Formicarium

Analysis of Robert Frost's Poem, Departmental “Departmental” by Robert Frost is a poem written in rhymed couplets with three beats per line (trimeter). Throughout the poem, Frost uses poetic devices such as personification, allusion, rhyme, and alliteration. The poem as a whole serves as a metaphor for the way humans deal with issues like death.      The poem begins with a description of a scene familiar to many, “an ant on a tablecloth…” Then the ant bumps into a day drowsy moth that is much

"Departmental" by Robert Frost is a poem written in rhymed couplets with three beats per line (trimeter). Throughout the poem, Frost uses poetic devices such as personification, allusion, rhyme, and alliteration. The poem as a whole serves as a metaphor for the way humans deal with issues like death. The poem begins with a description of a scene familiar to many, "an ant on a tablecloth…" Then the ant bumps into a day drowsy moth that is much larger than him. The ant seems a tad bit jealous that

important later when he needs to know how to conduct himself and treat his subjects. Later in the story, while Wart is recovering from a broken collarbone, he asks Merlyn to transform him into an ant, so he can interact with the ants from Merlyn’s formicarium. When he is brought into this world, he notices the ants do not stop working, and they know only two things, done and not done. Wart also learns that the ants do not have names, just numbers that describe which ant they are and what job they are

The image of the witch did not exist until the late fifteenth century. While the witch did exist in the popular imagination, the term “witch” was not yet synonymous with “female.” Although the witch craze was an early modern phenomenon, the stereotype of the female witch is rooted in several elements of late medieval witchcraft which antedate the witch hunts, and the time period that scholars recognize as most critical for the formation of the witch lies between the years 1430 and 1660. Before this