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Robert Frost Themes (alt and right click to change things) (Death ("…
Robert Frost Themes (alt and right click to change things)
Trees/Nature
An Encounter
Device: Imagery Example:"A swamp of cedar" Analysis: This provides a picture in the reader's head. This sets the scene.
Example: "A barkless spectre. He had halted too," Analysis:"A barkless spectre. He had halted too,"
Example:"And tell me where you're off for—Montreal?" Device: Irony Analysis: This is the speaker being cynical about the fact that technology is rapidly increasing and destroying nature. This is reflecting how he can simply speak to someone from so far away.
Tone/Mood: stubborn
Birches
Example: "I like to think some boy's been swinging them." Metaphor Analysis: This shows how the speaker is very reflective on his past and how he swung on birches.
Tone/Mood: hopeful
Example: "With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm" Analysis: This goes into nature because Frost always has a recurring theme of humans not being as powerful as nature.
Example: "Broken across it, and one eye is weeping" Analysis: This exemplifies how the branch of a birch tree is broken due to an ice storm and not from a child swinging on it.
The Wood-Pile
Example: "The wood was gray and the bark warping off it" Analysis: This was to portray the age of the wood and that it can no longer be used. This reflects beauty and aging. Aging makes beauty go away.
Example: Analysis:
Poetic Device: Imagery Example: "It was a cord of maple, cut and split" Analysis: This was to put in more surprise. The speaker found the wood to be maple which is a more expensive wood.
Tone/mood:curiosity
Two Look at Two
Poetic Device: imagery Example: "A little further up the mountain side " Analysis: This imagery was used to describe how large the problem was to them.
Poetic Device: metaphor Example:"Had made them certain earth returned their love. " Analysis: The two of them coming back and falling in love was to tie in the entire poem.
Tone/Mood: contemplative
Poetic Device: imagery Example: "With thoughts of a path back, how rough it was" Analysis: The path being seen as rough was rather symbolic on how they would be at a rough journey going through.
Gathering Leaves
Stopping by Woods on a snowing evening
The Sound of Trees
Reflecting
"Mowing"
Tone/mood: Calm
Example:"And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground." Device: symbolism Analysis: The scythe symbolizes death which is what the poem is about.
Example:"And that was why it whispered and did not speak." Device: Symbolism Analysis: This was a death reference with it not speaking back
Example: "My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make." Device: Imagery Analysis: This was to further symbolize death which the speaker was mentioning a lot.
"The Road Not Taken'
Example: "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood," device: imagery Analysis: This imagery sets the mood of how he is always wondering about the other side and which choice to make.
Example: "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" Analysis:Frost was being reflective and wishing he could travel both paths
Example: "And sorry I could not travel both" Analysis: This was the narrator being reflective and rather feeling some regret on the road, or choice, he took. He acknowledges that he cannot know what would have happened if he went for the other choice.
Tone/mood: Reflective
An Unstamped Letter in our Rural Letter box
Tone/Mood: Hopeful
Example: "You have had your advantages." Device: assertive diction Analysis: The homeless person was using that he was more intelligent and the farmer didn't deserve what he had.
Poetic Device:assertive diction Example: "Lest having wasted precious heat" Analysis: This was the homeless person further assuring that he was not deserving of what the farmer had.
Poetic Device: imagery Example: "Who used your pasture for a camp." Analysis: The tramp was telling the farmer he was there and was never apologizing for staying there. This was to further explain that he feels as if the farmer has too many luxuries.
Gathering Leaves
Example: "Like rabbit and deer" Device: simile. Analysis: This was to express how fast he was gathering the leaves on the ground.
Example: "But the mountains I raise" Device: Imagery Analysis: This was to show how much work the speaker has done. The mountains are the leaves.
Tone/Mood: calm
Example: "Next to nothing for weight," Device: Hyperbole Analysis: He has a huge pile of leaves that weigh very little. This symbolizes that even though he has done a lot, it does not seem like he does.
Birches
Mending wall
Death of a hired man
Two look at Two
Death
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Poetic Device:Blank Verse
Example: And miles to go before I sleep,
Analysis: He is far away from death, yet he is still thinking of it
Poetic Device: Symbolism
Example: Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.
