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Robert Frost
Robert Frost’s poem “The Egg and the Machine” critically examines technology’s harmful impact on nature. In this poem, the speaker rails against the railroad system and its destruction of a...
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Robert Frost
One of Robert Frost's most famous poems is "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." This poem demonstrates the phenomenon described in the question, in which the self does not dominate the poem, but...
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Robert Frost
In "There are Roughly Zones" Frost explores man's tension with nature. Man always wishes to fight against the boundaries of nature, and often he successfully does so, but sometimes he overreaches...
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Robert Frost
I'll help you through a few of these, and hopefully that will provide the support you need to more fully examine the remaining poems on your own. "Mending Wall": In this poem, the speaker examines...
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Robert Frost
Let's look at Frost's short poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay." It is quite potent, to use your word, because the language is so condensed. He says so much with so few words. We can understand the first...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost's poem "Range-finding" is about a stray bullet from a battle that, on the way to its target, travels through nature. The poem begins, "The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung / And cut...
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Robert Frost
In his sonnet "Design," Frost describes the fatal convergence of a white moth, a white flower, and a white spider. The image is stunning, combining death, life and beauty in a carefully observed...
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Robert Frost
The poem takes the form of a series of couplets in iambic tetrameter. Two lines in a row will rhyme, forming a couplet. Each line is composed of four iambs, that is, two syllables whose natural...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost worked on the poem “Design” for several years before first publishing it in 1922, and he tweaked it afterwards, ultimately including it in his 1936 collection A Further Range. The poem...
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Robert Frost
In comparing the themes of these two poems and finding similarities, I'd focus on how nature can be distracting. In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," the speaker longs to remain a while in...
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Robert Frost
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two things that are unrelated but may share common characteristics. In the poem "The Silken Tent," Robert Frost extends his one central metaphor...
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Robert Frost
Sound devices are techniques which lend a sense of rhythm to a poem. They include end rhymes, internal rhymes, meter, alliteration, assonance, and consonance, all of which cause emphasis to fall on...
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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
In "Desert Places," Robert Frost takes a scene from nature and uses it as a springboard for a philosophical idea. The poem begins with a description of a field filling up with snow at night:...
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Robert Frost
While one could consider Robert Frost's poetry sad, another could consider his poetry thought provoking. Questions like this will always get different answers. The question can only be answered by...
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The "glimpses" that the poem refers to are shown to be dazzling and beautiful glimpses of nature that truly point us towards the intense and inspirational beauties of the natural world that our...
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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
In the poem "Once By The Pacific" by Robert Frost, Frost shows his darker side. If we define tone as the feeling the author is trying to create while defining mood as the feeling perceived by the...
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Robert Frost
This is a poem with many levels. On the surface, it is basically a simple story about a man and a horse who stop by some woods on an evening when it happens to be snowing. However, the poem’s...
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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
The poem "Going for Water" by Robert Frost is narrated in the first person plural (probably by children). The narrators live in a rural environment and rely on a well for their water. Because the...
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Robert Frost
Life of a farmer seems slower than the fast-paced world of business. They also have to deal with many different people coming to work for them throughout the year. This poem talks about an old man...
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Robert Frost
It would seem that Robert Frost was a supporter of the Modernist movement in that he is considered to be one of the foremost poets of this movement. According to biographer Tejvan R. Pettinger, at...
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Robert Frost
Frost alludes to the story of the Garden of Eden in "Nothing Gold Can Stay." This allusion comes up in the second half of the poem when he says So leaf subsides to leaf/ so Eden sank to grief/...
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Robert Frost
Most of Robert Frost's poetry contains images and metaphors from nature, but even Frost once said of himself that he is not a "nature poet." He says in almost all of his poems there is "a man." It...
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Robert Frost
The original question was edited. I think that the strongest emotional response to the poem exists in how there is a permanent sense of change in consciousness. There is a clear demonstration of...
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Robert Frost
"The Road Not Taken" seems to be a bit of a conclusion in life; at the very least, the speaker is at a vantage point in his life where he can reflect upon the different choices that he has made and...
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Robert Frost
"The Black Cottage" by Robert Frost appears upon a first read to be one of his denser and more difficult poems to understand. However, the overarching theme is one easily understood: change, or...
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Robert Frost
In analysis of poetry, it is essential to find the controlling metaphor, for this is what drives the poem and gives it the poetic meaning which lies within the literal. In order to find this...
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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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Robert Frost
In "The Line Gang" Robert Frost describes a team of men who are setting telephone and telegraph wires. They begin by cutting down a forest, "replanting" the logs as telephone poles, and then...
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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
I'm not sure what you mean by "consider synonyms," but to me, the most negative stanza in this poem is the last one (although I should say that the whole poem feels quite negative to me). I say...
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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
Frost's poem contains one of the most quoted lines in all of poetry; "Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in" (lines 118-119). The idea is that...
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Robert Frost
The theme of "Once by the Ocean" is the inevitable passing of time and its slow destruction. There is a heavily foreboding tone established at the outset of the piece. The water and waves "shatter"...
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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, 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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Robert Frost
The regular rhythm and simple structure of this poem, based on four-line stanzas, is suited to its topic: the simple activity of shoveling "mountains" of dried leaves. The poem's regularity echoes...
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Robert Frost
The most notable literary devices in Robert Frost’s "An Unstamped Letter in Our Rural Letter Box" are rhyming couplets, similes, and diction. Frost uses rhyming couplets (two lines of roughly the...
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Robert Frost
This is a lovely short poem by Robert Frost, reflecting his love of nature and the natural world, which are, of course, key elements in so many of his poems. This poem concerns the way that...
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Robert Frost
There are multiple examples of figurative language found in Robert Frost's poem "The Pasture." The first use of figurative language appears in his use of repetition in the poem. Repetition is when...
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Robert Frost
Warren believes that "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." In contrast, Mary calls home "Something you somehow haven't to deserve." Warren looks at...
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Robert Frost
In Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening," line 8 of the poem mentions that the events of the poem take place on the "darkest evening of the year." There are two possible meanings...
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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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Robert Frost
The "denotation" of a word is the actual, dictionary definition. In the same vein, the "connotation" is the suggestion of the meaning of a word apart from what it explicitly means. By definition,...
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Robert Frost
Loneliness is one of Frost's most profound themes throughout his poetry. I think the best place to begin discussing this theme is with one of his most famous poems called "Stopping by Woods on a...
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Robert Frost
These are two very interesting poems to compare. In both, the speaker narrates some kind of interaction that he has with two neighbours, but the precise nature of these interactions are very...
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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
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...
