The poem is written as a turning point for the poet, his introspection gives him strength to make the decision that will change his life. The drive is a dramatic thing for him as it has taken him to new, positive places with positive directions. The drive in the country has become a world of liberty which allows him to refuse a way of life that is demanding and full of activity, “that runs only one way”. The poet has effectively implied natural images of peaceful tranquility. The setting has a reflective tone in which the poet is spellbound by the scene in stanza one, “I stood by the water’s edge and watched how swallows swam through the air”.
Frost indicates how life can be ruined by a simple malfunction or cease of light. Light, in the poem, however, does not symbolize sunlight, or even actual light for that matter, but rather thoughts, knowledge, and understanding. Although Frost’s poem is difficult to interpret and understand, once it is understood, the theme it conveys is obvious. Frost’s theme is that humanity is dependant on thoughts and knowledge, for, as long as we continue to think and grasp ideas, humanity will survive just fine. Frost compares a nearly never-ending play to like, for a play is a dramatic interpretation of real life and life, to humans at least, does seem nearly eternal.
Incidentally, he refers to Juliet’s life as “honey”, and that it was sucked from her breath. Therefore, it is not unnatural to assume that Juliet lived a good, friendly, and warm life. Love and death are a crucial part to the story as they provide a deeper meaning and understanding of it. Without images of light and dark as well as love and death, Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” would not have achieved the rightly deserved praise it has today. Consequently, the story would be dry and less lively, and some important connections and meanings could not be made.
“Old Man” clearly explores in paradoxes the problem of identity, as well as a feeling that we are cut off from our past and our future. The presentation of memory in the poem is directly linked to this idea of having a problem with identity. This is not necessarily the plant that is suffering from an identity issue, yet it may even be Edward Thomas who is suffering in “memory.” The first stanza develops a theme of naming. The plant with strange names is remembered fondly, we feel, by one who ‘knows it well’ – the phrase suggests a familiarity and wealth of memory associations, an idea challenged later in the poem. Here, however, the gentle internal rhymes, ‘tree’, ‘rosemary’, ‘thing’, ‘clings’, suggest a conversational, fond reminiscence.
Due to the fact that the language of the Angelo-Saxons did not have rhymes, it made it harder to memorize, but these phrases helped people make it easier. “That Sheppard of evil, guardian of crime/Knew at once that nowhere on earth/Had he met a man whose hands were harder.”(pg. 32 lines 432-434)This is a kenning used to describe how horrible Grendel was. These are used to make the imagination run more vividly. Imagery was used to place an idea in someone’s head about what was going on in the poem.
Taylor Maciulis Reynoso Advanced English November, 17th, 2013 Idolization kills When a person is looked up to day upon day, they begin to feel obligated to please those who are looking up at them. Taking a course of action to make others happy rather than yourself is a very noble course to take. Although it is very unselfish, it will not always be the most beneficial decision for the person to make in the end. The poem “Autumn Begins in Martin’s Ferry, Ohio” by James Wright exemplifies just how one’s devotion to please those who admire them, will restrain them of their own happiness. Poems consist of many different ideas and meanings for each person who reads them.
The Text states that Moliere wrote many different types of plays and they were well known for their timeless characters, which is still well known. The article also states that Wilbur’s approach to translation is informative and he often gives importance to “rhyming solutions”. I find it interesting that he argues that creating natural verse is a matter of patience, and creating rhymes that sound new. The article stated that at one point Wilbur had a fear of unintentionally overlapping verses, this shows the possibility of verses may have been more limited than it is
The opening line of the poem, “By naming them he made them,” connects “naming” with making (Page line 1). The idea—that naming makes an object—is paradoxical since the “making” is both creative and destructive. Naming reduces the range of possible meanings that exist when the object is understood only through the senses. By naming the mountains Cook has changed them; this alteration is emphasized in the rhyming of “nam[e]” (1), “came” (3), and “not the same” (4).
These two words placed beside each other help give the poem a flow that makes it much more pleasing to the ear, not only because of the assonance and consonance, but also because the words almost rhyme with each other. The second, third, and fourth lines of this stanza contain repetition. “Love,” “alter,” and “remove” are repeated to put emphasis on the points that he is trying to make. He is saying that if a person is really in love he or she would not have to make changes in their lover to make themself happy, and that love cannot be taken back. The second stanza of this poem is a quatrain with a rhyme scheme of cdcd.
Shakespeare's sonnets 3 and 12 are considered to be two of the most beautiful sonnets of him. These two sonnets are similar in some aspects and at the same time, they are contrasted in other ones. In this paper an attention is drawn to some of these similarities as well as differences. Shakespeare begins sonnet 3 by asking the young man to look in the mirror and tell the face he perceives (i.e. his reflection) that he should become conscious of the fact that it is time to create a beautiful child resembling the handsome father.