The Life and Influence of Robert Frost
The Life and Influence of Robert Lee Frost Poet Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California, to Isabelle Moodie Frost and William Prescott Frost. William Frost, a Harvard-educated journalist, worked for a San Francisco newspaper and was a delegate to Democratic National Convention of 1880. His poor health, violence, drinking, and gambling upset any possibility of family stability. Isabelle Frost, daughter of a Scottish sea captain, moved to America at age twelve. She was a follower of the Swedenborgian religion and instructed Frost in its beliefs. Frost received much of his early education at home, as his mother read aloud from the works of Shakespeare, Poe, Emerson, and Wordsworth. (Bloom 12) After his father's death from tuberculosis in 1885, Frost moved with his mother and sister to New England, where they settled in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Attending Lawrence High School, Frost published several poems in the school magazine and was named class poet. He also played right end on the school's football team. (Cox 148) He graduated in 1892, sharing Valedictorian honors with Elinor White, to whom he later became engaged. (Bloom 12) Though he passed Harvard's entrance exams, Frost lacked the money needed to attend the school. He instead attended Dartmouth College, but left after less than a semester, and pursued a variety of jobs, including
"A Case of Murder" by "Vernon Scannel" is a poem which deals with a very unusual topic; the murder of a cat by a nine year old boy. The poet brings the poem alive by using different writing techniques e.g. line lengths
"A Case of murder" by Vernon Scannel Critical response to literature by Gregor Baird "A Case of Murder" by "Vernon Scannel" is a poem which deals with a very unusual topic; the murder of a cat by a nine year old boy. The poet brings the poem alive by using different writing techniques e.g. line lengths, no rhyme or pattern this holds my attention more and stops the rhyme merge into one tone. He also uses writing techniques such as Repetition, Figurative language, structure & rhyme. In the poem the boy has been left with a cat in a basement flat and the cat is just sitting buzzing away. This really annoys the boy and the hatred that has gathered up in the boy. This results in the boy hitting the cat then prodding the cat then crushing the cat in between the door. In result to this the boy cries and decides to get a shovel from the cupboard under the stairs and he shovels the cat into the cupboard under the stairs. Although the cat is dead he thinks the cat is growing in the cupboard and the cupboard is going to split. The boy in the poem is very annoyed about the cat "He hated that cat; he watched it sit a buzzing machine of soft black stuff" because the cat gets all the attention and he is left out, therefore the boy is jealous of the cat. From the poem it tells us that the boy is insecure with his parents "He was only nine, not old enough to be left alone in a basement
Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore being an active politician of his age has written numerous literary works on his ideologies about the social, economic, and political situation of India.
POLITICAL VALUES: Tagore being an active politician of his age has written numerous literary works on his ideologies about the social, economic, and political situation of India. He seeks the re-establishment and reconstruction of the old ideas and ideologies and seeks new ones as well. Tagore was not keen for the attainment of political freedom. He believed that unless there is not an 'atmasakti' in us, we cannot be worthy of freedom. Tagore believed that spiritual liberation was an integral part in the attainment of political and social liberation. Emphasizing on this idea of atmasakti, he said that in order to regain atmasakti, regeneration of rural society was essential. He made an effort in forming a rural society where there will be a social hierarchy and at the top of the hierarchy, there will be a Samajpati through whom the people would be able to maintain contact with everybody in society. He said that regeneration of rural society was possible by encouraging yatras, folk-songs and organizing village fairs. We can see that he establishes this idea in his play, 'The Post-office'. Here he presents an ideal village scenario where the King is the Samajpati through whom the villagers are connected. He wanted self-sufficiency of the villages like old times. Though, his attempts failed in forming this kind of a society. Defending his idea of a hierarchical state he
Allama Iqbals idea of the modern man presented in his poem Modern Man also comparing it to the poem God and Man.
