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    Frost and Loneliness James Sokolowski South University ENG1300 Week 1 Assignment 3 Professor Gabriel Smith   Frost and Loneliness Robert Frost is known for winning four Pulitzer Prizes was the Inaugural Poet for John. F. Kennedy in 1961. Some of Robert’s best work came during struggles in his personal life. Some issues he had to face were unexpected deaths of family members, unsuccessful attempt at farming, and having to move in order be recognized. In his poem, “Desert Places,” Frost explains

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    Robert Frost had difficult time periods in his life. Frost lost his first born to suicide, his second born later developed a mental illness, his third born died in her late 20’s, and his last born, Elinor, died a few weeks after being born. A high school sweet heart refused to marry Frost until she finished school and many business opportunities failed for Robert Frost. The poet, Robert Frost, expressed these hard times in his poetry. Many decisions were made by Frost for him to experience these

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    Robert Frost, a famous American poet, constructs his poems with related themes. Frost addresses the limitations of man, often in relation to metaphysics and nature. At the same time, Frost takes typical daily situations and transforms them into situations of reflection, tragedy, and death. These ideas are discovered in Frost’s poems “Out, Out-” and “After Apple-Picking.” Using repetition, figurative language, and parallelism, Robert Frost captures the essence of darkness. “Out, Out-” a poem that

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    “Robert Frost: The Imagery of Thoughts and Feelings” While reading Robert Frost some central themes that are commonly found are, nature, loneliness, and the world as it is versus how it could be or we wish it to be. To support these themes he employs the use of imagery not just to show you what is happening. In doing so he tries to bring a true understanding of what the speaker experiences not simply what they see or feel but both. To do this he uses physical descriptions as metaphors to represent

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    not always made to work out that way. Robert Frost uses figurative language, such as allusion, personification, diction, imagery, foreshadowing, and symbolism to illustrate the brevity of life in “Out, out-.” He uses these devices to tell the story of a young boy who dies an irrational and unexpected death after an accident with a saw. Frost’s use of personification brings the saw in “Out, out-“ to life. “The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard” (Frost, 1) like an angry person (or even animal)

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    properly care for a child, and could be easily peer pressured into drinking or doing drugs, these situations could be devastating for teenagers if they aren’t responsible enough to make the correct decision. As a sort of response to this issue, Robert Frost writes

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    Robert Frost is one of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century. Frost places a great deal of importance on Nature in all of his collections, some of the author’s works that represent this are “Fire and Ice,” “The Road Not Taken,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” and “A late Walk.” Frost focuses on dramatic struggles in the natural world in order to inspire deep metaphysical thought. In “Fire and Ice,” Frost outlines the familiar question about the fate of the world

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    “The Road not Taken” by Robert frost, is a poem directed to making decisions with hard choices; focusing on the theme, mood, symbolism, and interpreting this poem, Robert Frost will show what he thought when writing the poem. "The Road Not Taken" written by Robert Frost, is probably a very familiar poem to people, mainly because it was a popular poem written by a well-known American author during the twentieth century. “The Road Not Taken” is one of the most taught poems in schools in America. What

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    fellow named Robert Frost, who was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. In the year 1874, Robert's life began in San Francisco. He lived there for eleven years with his family until his father died. When that happened, Robert, his mother, and little sister all moved to Massachusetts. There, Robert went to high school and graduated top of his class. He went on to complete only one term at Dartmouth College, and after that, two years at Harvard University. After leaving college, Robert worked as

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    While some may say Frost was a tad unoriginal, Robert Frost incorporated an abundance of distinctive sound and theme in his poetry to express his thoughts and feelings more successfully. In “Acquainted with the Night,” Frost uses a unique structure and rhythm to create a distinguishable sound to his writing. He then uses an idiosyncratic theme to pull readers in. “Acquainted with the Night,” exudes a moral that teaches the audience a lesson, through an advancement of delight to wisdom. The poem then

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