Analysis:It is winter and Winter symbolizes death. Also since its evening it can also symbolize death as the day is coming to an end (death)
Poetic Device:Symbolism
Example: Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though;
Analysis:This is deaths woods. Death is in the village because he is focusing on someone or something.
Tone/Mood: Thoughtful(reflective)
"After Apple-Picking"
Poetic Device: Symbolism
Example: My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still.
Analysis:The Imagery of the ladders symbolize the stairs to heaven which can symbolize his death
Poetic Device: Symbolism
Example: Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples; I am drowsing off.
Analysis: Winter symbolizes the death of something since winter is the last season and it brings death, unlike spring which brings life. This speaker is drowsing off which can symbolize his call to death
Tone/Mood: Worried
Poetic Device: Symbolism
Example: The woodchuck could say whether its like his Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, Or just some human sleep.
Analysis: Woodchucks hibernate and hibernation is a long slumber that is very similar to death. The woodchuck can only know if the man wants to nap or "hibernate"(death).
Home Burial
Poetic Device: Blank Verse
Example: If you had any feelings, you that dug With your own hand -- how could you? -- his little grave;
Analysis: Both have two different grieving methods over their lost son
Poetic Device:Juxtaposition
Example: You could sit there with the stains on your shoes Of the fresh earth from your own baby's grave
Analysis: Their son is dead and they still use the word 'fresh dirt' to describe the soil. This shows juxtaposition because the soil is fresh, new but the son IN the soil is old, dead.
Tone/Mood: Grim
Poetic Device: Symbolism
Example:What had how long it takes a birch to rot
To do with what was in the darkened parlour?
Analysis: Frosts poem, Birches symbolizes the youth of a person. Birch trees in this poem also has the same meaning. He is asking how long is takes for childhood to end.
Death of a Hired Man
Poetic Device: Symbolism
Example:In winter he comes back to us. I'm done."
Analysis: Winter Symbolizes death. The 'I'm Done' can also symbolize death as you are 'done living'
Poetic Device: Symbolism
Example:He said he'd come to ditch the meadow for me."
Analysis: A meadow is a serene, peaceful place. A ditch can be many things but in this case it means death. Silo came to Mary to be buried in a Meadow
Tone/Mood: Empathetic
Poetic Device: Symbolism
Example: I'll sit and see if that small sailing cloud Will hit or miss the moon."
Analysis: The sailing cloud symbolizes silos soul. If he hits the moon,which symbolizes a heavenly body, he would die. the cloud (his soul) did end up hitting the moon(heaven) and it was revealed that he died shortly after
The Black cottage
Poetic Device: Imagery
Example: Fresh painted by the shower a velvet black.
Analysis: The color black usual has a dark connotation and in this case it symbolizes and hints death
Poetic Device: Symbolism
Example: Among tar-banded ancient cherry trees,
Analysis: Tar is a sticky dark substance that can cause death if a living thing were to get stuck in it. Cherries are coated by the tar which hides the sweetness of the fruit and only shows death.
tone/mood: Grim
Poetic Device: Symbolism
Example: We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
Analysis: This symbolizes the death of the two people in the poem. The sunsets blaze represents the 'light at the end of the tunnel' and them rising is them going to that light
The Sound of Trees
Poetic Device: Blank Verse
Example: We suffer them by the day Till we lose all measure of pace,
Analysis: The speaker is suffering and he mentions that he will suffer until there is no pace(life). He is being suicidal.
Poetic Device: Imagery
Example:My feet tug at the floor And my head sways to my shoulder
Analysis: The Speaker commits suicide by hanging since his 'head sways to his shoulder'
Tone/Mood: Wretched
Poetic Device: Blank Verse
Example: But I shall be gone.
Analysis: Simply means that he isn't around because he is dead.
There are Roughly Zones
Out,Out
Soldier
Mowing
Birches
Restriction/Limitation/Separation
Home Burial
Mending Wall
Poetic Device:Juxtaposition
Example: He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Analysis: Neighbors usually are close to each other, but the fact that he wants a fence contradicts to what he is saying cause separation doesn't make you a better neighbor.