Submitted by: Anam Raheel Semester V Submitted to: Ms. Qudsia Sajjad Course title: Allama Iqbal (poetry) Iqbal's idea of the modern man presented in his poem "Modern Man" also comparing it to the poem "God and Man". Modern Man LOVE fled, Mind stung him like a snake; he could not Force it to vision's will. He tracked the orbits of the stars, yet could not Travel his own thoughts' world; Entangled in the labyrinth of his science Lost count of good and ill; Took captive the sun's rays, and yet no sunrise On life's thick night unfurled. Allama Iqbal can be regarded as one of the poets who simply did not fix his ideas and works on certain themes but had always kept the variety of goals and discussions in front of him. He talked of almost everything ranging from God, man, nature, religion etc and in his poem "Modern Man" we see him defining the man in the new world he has created around himself. This has been compared with the poem "God and Man", where Iqbal shows both the God and the man conversing and answering each other. It is clear how evolution takes place in every age and every stage of human life. Every civilization improves and progresses and thinks itself better than the past one. Hence through all these times progress is achieved, new ideas adopted, unknown things discovered therefore modernity is seen through all the existing times. Here we see Iqbal
Explore the presentation of love and hate in the poems of Robert Browning
Explore the presentation of love and hate in the poems of Robert Browning The recurring themes of love and hate are prominent in many of Browning's poems, and are in many cases evidently the inspiration for the stories and characters that he creates within his poetry. Browning explores the idea that hate is a consequence of love and the feelings associated with it - for example, in My Last Duchess, the Duke's love for the Duchess fuels his need for control over her, which eventually grows into hate. The Laboratory tells the tale of a woman who has become so consumed by jealousy after her husband has become enamoured with her rivals, Elise and Pauline, that she has visited an alchemist in order to create a poison that would kill both of them without sparing any of the pain of death. Browning carefully structured this poem in order to emphasise the woman's desire for perfection and attention to detail - there is an even number of four-line stanzas with a constant rhyme scheme; the structure is as carefully plotted as the main character's lethal plan. Also, even though the main character is intent on mercilessly killing two people, Browning portrays her as quite a likeable character: "That in the mortar - you call it a gum?/Ah, the brave tree whence such gold oozing come!", her childlike enthusiasm and inquisitiveness makes her endearing and even identifiable with; it's
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Beginning with a close analysis of the extract, consider the view that the gothic elements provide some of the poem's finest moments.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner Beginning with a close analysis of the extract, consider the view that the gothic elements provide some of the poem's finest moments. Charles Tomlinson scrutinises the Rime of the Ancient Mariner 'as a refined tale of terror, and exercise in poetic heightening of the Gothic...at a deeper and more psychological level'. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner has been acclaimed to be one of many original works of Gothic literature along side Horace Walpole's novel 'The Castle of Otranto', because of its supernatural, horrific and romantic elements that are brought together within its narrative and language. The Mariner's killing of the albatross, the terrifying death of his shipmates, and the grotesque descriptions of the supernatural spirits are chief gothic mediums in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner that perhaps intend to develop the story. From the very first lines of the extract in Chapter 4 it is coherent that as the Ancient Mariner drifts in the ocean the natural world becomes more threatening with supernatural and uncanny facets. There is a sense of isolation and lost emphasised by the repetition; 'Alone, alone, all, all alone' that also invokes fear and suspense. This sense of isolation relates to earlier periods whereby the sailors were stranded under the hot burning sun, whilst now his surroundings include the ocean, and the "rotting" creatures
Write about ways Hardy presents the Titanic disaster in the Convergence of the Twain.
Write about ways Hardy presents the titanic disaster in the ‘Convergence of the Twain’. In the ‘Convergence of the Twain’ Hardy displays the idea of two inanimate objects coming together, while creating the idea that the Titanic disaster was inevitable and meant to happen. To begin with, the idea of the disaster being inevitable is shown in ‘the convergence’ when Hardy describes the iceberg as being “prepared for by a sinister mate”. The use of the adjective ‘prepared’ could be inferred that this disaster has been constructed beforehand by an omniscient being, and it was unavoidable. Another way the disaster is presented is through the personification of the iceberg, ‘sinister mate’. We get the impression that this inoperative substance is perhaps part of a matched pair, the other being the Titanic. Another essential point in which hardy displays the titanic in the ‘convergence’ is with the juxtaposing terms ‘jewels’ and ‘black’, to demonstrate the impact that the iceberg had on the Titanic. This could also illustrate that something so precious and glamourous was destroyed and changed in an instant due to the collision. More importantly, it suggests that the jewels weren’t as important as they were made out to be, since they can just convert into something meaningless in a matter of seconds. One more way Hardy presents the Titanic
Write about the ways that Coleridge tells the story in Part 7 of The Ancient Mariner.
