(Pg 937-Stanza 5-10) The narrator was very descriptive by comparing herself to a lonely tree. A tree represents "Strength" and protection. The female character in this poem doesn’t acknowledging that she is strong to recognize her mistakes. She is strong to endure being left alone even after all her mistakes in life. The central idea of the poem is " Loneliness and regret". Two emotions that will devour you completely. She acknowledges her past mistake allowing man to take her for granted. In the poem " Stopping by the woods on a rainy day" by Robert Frost. The unnamed male character explains the beauty of nature when being driven by his horse. He goes into detail with every description of the woods. The character in this story is planning …show more content…
1116, Stanza 5) " The darkest evening of the year" is symbolic for death. He will not see light in his eyes but darkness because he will not exist anymore in life. Just imagine how dark it is to die? Robert Frost really captures the idea of death. " What lips have my lips kissed" by Edna Millay. I totally enjoyed the description of she applied to her poem. She makes you feel like you’re the elder woman in the poem. You imagine yourself lonely and sad. You imagine how hard it hurts to be alone and no have a companion. To make mistakes and hurt yourself. Although, the character is sad she remains strong. "I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang to me A little while, that in me sings no more (Pg. 937, Stanza 10) This metaphor in her poem captures how this woman at one point of her life had it all. Lost the temporary love she had in her youth. " Summer sang to me. A little while, that in me sings no more" she explains that living life freely didn’t last forever. The metaphors used by both the poets captured the imagery of living in the main characters
The speaker states, “Thus in the winter stands a lonely tree” (9), the personification in this line is obvious. A tree cannot know about the birds that have come and gone and also cannot miss them when they are gone. The effect is to intensify the poem’s mood, which expresses loss and loneliness. The speaker also says, “I only know that summer sang in me/A little while, that in me sings no more” (13-14). The summer cannot sing in someone. The personification here is also connected to the lonely tree. The brief time the speaker’s men called on her was like summer for the tree, with the birds that sung on the branches. Yet, now that winter has come the birds have gone; leaving her all alone.
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien is a novel narrating a story of a man referred to as John Wade and his wife Kathleen. Wade is a politician of Minnesota. It is clear from the novel that he has just lost his election to the United States senate. The reason behind his loss is that all the facts about John have been revealed. There is solid evidence of John getting involved in a mass killing that happened in the Vietnamese village of Thuan Yen also referred to as My Lai. In this massacre, John is found responsible for the deaths of two people. On the other side, Kathleen was always on his side. Their relationship started back when they were college mates. One day Kathleen mysteriously disappears from their rented cottage in the north of Minnesota after John lost his election, a mass reach of water and the wilderness that separates the United States from Canada. Among all the events in the novel, the main theme that seems to appear most is the theme of the covered side of life of the people. Many things that take place in the novel are not openly seen, and the author develops this using some characters to reveal the concealed actions of the characters.
Life and death is the basic key in the poem “stopping by woods on a snowy evening.” Frost illustrates to the reader how this man took a moment to enjoy nature and life with no obligations to attain
I chose the poem "I Am Someone" by Annastasia Aressia. The author use simplistic words in this poem, which it is a multiple understanding meaning. Each reader can have an opinion on what it is being read, I will give details on the sentences that shows general meaning. Her choices of words were a few, but very mean full.
From mapping it is clear that the night represents death by meeting night, the narrator is saying that he encounters death. Thus, the idea of death is reinforced by the conceptual metaphor A LIFETIME IS A DAY and activates the general metaphor DEATH IS A JOURNEY TO A FINAL DESTINATION.
The second stanza immediately shows symbolism starting with the first few words. Line 10 begins with, “Once the renegade flesh was gone.” The use of the phrase, “renegade flesh” within this poem symbolizes the person who was causing the hurting. Renegade involves synonyms such as: traitor, deserter, and rebel, thus contributing to the meaning behind the phrase. Then throughout the rest of the stanza, the woman resumes talking about her time slowly going by until she begins to completely give up on
This is shown through the tone changing from being disappointed and critical to acceptance and appreciative. The speaker’s friend, who after listening to the speaker’s complaints, says that it seems like she was “a child who had been wanted” (line 12). This statement resonates with the speaker and slowly begins to change her thinking. This is apparent from the following line where the speaker states that “I took the wine against my lips as if my mouth were moving along that valved wall in my mother's body” (line 13 to line 15). The speaker is imagining her mother’s experience while creating her and giving birth to her. In the next several lines the speakers describe what she sees. She expresses that she can see her mother as “she was bearing down, and then breathing from the mask, and then bearing down, pressing me out into the world” (line 15 to line 18). The speaker can finally understand that to her mother the world and life she currently lived weren't enough for her. The imagery in the final lines of this poem list all the things that weren’t enough for the mother. They express that “the moon, the sun, Orion cartwheeling across the dark, not the earth, the sea” (line 19 to 21) none of those things matter to the mother. The only thing that matter was giving birth and having her child. Only then will she be satisfied with her life and
Not only does Robert Frost cherish nature, but he also has a love for darkness in this piece. The darkness signifies the loss of something and the dark soul. The speaker was a child in a home, but that home is no longer there. Robert Frost uses words such as night, dim, unlit place, and sad to talk about the darkness.
