Poetry

The central idea of Douglas Livingston's "Lake Morning in Autumn" is the resilience and determination of the stork during migration, reflecting a broader message of perseverance. The poem draws...

Both "If—" by Rudyard Kipling and "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost explore themes of personal growth and decision-making. Kipling's poem emphasizes resilience, self-mastery, and the virtues of...

Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson both explore themes like death and destruction, but their styles differ. Frost's "Fire and Ice" reflects Dickinson’s concise, rhymed poems with a sing-song quality,...

Both Robert Frost's "Out, Out—" and W. H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" explore human indifference to suffering. Frost's poem depicts a boy's tragic accident and the surrounding adults' detached...

Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens, both early to mid-twentieth-century American poets from New England, differed in career paths and literary style. Stevens worked as an executive at Hartford Accident...

In "Out, Out--" by Robert Frost and "Disabled" by Wilfred Owen, the two poems demonstrate the loss of life and freedom in a young man. The boy loses some of his limbs due to the accident, while the...

The repetition of "and" in Finuala Dowling's poem highlights the intense and relentless actions of the doctor treating a raped baby, while also linking these actions to contrasting images of normal,...

Both Dickinson's "Apparently with no Surprise" and Frost's "Design" explore the theme of a higher power governing nature's cruelty. In "Design," Frost attributes the spider's killing of a moth to a...