Some Time When The River Is Ice Ask Me

Frost further points out that the stretch of woods being viewed is very rural. This is made possible by the reference to the location between the woods and frozen lake. In closing the final sentence of the second stanza Frost reiterates the fact that this occurs on “the darkest evening of the year” stating the darkness of the mood.

He realizes that in those songs it made him really understand how much pain and suffering he had to go through as well as other slaves that were so unfathomable that hearing those songs again would only cause him grief beyond belief. Those songs would be the only evidence of what slaves had to encounter and in hearing those songs it explains the very meaning behind what slavery really meant and how inhumane it actually was and only the ones who sung those songs truly understood the agonizing truth behind

The second stanza shows that there’s no emotion reflected to the character’s mood when everything is blank in the mirror.

Prompt: Write a unified essay in which you relate the imagery of the last stanza to the speaker’s view of himself earlier in the poem and to his view of how others see poets.

In the first stanza, the writer uses many techniques to convey the feeling of loss, when he says,

without warning”. Then in the third stanza, where he illuminates the allure of letting go of

kind,” (line 16) and “An’ almost lose ma mind.” (line 17). Finally he shows us his complete

Thesis:What: Theodore Roethke uses literary devices such as point of view, imagery and figurative language in his poem “My Papa’s Waltz” to convey the father and son relationship … Why: (Go beyond a literal meaning of the poem) … in order to demonstrate that the son unknowingly suffers as a result of his admiration of his father’s traditional masculinity and must overcome it to enter the world as a free man. List the poetic devices you incorporate into your analysis and explain how it creates your stated meaning. Poetic Device 1: Point of View What (Quote 2-3 examples) “The whiskey on your breath/ Could make a small boy dizzy” “We romped until the pans/ Slid from the kitchen shelf”

A wise man does not want to die without his words of wisdom making their own mark on this world. By the third stanza he uses an image of the ocean as a symbol to describe last generation of men that dieing. By using the ocean he shows that by the waves crashing against rocks it is giving life in a green bay.

The first stanza is addressed to ‘old men’ and how they should not simply slip away and die quietly, they should fight death until the end. Poetic techniques

Diverging being the key word in this line because it suggests that the traveler must make a choice. Line two the speaker expresses his grief of not being

The next significant mention on this subject is in line two of the second stanza were the sentence: “A pulse in the eternal mind ”. This shows that mortality is indeed an important issue, this however has greater connotations as it shows that he feels he has left an impression on the world which he later puts down to being English.

We will also see questioning come up many times throughout the poem. By questioning himself so much, the reader may infer that he is very indecisive and doubtful. Thirdly, another line that the author will repeat throughout this poem is "In the room, women come and go/Talking of Michelangelo.” This can perhaps tell the reader that the author is living in a society in which the talk of popular artists is something common.

The speaker returns to the prayer structure in the second stanza when he begins his confession, “the dreary part” (2.1). He considers his confession to be dismal, because much of it focuses on his desperate attempts to work within the constructs of the expectations of his audience. He cannot figure out why deer are beautiful, because he thinks “they’re like enormous rats on stilts” (2.3), and he recalls trying to shoot and kill rats when he was twelve.

Immediately, the question of who this person may be comes to mind. As the second stanza begins it is clear the the point of view has switched to third person and Thomas’ goes on to describe how good, wise, wild and grave men have “[raged] against the dying of the light” (7). The entirety of the fifth stanza is a declarative sentence- a call to arms against the war on death. This is an apparatus to ignite passion amongst those who hear his words. But the sixth stanza comes full circle back to second person creating a more intimate effect. This illuminates the overwhelming distress and devastation he felt at the time because it is here that Thomas’ own father is revealed to be the subject of the poem.