This poem was about very religious. In this poem she talks about her admiration of God and how she and all humans are humbled by God's creations. She says, "The higher on the glistening sun I gazed. Whose beams was shaded by the leafy tree; The more I looked, the ore I grew amazed, and softly said, 'What glory like to thee?' Soul of this world, this universe's eye, No wonder some made thee a deity; had I not better known, alas, the same had I". This quote means that a tree because of its beauty amazes her. Also, she is saying that the thing responsible for creating such a thing must just as beautiful if not the most beautiful on the earth.
The poem begins with the refrain, "Ah, look at all the lonely people." The same refrain is used to end the poem, making a complete circle. This creates, for the reader, a sense of loneliness about the poem as a whole. In the second stanza, Eleanor is introduced as a woman who cannot face the world as her self. She wears the “face that she keeps in a jar by the door.'; Literally this can be interpreted as makeup, but symbolically she is hiding her self.
"Stopping by Woods" The visible sign of the poet's preoccupation is the recurrent image of dark woods and trees. The world of the woods, a world offering perfect quiet and solitude, exists side by side with the realization that there is also another world, a world of people and social obligations. Both worlds have claims on the poet. He stops by woods on this "darkest evening of the year" to watch them "fill up with snow," and lingers so long that his "little horse" shakes his harness bells "to ask if there is some mistake." The poet is put in mind of the "promises" he has to keep, of the miles he still must travel. We are not told, however, that the call of social responsibility proves stronger than the attraction of the woods, which are "lovely" as well as "dark and deep"; the poet and his horse have not moved on at the poem's end. The dichotomy of the poet's obligations both to the woods and to a world of "promises"--the latter filtering like a barely heard echo through the almost hypnotic state induced by the woods and falling snow-is what gives this poem its singular interest.... The artfulness of "Stopping by Woods" consists in the way the two worlds are established and balanced. The poet is aware that the woods by which he is stopping belong to someone in the village; they are owned by the world of men. But at the same time they are his, the poet's woods, too, by virtue of what they mean to him in terms of emotion and private signification.
Another metaphor in this sonnet is the comparison of death to nightfall, "In me thou seest the twilight of such day" (568). He continues, "Which by and by black night doth take away, death's second self, that seals up all rest" (568). Shakespeare perfectly describes death as the fading of a bright day to a dark black night.
The poet is explaining the relationship and where she currently stands after the fact. Reading the line “There’s much that’s fine to see and her” can suggest that she is relieved to be broken up and she can start life over again. Although she’s not a part of the relationship, there was something more too why she was hurting. The final two lines of the poem can clarify more, “ Tis not love’s going to hurt my days, / But that it went in litter ways” (17-18). She is not hurt that she had a break up, she is trying express how it relates to spring and fall. As stated before, the spring time is a fresh, new start of the relationship while the fall is a downfall of the relationship. With that being said, the final two lines of the poem is stating that the relationship she had was more than just the average love, she had to watch her relationship deteriorate over time. As readers can see the spring come, then soon the fall time approach; all of what was bloomed during the spring has now died in the fall. Hence her relationship with her ex-lover is very similar to how the season’s
Robert Frost is an amazing poet that many admire today. He is an inspiration to many poets today. His themes and ideas are wonderful and are valued by many. His themes are plentiful however a main one used is the theme of nature. Frost uses nature to express his views as well as to make his poetry interesting and easy to imagine in your mind through the detail he supplies.
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” examines the relationship between the narrator and his surroundings. It appears as if the narrator admits a close personal connection with nature that can be viewed as irrational to the rest of the people. The narrator meets a horse for who he is sorry for being in the dark along. This horse being abandoned is without food and water. He is exhibiting his humanism and for his love for animals as well. A meaning behind the horse can be is that horse are domesticated animals. Being an animal, it is a part