I chose this poem because in so little words it says so much. ... Thinking he could possibly make a friend he smiled, but was totally unprepared for the boy's reaction. ... This poem appealed to my emotions and moved me. ... The boy's innocence and naive ness is what makes readers feel sorry for him. ... I really liked this poem for many reasons. ...
I identify with Anna Akhmatova's poem "I am not one of those who left the land" because I agree with the poem's theme, "you should never give-up on what you believe in". After September the eleventh, I can appreciate this poem on a higher level. ... I like this poem because for me it is a poem of hope. ... Because like the poem states, "Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud" One of the excerpts that moved me the most is "But I am here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know, we, the survivors, do not ...
Because of what Robert Frost is trying say; "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both and Be one traveler, long I stood and looked Down one as far as I could to where it Bent in the undergrowths-. (1-5) As I said in the previous statement I thought as I read this poem it was about an individual that is about to or has already taken a trip into the unknown because of what Frost has said in the first five lines of his poem. ... Let me give you an example, you see I know this one guy who was given a choice late in his life to ...
Also, the first two poems have a negative tone to them. ... This poem also has nature involved in it too. ... The reader tends to feel sorry for the person in the poem. ... In this poem the tree is the persons only friend. ... Loneliness was the main theme of these poems and was expressed throughout each poem indirectly....
It wasn't until 1894 before Frost began to publish his poems. ... The speaker is "Sorry he could not have traveled both." ... He believes that Frost's meant for the poem to be falsified. ... Kearns argues that because Frost wrote this poem with the inspiration of a dear friend, Edward Thomas, he puts a mask on himself and writes as the speaker of Edward Thomas. ... Although Edward Thomas may have inspired the poem, the poem was not written as a portrait of brotherly love. ...
It is about the loss of opportunity as well as the loss of a daughter, sister, friend etc. ... That would make this poem a free verse. ... "Love Me- Love Me Not," appeals emotionally because you almost feel sorry for the author. ... It hits close to home and appeals to anyone who has ever had a relative or friend with a disease that alters people's mind and actions. Most people cry when they hear this poem. ...
" (438) Showing his archetypes towards blind people, by having to state he is blind, and not just an "old friend of his wife's". ... She even tried to write a poem about it.--She only wrote poems after something really important happen to her.... Hearing this, I felt sorry for the blind man for a little bit." (440) feeling sorry for his wife, because her lover never laid his eyes upon her. ...
From his poem "The Mending Wall" to his poem "In a Disused Graveyard" he has shown several themes to his style of writing. ... In the poem "To E.T." ... In the beginning of the poem it seems to be a simple allege but after third line second stanza you realize that Frost tells about how his friend was a better soldier than a poet and because he has died he is remembered as both. ... We notice that his arrogance prevails even in a time of sadness and mourning to his best friend. ... The disappointment of the speaker is shown in line two when he expresses that he is "sorry He could not travel bo...
Pulling a piece of paper out of his pocket the three poems he had read just the night before, Frost waved them in sedgwick's face and asked "are you sure you want to buy these poems?" ... The poem when printed in today's times, is a paraphrase of the original poem. ... He must decide but is remorseful as he states "And sorry I could not travel both". ... Once again at the end of the poem the traveler expresses regret. ... I wasn't thinking about myself there, but about a friend who had gone...
A common thread that is in three of Hardy's many poems is a passion or mourning for a lost love or friend. ... "The Haunter- by Thomas Hardy is a poem about a friend that the speaker is no longer with. In this poem it is the person who has passed away who is the speaker of this poem, and he follows his friend around to places he couldn't go before (ll. 11-12). His friend, who is still alive and searching, does not know that his dead friend is still there for him and is with him (ll. 1-3). ... - This line is used in the poem in the sense that the speaker follows his friend, but h...
The inspiration for "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost, came from Frost's frequent walks with his closest friend in England, Edward Thomas. ... More than once, on such occasions, Frost had teased his friend for those wasted regrets. ... As the title indicates the central theme of this poem is choices. ... In the poem there is never just one road to take. ... He must decide but is remorseful as he states "And sorry I could not travel both". ...
