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Birches
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'straighter darker trees,'
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less imaginative and more straightforward and blunt. metaphor created instantly: compares birches to his childhood and the straight dark trees are representative of adulthood.
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It represents the place he is at in his life now: filled with responsibility rather than freedom. He is aching for his past, where he was free and happy.
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wants it to be children's doings, not nature's. why? The desire to place a child in this scenario again shows the placement of his mind: he is actively hoping to see children living the life he hoped to live because he is at a place where he is tired of adult responsibilities.
first person pov: insight into frosts' thoughts. personal. intimate into his ideas and feelings. intimate poem, we see his innermost poems. anecdotal references.
Woodpile
Inner conflict - swiftly change decisions. 2nd to 3rd line: complete change in decision. Ellipsis = indecision, confused, intrigue of nature, mystery.
I paused and I said, ‘I will turn back from here. No. I will go on farther - and we shall see
Mentally, the narrator is a conflicting place. He is unsure of what he wants in life, possibly.
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OXYMORON(ic): irony: nature vs manmade: manmade items are useless in comparison to the power of nature and the function of nature. They are useless due to the human desire to always need to do more. - flaws in industrialization = romantic themes.
nature is eternal compared to humanity and that the 'decay' shows that manmade structures will be overtaken by nature showing that like the woodpile, humanity is useless compared to nature. The place of man within nature is temporary.
Mending Wall
'Something there is that doesn't love a wall,'
Syntactic inversion.syntactic inversion- syntax = grammar, order in which we use words in a sentence. Normal sentence: the man threw the ball - subject: the man, object: ball and the verb: threw. In this line, the syntax has been inverted. Something becomes subject - to create a sense of mystery. Different ways of writing - different ideas come up that are not traditions. Makes us wonder what something is.Link to tradition and custom. Suggest how the narrator wants to break traditions already. Mysterious tone
Barriers have no place in an inclusive society - we either adhere to traditions which keep us apart or break them apart to be free and vulnerable with each other.
'Frozen ground swell'
Compound words.represents: a natural external force/nature. emphasises that nature knows no boundaries. where humans see boundaries, nature does not (respect boundaries). Nature's place is to be free, it is to help man see the impracticalities of their barrier making mindset.
the Road not taken
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood,and I, I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.
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Repetition of I = one person: we are in this, making decisions, ourselves. Individualism.
Has his choice made all the difference of his interpretation of that choice? FICTIONALISING OUR LIVE CHOICES
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Repetition of I = epizeuxis. Significance of his independent epiphany. Sense of achievement because he realises nothing makes all the difference. Ironic. Ironic that there is no difference and that is what makes all the difference.
Link to place: our place in society, our faith in the place we have ended up in, is all determined by what we believed, not by actual facts, as seen through the fictionalisation of our lives.
It made all the difference in his life because he believes it has made all the difference in his life. While the difference is not specified as positive or negative, this is one reading. It matters to him.
We believe all our choices make sense in the end, but do they? Or does that not even matter? Does it just matter that we believe it makes sense in the end? FICTIONALISING LIFE
He made the effort to try and choose the non-conformist idea - that is what matters to him. Less important whether it made a difference or not, important because he/she believes it did.
Trying to give meaning even though he/we will never know if or how it made the difference. Ironic: humans want to feel as if we are making the difference if not life is futile. We use hindsight to justify that everything happens for a reason, but we will never really know.
HUMAN CONDITION: We should not be stuck on what ifs, live n moment and be content. Regret and doubt choices we make → link to title: always reflects on our focus on things we never do than what we got to do. LINK TO DIDACTIC NATURE OF POEM.
After Apple Picking
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He is considering how he will be received in heaven: nearing death → existential questions are brought out.
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Winter is a symbol for the time plants die, animals hibernate. Connotes death with the word winter. Now that he has lost hope, the next step seems to be death
Death: mentally, he is in the Hereafter; preparing for his death and not really absorbed in his real like's work anymore.
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Out Out
Link to place: we have no place for emotion anymore in this fast paced, economically driven value. we allow our worth to be determined by the value of money we make, mixing values and value up.
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the boy is useless after his death because he cannot work/build. pun. comment on society. the way we use humans as disposable. only worth the work you can do. they are useless once they cannot work. - in this work force. link to apple picking.
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