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    Intro: Tear down the walls! Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" and Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" both talk about how walls separate people from each other, but they talk about different walls and different ideas. Those walls create a physical, as well as a mental barrier for the narrator and neighbor in Robert Frost's "Mending Walls" and Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" that hinders the characters from relating to each other in a certain way. Although the style and tone of these two authors

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    Composers such as Robert Frost and David Wilkie incorporate these notions into their literary works. Robert Frost dexterously composed the poems Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening and Mending Wall to reflect the ambiguous nature of man’s interpretive expeditions. Similarly, David Wilkie adapts Titan’s 16th century ‘Supper at Emmaus’ to his 19th Century painting Christopher Columbus at the convent of la Rabida to portray the ever relevant nature of expedition into the unknown. Frost analyses metaphysical

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    The writer of the poem is Robert Frost. Robert Frost's point of view in Nothing Gold Can Stay is about family and how you should cherish the beginning of every new life. Nothing Gold Can Stay was written in 1923. The poem was written in New Hampshire. If you understand the history of a writer it can better help you understand it because you know what they are going through and what was happening whenever they wrote their piece of writing. Nothing Gold Can Stay is written in it's original language

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    Robert Frost conveys in the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” that the loss of innocence is an experience everyone goes through. His short poem portrays the concepts of innocence as valuable and unique, that through the passage of time we all lose our innocence. Analyzing the poetic devices Frost used in “Nothing Gold Can Stay” such as Metaphors, Rhyme, and Imagery shows losing your innocence is natural and it will eventually happen. Frost uses metaphoric language as his primary poetic device to establish

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    Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost, takes the reader inside a snow globe by painting the pictures of beauty and isolation one would expect to find inside the glass sphere housing desk-sized winter wonderlands. Though the picture and enchantment doesn’t carry through the whole poem, the reader shares some wonderful moments enjoying such beauty before climbing out of the poem and back to reality. The poem is comprised of four verses that take us inside a solitary winter evening

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    Road Not Taken Metaphor

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    Not Taken”, Robert Frost uses a wide variety of poetic devices in order to not only portray the meaning of the poem but also to implicitly insert his views on decision-making. Through the use of extended metaphor and imagery, Frost is able to showcase the importance of taking your own path rather than following in the footsteps of others. The title of any literary work is the first impression a reader gets of the work itself. Through the use of the title “The Road Not Take”, Frost is able to grab

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    Road Not Taken Tone

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    The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is an insightful poem, where he chose to represent his message by exploiting two roads as a symbol of a life decision. The author’s use of tone and literary devices such as metaphors and symbolism aid us in better grasping the message. The poem presents the obvious question of whether it is better to select a road in which many travel, or to select the road less traveled and discover it yourself. Consequently, the theme of the poem is about making decisions. The

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    Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is a poem describing the journey of an unknown traveler on his way back home. At a certain point during his trip he is passing through the woods owned by a man who lives in the same village as he does. He decides to stop and savor the beauty of the woods on this particularly dark winter evening. This darkness, however, goes far beyond the physical setting in the story and is more fitting perhaps, for the way Frost’s traveler feels inside. Robert

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    Major Life Choices

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    Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Robert Frost depicts the weighing of major life decisions. In "The Road Not taken" the speaker find himself in a dilemma where has to choose between two roads, and decides to take the “less traveled” one to deal with. While in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" the speaker has to choose between two different worlds and seeks for one that can offer him a life out of the ordinary. Robert Frost uses nature to portray that in both poems depict the

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    Nothing gold can stay was written by Robert Frost in 1923. Frost was a US citizen. He lived in San Francisco until he was 11 when his dad died of Tuberculosis. This poem is more of a narrative poem since it tells a story from behind the words, the poem is about the seasons changing, but when you look deeper into it, it seems as though it's about someone dying, or just bad events in general. The poem's title is most likely derived from the most impactful line in the poem, "Nothing gold can stay",

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