An Annotation of The Gift Outright by Robert Frost Essay

The colonists would not always feel this way in fact, “During the 1760s few colonists expected or wanted independence from an empire that had been so beneficial for them and which seemed so

In this essay I intend to prove that The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick shows that money and status doesn’t buy love and friends through the topic of identity.

Now, when it came to ownership of the land the Native Americans were known for hunting so, they needed their hunting land as well as land to grow crops. They were open for sharing land, “The South’s native people had well-defined hunting territories, fishing grounds, and agricultural plots which they vigorously defended against encroachment. However, they did not regard land as property that could be transferred in perpetuity to another individual or group”. However, the Europeans did not think the land should be shared. So, when they came over they took the land away from the

Poetry is considered to be a representational text in which one explores ideas by using symbols. Poetry can be interpreted many different ways and is even harder to interpret when the original author has come and gone. Poetry is an incredible form of literature because the way it has the ability to use the reader as part of its own power. In other words, poetry uses the feelings and past experiences of the reader to interpret things differently from one to another, sometimes not even by choice of the author. Two famous poets come to mind to anybody who has ever been in an English class, Robert Frost and E.E. Cummings. Both of these poets have had numerous famous pieces due to the fact that they both

Even some of the land given as a gift and other sadly taken away from native people that were living here first. Also, not everything was fun and games, slavery, crime, and corruption was happening in the colonies. Sometimes, there weren 't any ways of control everything that occurred, and there were also unfair laws that would take part by the government.

However the king still had power or authority over the colonists because the king still gave commands in the New World like the colonists had to send money back to England and the colonists in return would receive goods like food. The king protected the colonists from getting killed by Indians by making a law that the Indians stay west of the Appalachian Mountains and the colonists don’t need to go west. The king was,totally grateful,and protected the colonists from getting killed or badly

Some of the people from the colonies believed that they had a loyalty to England and some believed that they have a duty to this new sense of being an “american.”

In 1776, the Revolutionary War was fought to gives us the rights and the land we love. Through the Frontier Movement, settlers sought to establish a sea to sea exploration and development of the West. Publishing Homestead Act and other such land grabs, the U.S. government inspired a procession of settlement from Savannah to San Francisco. In all of this, the incentive was the acquisition of land, all of the exploration, the settlement was pushed by the idea of personal property. To finally have something they could call their own and that thought drew

The establishment of the original thirteen British colonies was not the first time that foreigners had reached the present-day powerhouse of a country, which is the United States of America. One example of Europeans in North America before the colonists was the French fur traders had frequently traded with the Native Americans. However, when the settlers arrived in the swamp studded marshes of James’ Town, which was the first colony, they must had been upset, as they were primarily after valuable minerals: gold, silver, as Britain’s economic system, at the time, was mercantilism—in which the main goal was to increase a nation’s wealth by regulating all of the nation’s commercial interests. Before the settlers arrived in the New World, French had traded some with the Indians. In A Micmac Indian Replies to the French, the French called the Native Americans’ home a “little hell”, a statement that the Micmac Indians didn’t find too tasteful—the Micmac Indian leader then asked why the French would leave their paradise, and risk their lives to reach a “little hell” . This reply from the Indian leader shows a few things—first, the Indians weren’t too impressed with the customs of the French, second—the Indians were knowledgeable of how important, as well as costly, their homeland was to the Europeans—and what goods it contained. Lucky for the settlers, one of their other interests was in the new world in plenty—land. One of the reasons the Europeans needed land so badly was that

To Natives, the property was mobile, distribution, and communal resources. So, the thought of what property was caused Euro-Americans to believe Native Americans didn’t know what property was, but the Euro-Americans did. The property was something on the line to the Natives as the Euro-Americans didn’t view property as mobile or a communal resource, and the Native Americans saw that the colonies would soon expand towards the west, they did. The Native Americans became dependent on the English as well. Native Americans received tools like European firearms that would be used to fight off rival tribes, and Natives used these firearms on the Americans during the war. As Americans fighting with the English intensified, so did the fighting with

For the Native Americans’, claiming the land had a different meaning. They felt a more spiritual connection to the land. They believed in a concept called “personhood”. This was an idea that gave inanimate objects a sense of a personality. “Because objects has a personhood, they also had the right to own themselves” (Albers). For this reason, the

Everyone has morals in life. Weather learned from nature, family, or past experiences. Robert Frost is well known for using different themes to teach morals in his poems. He uses imagery, emotions, different views, symbolism, and ever nature, to help create an image in one’s mind. The morals that these different types of themes create will make the reader face decisions and consequences as if they were in the poem themselves. His morals can be found in the poems, “The Road Not Taken,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” “Out, Out,” and “Acquainted with the Night.” Robert Frost’s poetry uses different themes to create morals which readers will use in daily life. “He is fairly taciturn about what happens to us after death, partly because he finds so

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “ The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.

In the closing couplet, with syntax and enjambment, the speaker continues express the withholdings of the feelings towards the land. In line 13 the grammar and tone begins to change compared to the other lines, there is parentheses, and ominous. Something we were withholding made us weak until we found out that it was ourselves we were withholding from our land of living. Frost is suggesting that the Americans’ withheld some power. And forthwith found salvation is surrender. Such as we were we gave ourselves outright (The deed of gift was many deeds of war). Here we can see a paradox in the poem expressing both line 1-6 shows owning the land and now in line 13 irony of gift and war. Frost is explaining how the colonials had gotten to that point. In line 15 there is vagueness, unpossession is referred –showing the land is still developing at this point. Clearly, this what not an easy battle to be won overnight. We know nothing was given but something seized. To the land vaguely realizing westward. Frost is showing us a mirror to the spirit of ambition and exploitation which lies below the surface of the official American character.

Robert Frost is perhaps one of America's best poets of his generation. His vivid images of nature capture the minds of readers. His poems appear to be simple, but if you look into them there is a lot of insight. Robert Frost spoke at John F. Kennedy's inauguration. He is the only poet to have had the opportunity to speak at a presidential inauguration. Through his poetry people learn that Robert Frost is a complicated and intellectual man who has a place in many American hearts. (Richards P.10)