These two poems, in my belief, are two of the most metaphoric & symbolic poems ever written which use a good deal of imagery to help us understand what the poets are trying to tell us. Although their structures differ, they both give us the same message between the lines. Herbert and Frost use similar themes because their sole purpose is to help us realize what we did in our past, what we’re doing now, and how to plan our near future. Both poems use metaphors in a beautiful way. In Frost’s poem, for example, the road not taken is that road which most people are afraid to walk….the hard road.
The poem wants him to explore his identity and hints at returning to his homeland and in doing so accepting his roots and cultural heritage. This is shown in the direct speech in the last two lines “We will meet before you die”. The persona feels a sense of belonging at the end of the poem because he has consoled a part of his identity which relates to his cultural
“The Road Not Taken” proves to be a poem with emotional influence. Throughout the poem the author emphasizes the importance of the choices we make throughout our lives and the consequences we have to deal with in the end. There are two roads that split. The narrator realizes that he cannot go down both roads. He stands at the fork in the road and stares down one road as far as he can.
Haley Biemiller What is imagery? In the world of literature imagery is much more than a little picture painted in your head. To find true imagery you must engulf yourself in the world of that piece of literature and see how in depth you can get. A story can withhold much more meaning that expected from surface reading, and imagery in a tool used by many authors and in this case poets, to expose you to the detail needed to be seen to understand the real meaning and the points that are meant to get across. The use of imagery is shown through many poems written by world-renowned poet Eavan Boland.
Aware of how “way leads onto way” the traveler dislikes that he cannot take both roads. Although he knows that he may never be allowed to travel the other path, he continues on into the better path. Imagine every choice in life like the forked roads in a forest, it gives us a more clear idea of how one decision leads to another and how this choice can either take us deeper into the woods or guide us to safety. Through this, Robert Frost shows us what happens making a choice that we will have to live with for the rest of our life. The poem ends in an almost regretful tone as the traveler looks back at
They wrote for anyone interested in the notion of transcendence, or the notion of using reason and intellect to exceed one’s limits of the world. (www.vcu.edu) A poet is unique to a transcendentalist because he can see nature and portray it in his own verse. (www.vcu.edu) “A poet’s wreath and robe is to do what he likes to do” (Charles Bakely, p137). A poet can do what ever he feels like when he is writing poetry. He is capable of writing verses that his of his own.
Imagery was used to place an idea in someone’s head about what was going on in the poem. It was very important that this was used because there were not written documents of these writings and they had to be passed down orally. Actions had to be emphasized allot for the listener to better comprehend what he was hearing and process it to remember and repeat. “They have seen my strength for themselves,/Have watched me rise from the darkness of war,/Dripping with my enemies blood;”(pg.24 lines 151-153)Beowulfs strength is expressed to its fullest extent, for the reader to know how powerful he really is. These literary devices show how powerful the heroes and enemies in the Angelo-Saxon religion actually are.
“Paul Revere’s Ride” is a very well written poem and is a very extravagant poem. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” was a very hard poem to read, but is very exploring into the world of war. Both poems were enjoyable to read and fun. As these poems show life before our time was very hard-fought and amazingly
Frost uses the metaphor of two distinct paths to represent two options in his life that he has to choose from. He uses vivid imagery within this metaphor to describe the differences and difficulties of these choices; the first path “having perhaps the better claim” (7) and the second “grassy and wanted wear” (8). Frost then chooses the less traveled path and ends the poem with the declaration that “that has made all the difference” (20). In addition, the paths opened themselves to Frost “in a yellow wood” (1), portraying that Frost has come to a crossroad in his life where he needs to pause and, in order to get any farther, also needs to make a choice between the two paths. The yellow represents both a need for an analytical and pensive pause, as well as the fraying and dying season as steps foot into a different one.
Dickinson enriches the language in her poems with similes ‘As wholly as a Dew’, metaphors ‘Boots of Lead’ and personification ‘A Bird came down the Walk’. These literary devices help Dickinson to form powerful and thought provoking images to the reader. Dickinson is known for her use of ambiguity. Her poems are often so explicit in imagery and literary techniques that they give the reader numerous perceptions and meanings of the poem. For example, ‘I started Early-Took my Dog-’ may depict a number of different situations depending on how the reader interprets the imagery.