In fact, the first poem in his first book and the last poem of his final book are both about encounters with nature. Some say Frost was a common American writer who was in love with nature, such as James Fenimore Cooper. However, others say the woodsman he wrote about as “independent, defiant of urban artificially and at one with nature was one of his conceptions of himself.” His poems about nature portray many different themes. Frost used the woods as a place that could be used “for restoration of
It seemed as if the grass were about to run over them…” (13). Grass would remain a major part of the landscape even if the trees were larger in size, just like the immigrants would remain a major part of America even when times got rough. Cather uses the Nebraska scenery to describe the calming and tranquil feelings that a character like Jim Burden or the Shimerda clan would; “On the edge of the prairie, where the sun had gone down, the sky was turquoise blue, like a lake, with fold light throbbing in it” (173). All around the people was something more; more than the town, more than the crops, more than themselves. When the characters stop and recognize surrounds them, the tranquility of their surroundings hint that good times will come; “There along the western sky-line, it skirted a great cornfield, much larger than any field I had ever seen.
He stood and looked down one road as far as he could to where it bends in the undergrowth. So he decides to take the other road and having perhaps the better claims, because it was grassy and wanted wear, although as far as the passing, both were the same. (Frost 1916) Although in different form it is evidenced that both literary works are on some of kind journey. The writer uses imagery as well to describe how she is also on a journey that allowed her to cross over a river. While standing there looking down at the stepping stones remembering each one.
Throughout Willa Cather’s novel My Antonia, Cather uses many different types of imagery. Cather’s sparse allusive style relies on the quality and depth of her images (Novels for Students 206). Cather amazing comparison to the nature in the novel and her characters emotion is amazing (Yagmin and Lieberman 2). Cather use weather, seasons, and the land to describe the moods, emotions, and views on life that Jim Burden has. In the beginning of the novel Cather use weather to describe that calmness that Burden was feeling after being in Nebraska for a little while.
In the second poem, I will discuss the Robert Frost poem Road Not Taken. With in the poem Frost puts an emphasize on basic imagery for which one can take a mental picture of each line described. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
Recapturing Robert Frost’s “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening As the reader recaptures the poem “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”, the author, Robert Frost tells a story how he is desperate to finish his journey riding through the snow covered forest, trying to get home to someone who he made a promise, and which he intends to keep. This poem shows complex and simplicity at the same time. By showing a short simple poem with only sixteen lines and a rhythmic scheme, but then the complexity shows up in how the reader interprets the meaning. Just by reading the last three lines of the forth stanza which says, “But I have promises to keep, And miles to go be I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep” (Kennedy, 2013, pp. 842-843) keeps the audience wondering what the promise could be.
A commonly overlooked, yet highly influential variable in both literature and everyday life is the concept of an assumption. Even though assumption seem almost like an instinct, Sir Thomas Wyatt’s They Flee From Me explores the notion of human assumption to demonstrate the influence and power this concept has on both love and everyday life. The first and second stanzas of They Flee From Me immediately presents the reader with somewhat of an interpretative quandary. Words such as “tame” and “wild” are utilized to describe the subject of Wyatt’s poem—a character simply referred to as “They”. Because of these specific terms, the reader questions exactly who or what the poem is actually referring to.
The Rocky Peaks of Colorado Imagine waking up and walking outside to get your news paper on a mid summers morning and looking around at a vast landscape of nothing but mountains surrounding your town. This is what you are so privileged to get when you live in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Now if you were to just walk out of your town you would be able to find countless trails leading you to overwhelming beauty. You’ll find waterfalls, hidden lakes that you could have never though would be so clear or even animals you didn’t think lived in Colorado. I hope that I will be able to convince you by the end of the day that the Rocky Mountains of Colorado hold some of the most beautiful and breath taking views imaginable.
SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA I really liked the poem Somebody Blew Up America. It was really inspiring me to do different things that I don’t do. After reading this poem I realize that there are a lot of things I don’t know that I should know. Shortly after the beginning of the poem it started off every sentence asking who did this and who did that. Mostly every question and topic it asked about was extremely important.
Reid thinks the main purpose for writing is writing for real life. Write what you know and are curious and passionate about so that you can show not just tell. She believes that those rules are not universally true. When situation changes, suppose we are writing for a newspaper, rules are not appropriate under such situations. And although writing is hard because there are thousands of rules to follow, we are encouraged to set aside those so-called rules, write rhetorically, make a breakthrough and try something new.