicitly identifies the wood's owner: His house is in the...
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The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken has an enquiring tone and the speaker - who is not necessarily the poet - questions his decision at every step. He even suggests that in years to come he...
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The Road Not Taken
The speaker in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken reflects upon life's difficult decisions. The speaker is not necessarily the poet himself and it is thought to relate to Frost's friend, Edward...
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Robert Frost
Frost's poem is profound in how it shows existence as something that is mutable. The only permanent element in consciousness is that there is change. There is something profound in this. Frost...
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Robert Frost
While critics disagree about Frost's place as a modernist poet (many argue that he is a pastoral poet... one concerned more with the sensuality of nature than the angst of the modern man) several...
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The Road Not Taken
It has become a common coined phrase - "The Road Not Taken" - as has " the one (road) less traveled" and Robert Frost's poem deals with the decision-making process and the consequences of any...
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Mending Wall
In Mending Wall the speaker, an apple farmer and his neighbor "set the wall between us once again" after it has inevitably been broken down by natural events after the " frozen-ground-swell" or...
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Robert Frost
The tone of the end of the poem is curious and disappointed, and the mood is regretful and thoughtful. Tone is the author’s attitude toward the subject, and the mood is the emotional landscape of...
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Robert Frost
The insight that the poem gives regarding the sense of self identity is one in which the individual understands more of self when they are apart from others. The poem does not offer a collective...
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Robert Frost
The original question had to be edited. I would suggest that the poem's echo of the Modernist construction of truth lies in truth being seen as far from absolute. Truth, as the Modernist would...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost, better known for Mending Wall and The Road Not Taken, wrote this poem in response to criticism about the lack of depth in his work. From a religious perspective, people are always...
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The Road Not Taken
The first thing to remember about the poem is that Robert Frost, the author of the poem, is not the narrator of the poem; much like Robert Browning, an earlier British poet that he admired, Frost...
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The Poetry of Frost
Robert Frost’s poetry appears deceptively simple; however, his poems have more than one level of meaning. His work typifies the New England area and the beauty of its landscape. Frost inserts...
