Old Age in An Old Man's Winter Night and Follower This poem has a very direct title which intices the audience to find out more and is very similar to that of a Hollywood movie and uses plain language. From the 1st line we can see the boy’s possessiveness of his father from the words “My” we also know it is referring to the past from the tense of the word “worked” we also find out that he works on a farm. In the next 3 lines we can see the poets admiration for his father by the way he talks about the size of the man “globed like a full sail strung” and his strength. We see that his father was a real expert at his job by the way he can control horses with his tongue, heaneys intention was to show us the mans expertise and how he was in full control, it also shows us how hard the horses were working for him. In the next stanza on the 1st line Heaney calls his father “an expert” then pauses for affect to let it sink in, this is to show us the mans power and also the pure admiration from his son. In the next 2 lines we are again told about how good he was at his job “sod rolled over without breaking” the language which is used almost makes it seem effortless for the man. In the next stansa we see Heaneys use of enjanment with a run on line “Turned around – And back into the land” which reflects the movement of the plough. In the 3rd line we can see his father “narrowed and angled at the ground” using only his skill, not instruments, this makes him appear very wise and we can see that the boy is once again admiring his skills. In the next stansa we can see how the boy is clumsy in comparison to his father “I stumbled in his hobnailed wake” we also see his clumsiness from the word “fell” in the... ... middle of paper ... ...the old man and his quality of life. After reading both poems we are given 2 different views on old age by 2 different poets. In Robert Frosts a lot of pity is felt for the old age and the poet seems to be very concerned about the quality of life being lived by the old man, he sympathises with the loneliness and feels sorry for the old man. Heaney seems to have a quite a different view on old age and we almost feel as if he is annoyed at his father for not being able to care for himself now, he is frustrated that the man whom he always looked up to has now become frail and now follows him around opposed to when he was a child. Out of the 2 poems I prefer Robert Frosts “An Old Mans Winter Night” as I believe that it has much more meaning to it and it really gets into the life of the old man and gets sympathy from the reader and gets them involved.
Both poems share many things in common. The first being the obvious theme of major decision making and choosing the best path, so that life doesn't pass you by. Blanche obviously had Robert Frost's famous poem sitting beside her when she wrote her own rendition of the poem 21 years after Frost's death. Most of the stanzas in each poem match up with one another. Similar words are used as well, such as in the first stanza of each poem "and be one traveler, long I stood"(Frost), and "and mulling it over, long she stood."(Blanche) Both of these lines are undoubtedly similar, and they are both part of a five line stanza that rhymes the ending words of two lines and three lines to each other.
that ll the power was contained in himself. So he did a very clever thing, he took
he sees his father as strict, but not overly demanding. He seems to begin to
As the high priest’s son he himself wanted to become a good priest but to become one he had to look at the place of gods with his own eyes.
father’s childhood, and later in the poem we learn that this contemplation is more specifically
...tive outlook on things, he shows his emotional strength to handle things in an adult manner.
How does he show that he's an expert, that he has gained expertise in this
The poem is written in the father’s point of view; this gives insight of the father’s character and
His father was amazed at the ease his son was able to absorb the classical
to fire an employee. So, Howard was now unemployed himself. Howard decides to make a
But, as the boy begins to specify a detailed episode of which he knew too much about to be a
Robert Frost and Edgar Allen Poe two amazing poets, who created many well written poems, for instance “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”, by Robert Frost and “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. These two poems have many differences and similarities between them. A big difference between Frost and Poe is there back ground but this is also a similarity, how they took their real life situations and turned them into poetry. Then, their life situations made their tone in “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “The Raven” completely different. But in these two poems there is a meaning behind them and the meanings are similar. Finally, a difference and similarity
greatly pained at the loss of his father. It is also clear that he is
The two poems when compared, exhibit a shared theme. That theme is only you can truly and completely care about yourself. In Robert Frost’s poem, the boy died a tragic death, but no one cared. “Since they were not the one dead, they turned to their affairs.” In correlation, the man in Crane’s poem is also rejected the attention and care he desired. He told the Universe that he existed, but the
The only strong comparison between the poets, in terms of structure and technique, is that the meaning of their poems run much deeper then the specific words on a page. Even this can come as a contrast when looking at these three poems. “Home Burial,” by Frost is a fairly straightforward poem, written in dialogue, with the writer working as the narrator. The poem is about a married couple dealing wi...