The descriptive language used in the second stanza assumes a certain brilliance when the poem reflects a positive tone when he says “the wide wide heavens!” He uses a sense of heightened colour when describing the nature surrounding him, e.g. “purple heath flowers!” Coleridge realises toward the end of the imaginative journey that nature is all around us for those who have the desire, passion and determination to search for it. Conversational tone is also conveyed in ‘Frost at Midnight’. Frost at Midnight is in an secluded cottage during the stillness of night. “The frost performs its secret ministry” at the start of the first stanza implies personification used to establish the stunning silence of nature and the frost falling outside.
Country in the tile connotes the serenity and peaceful beauty found in it that soothes the viewer. In this poem, the physical journey – a drive in the country, is a catalyst for reflection first on the calmness and sureness of the natural world, and then, dramatically, on death and hopelessness. The poem probably reflects Skrzynecki’s experience of living and working in northern NSW and he appears to be unhappy in this environment. The poet takes a trip to the country and this trip denotes a physical journey as an escape from the reality of life. This physical journey in the country acts as a temporary escape from reality.
The over all feel throughout the poem is a wonderful contrast to other of Robert Frost’s poems, which is another thing I particularly enjoyed. The theme through the poem is the realization that death is so quick and so sudden, and another is that people treat human life like it is worthless. This statement is attributed to the end when the doctors know they cannot save his life, then just shrug it off like nothing happened and continue on their day. The poem is mostly of the snarling buzz saw and the boys basically acceptance that he is going to die. He doesn’t want to go to the doctors because he wants to maintain dignity through his dead body by being buried with both hands.
The people look forward what they did or what they will do, no matter how it was or how it will be. In fact, this poem is talking about the boy who broke up with his love, and he felt sad. I said that because the first line told us “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” It makes the readers sorrowful and feels miserable. The speaker’s constant juxtaposition of past and present illustrate his inability to come to terms with his present isolated state. As in the rest of the poem, is simple and the point, suggesting the sincerity of the speaker’s emotions.
This concept is demonstrated in Robert Frost’s poem ‘Stopping by the woods on a Snowy evening’. The text explores the two moral choices through the persona’s existential crisis; the contemplation of continuing with life, or suicide. During the persona’s “darkest evening of the year” use of emotive language suggests that not only the evening is dark, but also his thoughts and perceptions of life. “But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” The anaphora of ‘and miles to go’ suggests that life is endless and meaningless. It suggests that life is endless through the repetition of ‘and’.
The First Snowfall The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell is a short poem that tells of this man who watches the snowfall and is thinking about his dead child. He is watching by the window and is grasping meaning from the snow with every snowflake that fell. He then realizes that everything is not forever like how snow wil melt away at some point. In the poem The First Snowfall , James Russell Lowell gives meaning to the snowfall by using similies to make comparasins, and he used symbolism and vivid imagery to convey emotions. The meaning of the story and its relation to the snowfall are brought out with Lowell's use of similies to make comparasins to snow.
This tells readers that he believes that poetry must come from within you, deep down. Keats tries to overcome the bleakness of the subject of death by writing that he will try and find love. When you find love, you start to venture beyond yourself. One, who truly has faith in something, can surely accomplish it. Perhaps both Keats and Longfellow didn’t have enough faith in what they were trying to do before they died.
Frost was extremely emphatic on the simplicity of this poem, both in meaning and format. The poem can be seen to be about many things, but without argument one can say that it is about someone who has come to a fork in the road. This can be seen in the first two lines. The speaker acknowledges that he “could not travel both” as he attempts to peer down the road as far as possible to see what it will be like but it disappears in the horizon “where it bent in the undergrowth”(line 5). The speaker considers each road and comes to the conclusion that “the passing there/had worn them really out the same” (line 9/10).
The poem, “Death, be not proud” by John Donne does interpret death to be a part of life. The uses of words are very symbolic pertaining to what the narrator is trying to convey to the reader and how he feels about death. For example, “And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery” (Donne, pg 457). This illustrates how the good people will die young and does reveal a religious view when the word soul was used because everyone does not believe in souls. It is clear that the meaning in this poem presents the narrator to not be afraid of death in any way shape or form because it is similar when someone goes to sleep.
In the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, Robert Frost is able to convey the quiet beauty in nature through his imagery and descriptive writing of the quiet woods. Using his carefully selected descriptions, Frost is able to bring the reader into the role of the traveler, and express what the traveler is seeing and feeling. The third stanza of the poem is a great example of this use of imagery, Frost writes, “He gives his harness bells a shake/ To ask if there is some mistake. / The only other sound's the sweep/ Of the easy wind and downy flake” (8-11). In this quote, Frost is able to bring to life the quiet beauty of a snowfall by describing the sound of the soft hush that falling snow creates.