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    Robert Lee Frost Analysis

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    Robert Lee Frost was conceived in San Francisco, March 26. He was one of America's premier twentieth century writers and won the Pulitzer Prize four times. In spite of the fact that his verse shapes are old-style, he was an innovator in the interaction of meter and rhyme and in the wonderful utilization of the vocabulary and emphases of how everybody speaks today. His work is full of nature and is very touching. Two of Robert Lee Frosts supreme and popular poems that I will be working with are “The

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    When looking at both Robert Frost’s and Emily Dickinson’s poems about darkness and night, several things are brought to light. This includes the different point of views provided by the speaker, the imagery left for the reader to depict, the structure of each poem, and how both poems connect to each other. In each of the two poems, the speakers have contrasting opinions on the idea of darkness and the night. In Emily Dickinson’s poem, the speaker presents themself with optimism within the phrases

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    Just like the other two poems listed above, this is a personal narrative in which Robert recalls watching a white moth landing on a white flower and being eaten by a white spider. Frost refers to the moths wings as “a white piece of rigid satin cloth” referring to the white satin that is lined in a casket. Robert refers to the spider, flower and moth as characters of “death and blight” like characters on a keyboard, which raises the question of

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    Robert Frost’s “Birches” depicts the relationships between imagination and reality, liberation and confinement, and youth and adulthood. The speaker of the poem battles with his current life— adulthood, and uses his reminiscences of adolescence and his imagination as a means to escape from his reality for a period of time. Frost uses three different themes that he presents in three sections to represent his emotions: nature, a young boy, and a mature man who has the opportunity to reflect on his

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    Keats and Robert Frost expressed emotions similar to poets of today. In these different time periods, each poet masterfully crafted timeless pieces applying a variety of syntactic devices to create expressive poems. In the 16th century, Shakespeare used quatrains and couplets to write his sonnets. Some hundred years later, John Keats was a prominent figure in Romanticism, a poetic style known for expressing emotional passion in the 19th century. More recently, in the 20th century, Robert Frost wrote

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    This poem was written by Robert Frost in 1923, in New Hampshire. He wrote it for political reasons because he was mourning the end of the world. It does not appear as it was origianally written. It was not part of a series or collection. It also does not belong to any particular movement. This poem was not written about any person or national hero. It is not a lyric, or a haiku. It is, however, a conffesional poem, as it speaks of his opinion of the polotics of that time. Yes, because, the title

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    Robert Frost is a poet who is known for writing simple stories that contains deeper meanings about life. In “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” both depict measuring life's decisions as a piece of the account. These poems signify a journey, where one must choose between two paths in life. In both poems, the speakers reach a point of uncertainty in their journeys. Although both stories have similar aspects in life decisions, there are some differences. These differences

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    The works of poet Robert Frost are in fact famous for his time, because they impacted the world of poetry. Though his poems bring the theme of nature, there is more to his rich poetry. His poems shape an image of life and how life interacts with the surrounding environment. Robert Frost’s two poems "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "After Apple Picking," talk about the reality of life by telling the story of a person in their early life compared to a person at the end of life. Some

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    Each poem is unique and special in its own way. For example, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” compared with Emilia Lopes, Lena Lopes, and Aleena Frith’s poem “Depression”. These two poems are different, but also similar in more than one way. Both texts have different characteristics that tell them apart from each other, but they also have similarities that go along with their differences. The texts "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "Depression" by Emilia Lopes, Lena Lopes, and Aleena Frith

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    love that laid the swale in rows, Not without feeble-pointed spikes of flowers (Pale orchises), and scared a bright green snake. The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.” In Mowing by Robert Frost, Frost is trying to say that though it’s easy to dream of things being easy, you are more satisfied by your efforts. This poem starts off with these two lines, “There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering

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