Although Robert Frost appeals to the common man, he gives a deeper meaning in most of his poems. In the poem there are many sound devices such as a rhyme scheme, consonance, and alliteration. In line one, Frost says “world will.” The repeating of the W sound gives alliteration. He also gives another example at the end of line four when he ends it with “favor fire.” In line six, Frost shows consonance by saying, “think I know enough” with the repeating sound of the consonant N. Along with his poetic devices, he also has a rhyme scheme which appeals to the reader and makes it easy to read and connect to the narrator. Frost’s poem centralizes around the metaphors of fire and ice.
Rhyme and enjambment are also used to help convey the message about how the speaker believes the world will end. Even though this poem is a short nine lines, it has a lot of emotion and meaning hidden in it. The first two lines of this poem, “Some say the world will end in fire / Some say in ice.”, (Frost lines 1-2) show an argument between two groups of people. The two groups of people are the ones that believe the world will end in fire and the ones that believe the world will end in ice. Frost has left us with only two options as to how the world will end.
Then, Frost shows respect for ice which implies that he believes ice can be just as devastating. One thing about "Fire and Ice" that really stands out is the balance. Frost uses only 9 lines, but his point is well made and well balanced. It is a very symmetrical poem. The second and second to last lines are only four syllables while the rest of the lines average about 7 syllables.
This poem is very well organized with words chosen very carefully making it smooth and easy to recite. These rhyme schemes help make the poem more interesting. Rhyme schemes also help Poe highlight key words that he wants his audience to notice. Poe had many rhymes in The Raven, yet he made it so the poem does not sound like a nursery rhyme or a children’s poem by using his very complex vocabulary. Symbolism plays a very big role in “The Raven”.
John Steinbeck made the plot interesting and the themes behind the work were truly brilliant. The book had its points were they were very descriptive but didn’t keep me interested enough. Reading through those boring parts is completely worth it though. Steinbeck makes the book easy to understand and i like that quality a lot about this book. In my opinion, I got the idea that this book was written more for the workings of the mind but at the same time Steinbeck wanted to make you feel something as you read this.
I have zoomed through two short novels so far this quarter and I’ve enjoyed both very much. I have read Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway, and have now finished Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Stylistically, the differences in Hemingway’s simple, yet effective descriptions of the sea and events contrasted strongly with Wharton’s more sophisticated and more complex sentences. However, both styles of writing served the purpose of the authors to create captivating and moving stories. I do feel that Hemingway’s simple vocabulary and direct narration would make his writing more accessible to a greater number of people at all age levels, as opposed to Ethan Frome, which would likely appeal to those who could read through a more diverse, complex vocabulary and narrative style.
You related your essay to a book and I thought that was a very safe move because the outcome of it was amazing might I say. However, I think it was a little repetitive in some paragraphs and you really didn’t allow me to see the big picture of some of the things you were saying, like the part when you said your friends committed
Romanticism is really cool. With literature it deals with nature, psychology, the supernatural, freedom, emotions, and other neoclassical ideas. It’s a shame the stories given were tedious because they display characteristics of romanticism. Anyways, the authors of the two stories used said characteristics to develop the themes of their stories. My mission is to explain how by using examples from the text.
The pictures and the silly stories kept me interested and wanting to read more. However, the very best thing about these books was the rhyming; the more it rhymed the better it was! After reading close to every Dr. Suess book possible, everything that I wrote had to rhyme. That must have been why I picked up writing poetry, because it held rhymes and rhythm. Even to this day I cannot bare to write a poem without it rhyming, it just does not carry as much as appeal (at least to me).
Much Ado About Nothing was a difficult play for me to understand at first, but after watching the play and going back and reading it again it definitely helped my understanding of the sarcasm happening by the characters. I thought it was a nice piece put together by Shakespeare and I enjoyed the overall effect that it had on me. Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing. New York: Dover,