A journey can be very simplistic or it can be very complex, a journey can be triggered by an unconscious compulsion or we can find ourselves propelled into new circumstances forcing us to embrace the journey. Many journeys hold the power to enlighten and provide us with an exhilarative and reflective experience. Journey The North Coast by Robert Gray immediately thrusts the reader into the journey experience at the beginning of the poem. Gray uses his personal train journey experience to his home to establish the excitement and elation that are associated with journeys through the use of effective language. In this poem we find ourselves a participant on the journey and we are able to share in Gray’s experience.
This is evident to see when Sergeant explains to the people gathered at the camp of his stories: (Sergeant) As whence the sun’gins his reflection, Shippwrecking storms and direful thunders, So from what spring whence comfort seem’d to come, Discomfort swells. (Act 1 Scene 2 25-28) From this we can perceive the emotions that the characters may have had while this incident was taking place and visualize how it may have happened. Compared to the first quote which just describes
His poem captivates his readers or listeners and sends them on a fictional road that describes how each situations outcome may be altered by the choices being made and how a conclusion will be different every time. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” illustrates the act of choosing and dealing with life’s “speed bumps”. According to the author of Journey into Literature R.Wayne Clugston, “Robert Frost’s lyrical style and masterful use of ordinary language and rural settings made his poetry delightful. Building on delight, he engaged in ironic inquiry to give expression to complex ideas and questions that define the human spirit” (as cited in Clugston, 2010, section 2.2) “The Road Not Taken” is easily comprehended because most people experience this identical state of mind dealing with day to day issues. Is this right or wrong?
In “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which is an abstract diction and has deeper meaning lying inside it, the poet gives us a beautiful image by explaining different views in the poem .However; we can see the beauty of his art by understanding the deeper philosophical meaning beneath the poem. The poet used personification, metaphors, symbolism, synecdoche and refrain to compare the cycle of nature with cycle of life. The main message of this poem tells us that with all the different effects that we cause to nature, eventually nature will dissolve us, our experiences and ideas and continue on its path. The Persona in this poem is the poet himself who gives us different images from a town and it’s sea shore .In the first line of the first stanza “The tide rises, the tide falls “(l.1), the poet is talking about a repeating cycle in nature. By paying close attention, we see that at the end of all three stanzas in this poem, Longfellow used refrain by repeating the same line.
The techniques that Sassoon has used in the poems are: imagery, simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering, but it always leads us to think more deeply about life for the following reasons: Firstly, it creates emotion; secondly, it shows us the brutality of war; and finally, hardships faced by soldiers and also by showing about death. Through this it becomes evident that a good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering because it creates emotion. Emotion refers to a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.
In the poem “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost paints us a descriptive picture of a fork in the road in which the reader encounters along his journey. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (Clugston, 2010, section 2.2) the reader knows that he cannot travel both directions and therefore thinks long and hard about his options. This is the point of no return for him, perhaps a life changing decision. Both of the roads look fair, as he looked long and hard down one, and then the
Although it is entitled “Mid Term Break”, the poem is far from cheerful. The ideas of death, trauma, grief and despair are explored here. The tone of the poem is somber and solemn. The narrator may seem a little detached as well. He does not show any outward sign that he is grieving too much over the death of his brother, but traces of his sadness could be seen in the times when he recalls memories of his brother, “the baby cooed and rocked the pram” and “lay in the four foot box as in his cot”.
Raw is a bildungsman text which entails the physical and internal journey of a teenager named Brett Dalton who has been sentenced to The Farm for a break and enter charge. Brett learns a lot about himself during this time while he finds love, new friends and new enemies. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a poem which follows the physical journey of a traveller who has to make a choice about which road to take. The poem focuses on reflecting on this decision and the path that was not taken. Journeys can either be solitary or communal, both of which are explored in Raw and “The Road Not Taken” through the use of narration.
The theme of transience and the enviably of death is quite a difficult idea to play with it as it can become emotional and lose its sense of clarity. However Shakespeare puts structure on this indistinct idea. His use of a straight forwarded rhyming scheme and structured meter conveys a sense of calm and peace allowing us to look t the subject more objectively. Furthermore the reassurance he offers us in his use of a rhyming couplet at the end really allows you take some comfort away at the end of the poem which resonates in your mind long after you have finished reading. This is a key feature in almost LL of Shakespeare sonnets and is often said to be one of the most enjoyable aspects of his works.
It seems that I must bid the Muse go pack, Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend Until imagination, ear and eye, Can be content with argument and deal In abstract things; or be derided by A sort of battered kettle at the heel. W.B Yeats Compare and contrast the poems above: Hardy Subject Matter: Problem of Old Age. Persona looking at his reflection and laments how people have grown cold towards him in his old age. Tone: Bleak and melancholic, seen by the diction=> “grieve”, “fragile frame”, “hearts grown cold”, “lonely” all connote the utter lack of hope. Explicit in sating his feelings Highly emotive with a lot of adjectives that make the persona’s current emotional status very apparent.