LYDIA GEORGE Write about the ways that Coleridge tells the story in Part 7 in the poem? Coleridge uses several different ways to tell the story in Part 7 of ‘The Ancient Mariner’. He uses the various leit motifs, the setting, characters and the structure to develop and conclude the narrative. Here I will explore these elements and analyse the way they influence the reader’s understanding of the ballad. In the final Part, Coleridge reveals the conclusive moral of the Mariners story to reader and Wedding Guest; that to love God and be loved, you must love all of God’s creatures. ‘He prayeth best, who loveth best/All things both great and small’ the enjambment of these lines shows the extent and continuity of Gods’ love and also show that the Mariner has recognised his sin, an act against nature, and served penance. Having learned the Mariners story The Wedding- Guest’s order is never restored; we are confronted at the end of the poem by the eternally alienated Mariner alienating in his turn the Wedding Guest, for the guest is robbed of his happiness and the his participation in the marriage feast and forced to share the disillusioned wisdom and guilt of the Mariner. 'A sadder and a wiser man he rose the morrow morn' is the Wedding Guest; he is wise because he has learned a lesson but sad because he had to learn it. Coleridge concludes the narrative in this
How is the story told in Hardy's "Neutral Tones"?
Joe Breddy NEUTRAL TONES Hardy uses various methods to tell the story in neutral tones which is written in the form of a poem. Neutral Tones tells the story of disappointment in love and life between two lovers and focuses on a theme of death. The setting of the poem is on a “winter day”, this is significantly important as Hardy uses this to convey a sense of sadness; the “winter” connotes cold which is seen to be lonely and death-like. Also, the winter could be a metaphor for the frosty nature of the two lovers’ relationship? This negativity is empathised because it appears so early in the poem “we stood by a pond that winter day”. This sets a bitter tone for the first stanza which intensifies as the emotive language becomes more blatant. In the first stanza Hardy uses the word “chidden”, whereas “curst” is used for the same purpose in the final stanza which is an obvious shift between mild and harsh language. This perhaps shows Hardy losing his temper because of his emotional connection with the theme of the poem; death. Following the apparent break up of a relationship the persona remembers a moment spent with their partner. The person feels deceived by love. As a result of this the setting is presented in a dead and neutral way using a semantic and connotations of death: “fallen from an ash and were gray”. The persona’s interpretation of
W.H. Auden Aspects of Narrative - 1st September 1939
Babatunde Osunmakinde 12RARU 1st September 1939 AON The poem 1st September 1939 gives Auden’s point of view on the outbreak of war. It is written in the form of 9, 11 line stanzas and uses a variety of imagery to express various opinions of Auden on the various attitudes and possible emotions that people might’ve felt during this time of war. An aspect of narrative which Auden uses effectively in this poem is scenes and places. A significant scene which Auden uses in the fourth stanza of the poem, refers to the New York skyline as a place ‘where blind skyscrapers use their full height to show the strength of collective man’. In this case Auden personifies the skyscrapers by referring to them as something blind. He also gives them human attributes by stating that they ‘use their full height’. This is significant to the rest of the poem as this contradicts Auden’s opinions on America’s passivity over the outbreak of war. Another aspect of narrative which Auden uses is time and sequence. The use of ‘1st’ in the title of the poem foreshadows events that are likely to happen later on. This is because 1st signifies the beginning of something which implies that this outbreak is not short-term. There is also a use of allegory in the sense that the 1st signifies a great beginning of something that would later affect everyone. The use of enjambment