Poetic Device: Metaphor
Example:He is all pine and I am apple orchard.My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines
Analysis:Both aren't able to connect to each other.
They are compared to two very different objects and enforces that both stay separated from each other and aren't able to connect
Poetic Device: Imagery
Example: And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
Analysis: The wall is separating two people. It is preventing them to merge or be friends.
Tone/mood: Ambivalent
The Ax-Helve
Poetic Device: Blank Verse
Example:A Frenchman couldn't get his human rating!
Analysis: There is a separation between the French-Canadians and the Americans. The speaker thinks that he is better than the Canadian by having a better 'human rating' which shows that he views the Canadian as less than and not equal.
Poetic Device:Blank Verse
Example: “Made on machine,' he said, plowing the grain With a thick thumbnail
Analysis: There is also a separation between man made and industrial made items
Tone/Mood: Suspicious
Poetic Device: Personification
Example: I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me.
Analysis: There is a restriction and separation between human and nature. Nature is trying to restrict the man from doing any more damage and the man wants to do more damage, showing the separation/divide between humans and nature
There are Roughly Zones
Humans Vs Nature
An Encounter
Birches
Mending Wall
There are Roughly Zones
Poetic Device: Symbolism
Example: There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed.
Analysis: There a restrictions/limits made for every living thing but humans don't obey these restrictions, they constantly go against nature
Poetic Device: Blank Verse
Example: But if it is destined never again to grow, It can blame this limitless trait in the hearts of men.
Analysis: The limitless trait is mans ambition to expand and that they are too greedy to know limitations for for that they constantly go against nature.
Poetic Device: Rhyme
Example: What comes over a man, is it soul or mind That to no limits and bounds he can stay confined?
Analysis: Men have no boundaries. They wanted to bring a peach tree to the North but humans have no boundaries on where not to go and what not to bring. They are fighting against nature this way
Tone/Mood: Cynical
Greed/Ambition
Out, Out
Poetic Device: Juxtaposition Example:Since he was old enough to know, big boy
Doing a man’s work, though a child at heart— Analysis: The Child is doing a mens job and he is aware of it. That shows how ambitious he is to earn money and also shows how greedy he is cause he wants to earn money
Tone/Mood: Cynical
Poetic Device: Blank Verse Example: No more to build on there. And they, since they. Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.
Analysis: The Boys Co-workers doesn't care about his death. They only care about their affairs and the money they make which is greedy.
Poetic Device: Blank Verse
Example: To please the boy by giving him the half hour
That a boy counts so much when saved from work. Analysis: The boy is working for money for half pay. Instead of enjoying childhood he is earning money which is greedy. Plus he is saving money not spending it which is also greedy
A Soldier
Tone/Mood: Anger.
Poetic Device: Symbolism Example: See nothing worthy to have been its mark,It is because like men we look too near, Analysis: Men look for titles and 'marks', to find and make a purpose in their lives even if they die in the end.
Poetic Device:Imagery Example: The curve of earth, and striking, break their own; They make us cringe for metal-point on stone.
Analysis: Like the previous quote, war is a greedy and ambitious thing and you don't care about the destruction of Earth and others cause all you want is to live and earn a title.
Poetic Device: Imagery Example: And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone. Analysis: War in general is a greedy thing. You kill others so you can save yourself, not caring for the spirit of others and only seeing them as a 'target'
The Cow in Apple Time
Tone/Mood: Tone/Mood: Cynical
Poetic Device: Imagery Example: "She runs from tree to tree where lie and sweeten." Analysis: The Cow is actively going from each tree eating a mass quantity of apples. This is greed because it would have been fine if she ate like one apple or two, but the amount she ate was greedy
Poetic Device: Imagery Example: "The windfalls spiked with stubble and worm-eaten." Analysis: This quote shows that there is a huge consequence in eating the apples. Like all things, those apples are also not worth eating, but the cow as greedy as she is, ate them anyways.
Poetic Device: Imagery Example: "Her face is flecked with pomace and she drools" Analysis: The description of her face is rather grotesque because that is how Robert Frost thinks of greed. Those whom are too involved in their own greed neglect other personal necessities.
There are Roughly Zones