The Use of Symbolism in Robert Frost's Wind and Window Flower

The third and fourth stanzas offer the poems greatest paradoxes. The author speaks of the lovers being "At this unique distance from isolation" which is to say they are in the one place where they can truly be themselves, in their natural habitat, doing that which is only natural to human instinct. Despite these circumstances, however, the two are at a loss: "It becomes still more difficult to find / Words at once true and kind, / Or not untrue and not unkind." It is through this final stanza that the author conveys the ultimate paradox of human relationships: Relationships are not built upon true love for one another; rather they are built upon the absence of hatred.

The third stanza goes on to define the pain, only now in more emotional terms, such as "It hurts to thwart the reflexes / of grab, of clutch" (14-15), as well as the pain of continuously having to say good bye, each perhaps as if for the last time: "to love and let / go again and again" (15-16). These lines reinforce the impression that the first stanza's definition of "to love differently" is in fact an anti-freedom or state of emotional anarchy, now using words like "pester" to describe any separation; the poet is compelled "to remember / the lover who is not in the bed" (16), hinting at obsessive tendencies as being possible components of the relationship. We also learn that she believes love requires work, which she cannot do without her partner's assistance, and that this lack of cooperation frustrates her. She believes this neglected effort is the other party's fault by his failure to do his fair share, thereby leaving her own efforts ineffective, the whole of it characterized as an effort "that gutters like a candle in a cave / without air" (19-20). Her demands of this work are quite broad, encompassing being "conscious, conscientious and concrete" in her efforts and optimistically calling this work "constructive" (20-21) before ending the stanza.

Men cannot see the wind because it is not corporeal. But the author had an experience were he could when traveling down a road.

In Robert Frost’s poem “To the Thawing Wind,” in the literal sense, he is asking the Southwest wind to come, melt the snow and bring spring, but symbolically he is tired of the winter and wants warm weather. He wants to burst out of his cabin and have a good time, not thinking about poetry. The poet has been confined in his winter cabin and is wanting the wind and rain to melt the snow, so it will change his winter isolation. He has been longing for the “thawing wind” because that is when spring is coming. He is anticipating spring to come because it will bring him inspiration and the freedom needed to be able to do new things and enjoy everything good that comes with this season.

The Use of Literary Devices in Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

How can an author effectively convey a universal message to the broadest audience possible? Simple. The author must simply create a completely impartial narrator, devoid of sex, status, or age. The Road Not Taken is a poem told by an impartial narrator who has come to a crossroads in his/her life. The crossroads is represented by a forked path that leads through a forest. The setting is also impartial; the forest is anytime and anywhere the reader desires it to be. The narrator is forced to make a life-decision, thus changing the course of his/her life forever. Symbolism and imagery are used effectively to reinforce the main theme of the poem.

It takes a monumental experience to recognise discovery and to that extent the composer’s manipulate their ideas on discovery and represent them in a way that is memorable. Robert Frost’s “Tuft of flowers”, “Mending wall” and Jean-Marc Vallée’s “Wild” have intertwining ideas of Nature and Relationships that leads to emotional and intellectual discoveries. In this speech I will present to you my understanding of how “Representations of discovery are made memorable through the composer’s ways of communicating”.

The tone of the speaker was very sad, cold and lonely for misses his father. Evidence that support that he misses his father can be found in the poem. The second and the third stanza reflects how he feels about the weather and I think he meant the fall season in which he uses a cold tone “the garden is bare now. The ground is cold, brown and old”, he clearly just mentioning the negative sounding around fall. A lonely tone also found in the last few stanzas, when he mentioned that his food is almost cooked “White rice steaming, almost done. Sweet green peas fried in onions. Shrimp braised in sesame oil and garlic. And my own loneliness. What more could I, a young man, want.”. The part where he said, “And my own

When it comes to nature there are many times in the book that it symbolizes love or has something to do with it. In the beginning it talks and the pear tree and the bees around it pollinating the flower of the tree. This showed how she thinks love should be, pure. The storm later to me represented that love can be unpredictable. They choses to stay because they didn’t think the storm would be as

The poem begins with a narrator describing her sorrow and suffering on her journey through life (TWL p.56 ll.1-5). She goes on to explain that the leader of her country has left his people (TWL p.56 l.6). The narrator is upset by this, and she searches for her only to find out that she can only see him if this is in secret (TWL p.56 ll.10-12). The audience finds out that the narrator’s leader is also her husband, and she does what she has to do to be with him again (TWL p.56 ll.14-15). After they get together once again, the narrator finds out that her husband isn’t the man he once was and sets her up “plotting murder” (TWL p.56 ll.18-20). She is then forced by her ex-husband to live in isolation by herself in under a tree in a cave (TWL p.56 ll. 27-28). The elegy ends with the narrator expressing her distaste for her ex-husband, and she hopes that he suffers the pain that she did for the rest of his life (TWL p.56 ll. 42-53). While the ending is distasteful, the wife playing the main character shows uniqueness for a poem written during the Old English era of literature (Johnson).

One way to analyze the poem is by examining the question at issue. The question that the author of the poem is trying to answer is that she doesn’t know if she won or lost in her relationship with her mysterious lover. In other words, the question at issue is that she doesn’t know if she won for breaking up with her lover, or if she lost for breaking up with him. There are many reasons why I believe the author lost, because they loved each other and they enjoyed spending time with one another. They also had a connection because they were happy together yet they viewed their relationship as a simple game. For example, in the poem, it states… “Once we played at love together.” This suggests that the author is trying to answer questions about

She is only a mirror, after all. The speaker tells us that her lover is blind - whether willingly or not is not identified - to the truth of their relationship when she says that, during their intimate moments, "your own eyes you find you / are up against closed closed," (lines 16-17). She speaks with a bitter tone, clearly showing that she is displeased with her situation and the constant expectations she must meet. At the same time, though, she writes with an open-handed honesty - she is simply a mirror telling her story, it seems. The introduction that Part I provides us with identifies the problem the speaker is facing - she is at once unhappy but has willingly placed herself in her role as mirror.

make a decision and at the end of the day, the nature of the decision

Furthermore, a second poetic device used in both of these poems was personification. In “Reluctance,” Frost personified the parts of his body to explain how torn he was about losing his love: “…The heart is still aching to seek/ But the feet question ‘Whither?’…” (Frost, 17-18). The personification in this stanza made the persona’s uncertainty and pain apparent and contributed to the establishment of the mood. If the persona himself had bluntly said that he wanted to look for his loved one but didn’t know where to look, the impact would not have been nearly as dramatic. Millay also used personification in her poem, “Time Does Not Bring Relief”. Personification was used to communicate the role time played in her life during her loss: “Time does not bring relief; you all have lied/ Who told me time would ease me of my pain…” (Millay, 1-2). The lack of involvement time had in the speaker’s life during her loss made it apparent how deeply grief-stricken she was. Nevertheless, if this poetic device had not been used to convey the theme, it would have turned out less impressive, if not awkward. Millay used an additional personification in her poem which was used to personify the rain: “…I miss him in the weeping of the rain…” (Millay, 3). The

My first and immediate explanation for the poem was an address from one lover to a