Annotation Essay

If there were two roads to choose, which would you choose? That's what The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is about. The theme of the poem is that life's full of choices and you may choose the choice you wouldn't normally choose. What theme does the road not taken have well, that's not easy to explain, but this will give you the time. First the author used imagery. Second, he used metaphors and lastly the author used tone. Using these he made a poem that revolves around choices. First and foremost

Stave 1 Isolation Isolation is the main theme in this Stave. Scrooge is not involved in society and is not sympathetic in any way and is not liked by anybody. As it says in the text on page 3,” …. Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say with gladsome looks,”My dear Scrooge, how are you?” …. No man or woman ever once in his life inquired the way to such and such a place.” Is also states in the very beginning, “Scrooge knew Marley was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge

The second sonnet continues the argument and plea from sonnet one. This time through the imagery of military, winter, and commerce. Once again, time is the great enemy, besieging the youth’s brow, digging trenches in his face and ravaging his good looks. Beauty is conceived of as a treasure that decays unless, through love, its natural increase. By marrying and having children is made possible. The poet tries to scare the young man to marry and have children by showing him his future. When he is

The poem “Acquainted with the night’ by Robert Frost gives a description of a speaker experiencing depression in his daily life, he wanders through the night trying to escape the isolation he is going through. Frost uses the poem’s allusion to represent his soul. He uses the night to describe his soul, depression, loneliness, and isolation. The title of the poem tells a lot about the content that was written. The word “acquainted” that is used in the title tells the relationship between what’s

This short poem ridicules a General unawareness of his soldier’s ethics during World War I. In my opinion, the General is not as sad or depressed as his soldiers regarding death and misery. He didn’t identify with the depression they were going through; I’m referring to the massive demise of their comrades. The General couldn’t have been on the frontline because in line 3, I interpret it as the soldiers experience bad times while fighting during WWI. At the beginning of the poem, the General is

The apostle who personified the word love. Who other than John can be ascribed to this title? He alone was reserved the designation as the bosom-friend of Jesus, in many ways had become the best reflection so far as any human being can reflect the ideal of divine-human purity and holiness. John 's brilliance resides in his ability to penetrate foundational towers that undergird the events of Jesus ' life. Unlike Peter and Paul, he wasn 't a missionary or a man of action. “He did little, so far as

After reading several different poems, "The Great Figure" really stood out to me. Although the poem is short in length, I feel like it has a story hidden within each word, phrase and verse. The poem is about someone seeing the number 5 on a fire truck, in the rain, as the truck is racing through the city. The image connects the to the poem and also tells the same story as the poem. In the image, the number 5 appears three time in three different sizes. The different sizes creates the illusion

The American frontier is an era of great pride and taming of the nature with the will to conquer. American society is taught to never give up and peruse one’s dream, to value that dream and do whatever it takes in order to achieve it. Although this provides a double edged sword for society as it can be the will on one side, but also be the downfall on another. For if any person is supposed to truly resemble the American frontier, then Buffalo Bill would be that image. Yet, in a Native American perspective

“Annabel Lee” is the last complete poem ever created by Edgar Allan Poe and was most likely to have been written in May of 1849. This poem narrates the memory of the speakers and his lost love, in which the title of the poem is named after. The speaker and Annabel Lee fell madly in love when they were only in “the kingdom by the sea”. But she died at a young age, leaving the speaker with only his love and longing for her. The use of the poetic devices imagery, repetition, symbols and connotation

In areas that winter seems to be eternal, warmer days are usually yearned for by the majority. The majority representing both vegetation and the people among a society. The coming of spring impacts everything in its surroundings, it is a time of revival. In the prose passage, the speaker describes the streets of London in detail and admires the beauty of spring. He establishes his attitude towards the coming of spring with a positive outlook, imagery of real life events, and praise for the season