The poet is suggesting that the natural world has so much more to offer than the one he is currently enduring. The drive into the country has made him realize he is more comfortable surrounded by nature. Although through stanza three he is becoming emerged in the scene in which he goes from the naturalism to different thoughts. “The miles yet to go” reveals a tone of melancholic regret. 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.
Making the mood of the poem depressing, Frost is able to get his point across that eventually everything will die. Frost uses word choice to discuss how short life is. He stresses that time flies by without knowing, “But only so an hour./So dawn goes down to day (4,7). Frost discusses that life may only last for an hour, or for a day. By using this word choice, he exemplifies that life is short and very precious.
Keats in his poem “Ode to a Nightingale” uses precise diction to illustrate his morbid view on the body, seeing it as a decaying shell while in Whitman celebrates the body in “I Sing the Body Electric” through the use of repetition. Keats composed “Ode to a Nightingale” in 1819, shortly before his brother Tom died from tuberculosis with the realization that he in all likelihood had the infection and would suffer the same fate as his brother. The sorrowful acceptance of his death is evident in “Ode to a Nightingale”. The entire poem (except for the eighth line) is written in iambic pentameter. Most of the lines are 10 syllables long and each line there is an alternating use of stressed and unaccented syllables.
“shh” is often used to demand silence, so this alliteration creates an image of the whole village being silent and nervous as the soldiers set out for battle. The use of punctuation also has an effect on the overall sound of the poem. The first stanza uses very little punctuation to make it run on like a calm and soothing river, which helps emphasize the silence before the storm, where birds are singing, the sun is rising from the horizon, and a gentle breeze is passing through the village. During the last stanza, the admiring tone and calm mood has changed, as all that is left is destruction, and all the beauty of the village and everywhere around it is now gone. The use of more punctuation is done to emphasize the harsher tone, as there is not a calm flow to the stanza
Edgar Allen Poe demonstrates in his written works of “Lenore”, “Annabel Lee”, and “To Helen” an element that seemingly attempts to give the reader exceptional emotional sadness. Poe does this by telling the poem in a point of view where a man tells the story of the death or remembrance of a young love or woman. He also puts a sense of gloom in each of his poems. This allows for the reader to create a mental image if the setting, without him having to directly point it out. As well, the gloominess of his poetry could also be due to his longing effect of sadness that he attempts to express.
A feeling of desolation was presented here when Hurst implied that summer was born with great promise that eventually evanesced without being fulfilled. Another emotion stirred up by the two phrases was a slow passage of time that seemed to go on forever. This was revealed by seasons that had ended without the next one coming. When James Hurst wrote the starting paragraphs of his short stories, he added in death. "Graveyard flowers who spoke softly of the names of the dead," written in "The Scarlet Ibis," hinted that there was a nearby graveyard filled with deadly air.
Harwood identifies memory as a key component of human experiences through the use of ‘The Violets’ as an extended metaphor to trigger the composer’s personal recollections. Traditionally associated with death and mourning, the imagery of the “frail melancholy flowers” are alliterated and personified to emulate Harwood’s connection to the past and the loss of childhood joyfulness. This is enhanced by the juxtaposition of “ashes and loam”, the flowers are paradoxically growing among fertile and barren soil, relating to the past thriving through memories and the present time. The structural indentation indicating time shifts throughout Harwood’s flashbacks create a realm of nostalgia and is reinforced by the change in verbal tense “I kneel to pick” and “be comforted”, it accentuates our understanding of the evocativeness of the recalling of memories. The parents
And the rain continues of the roof With such a sound of gently pitying laughter. Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (p. 297) Imagery: I picture it as being by the creek side, gazing towards an old run down wood bridge, where slats of wood are falling off into the water below, then off to the right is a small clearing with
He does so to keep her his forever, reliving his story to justify his actions and preserve the moment of her death. And while his portrayal of the situation is designed to show that his actions are justified, it becomes apparent that he is not so certain of this. In this poem Browning offers a complex psychological study of an insane man who uses reason and argument to explain and make sense of his actions. The poem opens by setting the scene — it is raining, and a storm is raging outside — and with it establishes the tone of the action that follows. The storm is described in simple, direct language: it sets in early, it tears down tree limbs, and its force disturbs the calmness of the lake.
This poem also represents death by stating that nothing could stay forever. On a Tree Fallen Across the Road The poem on “a tree fallen across the road” conveys a theme of a person overcoming there problems or obstacles thrown at them. We can see this in the first stanza where it states “the tree the tempest with a crash of wood throws down in front of us” this is clearly evident that an obstacle has crashed down in front of them. “Tree” is a metaphor that represents the problem or issue. Acceptance The theme of the poem acceptance is accepting thing that you cannot control such as the sky becoming dark or knowing that everyone in the world is going to die eventually.