This can be realised because of the change of their words chosen "PEACE" that says quite a lot from a poem written by Rubert Brook as he describes this as God picking the youth and waking them up in a battle that cannot be won. "God be thanked who has matched us with His Hour And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping" "And the worst friend and enemy is but Death" Then come the horrors by Wilfred Owen, Disabled where a sad desperate man has being brought back without limbs from the war. ... You see even the simple plough mentioned in this poem was upgraded to the tractor and...
Most of the part play in the poem was similar to the word of Christian religious believes. ... The subjective tone used in the poem describes feelings, judgments, or opinions that make the poem particularly and peculiarly religious. Base on the story, the writer of this poem seems religious, and might be trying to bring out some of God's significance. ... Moreover, the narrator also energize on his deep sorry for the ancestor not able to repent and turn to God for help was synonymous to the idea of the devil, who has no remorse for his actions and enjoys killing people and causing chaos ...
In his celebrated poem "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost describes the decision one makes when reaching a fork in the road. ... In the first stanza Frost writes: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth... ... " By structuring the stanza this way, and holding back this pivotal remark until the end, Frost contributes once again a sense of uncertainty and vagueness towards the poem. ... According to the Lawrance Thompson biography,Robert Fro...
Moule was a friend of Hardy and was upper-class, wealthy, and well educated. ... This poem makes extensive illusions to God threw out it. ... I am sorry, but I quite forgot It was your resting place." The woman in this poem who is talking to her dog is dead. ... His poems often idealized the rural life. ...
The narrator starts his story by announcing the fact that an old friend of his wife's was on his way over to spend the night. ... This experience influenced his wife in such a way that she wrote a poem about it. The poem was later read to her husband and he recalls not caring much for it. ... This implies that he does not understand the meaning his wife's poem. ... Hearing this, I felt sorry for the blind man for a little bit. ...
Cathedral by Raymond Carter is a story about a man (the narrator of the story), his wife, and her longtime friend Robert, who is blind. ... The narrator is not enthusiastic about this visit from his wife's friend. ... This bitterness seems to be about a poem written about the experience! ... He felt sorry for the blind man after hearing about how Robert's wife had died. ...
From reading the poem, it's clear that the narrator left his family to pursue an identity of his own, and the first line of the poem suggests that he isn't happy about having to return home out of obligation as the oldest child. ... The feeling of being burdened and the annoyance that comes with it is brought up in other parts of the poem, in lines such as, "and I was embarrassed/by old men standing up to shake my hand/and tell me they were "sorry for my trouble."" ... This line suggests that she longs for the simple, carefree life of her feline friend, and it poses a juxtaposition i...
They hide it in a bed but Huck sees them and feels sorry for the family so he takes it and sticks it in a coffin. ... He is saying that Jim is more important than going to heaven because he is a good friend and a better man. ... He makes this decision because he knows how good of a man and friend Jim is. ... Rhyme scheme- when the dad recites the poem of his daughters about a boy that died. ... The poem says "Despised love struck not with woe That head of curly knots, Nor stomach troubles laid him low Young Stephen Dowling Bots." ...
During Molly's section of the speech, the very first thing she said to the audience was for them to not feel sorry for Catherine. ... Nola learned exercises to teach Catherine, learned how to make things easier for her to understand, learned the importance of repetition, and knew none of the family had time to feel sorry for themselves or for Catherine; they just had to live a normal life, which is what they did. ... She loved poems and even began writing her own. ... Maybe the fact that she works harder than most kids, or because she sees people for who they truly are and is always will...
From doing some research on this novel, I found out that Steinbeck's inspiration for this book actually came from a poem by Robert Burns, titled To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough. The poem is about the plans of mice and men going wrong. ... The difference between him and the rest of the workers is that he has someone to call a friend. ... Although George feels sorry for Lennie, he finds him almost impossible to deal with, because he is almost always getting the two of them into trouble. ...
I was curious about the origins of the title and discovered it was from a line in a Scottish poem- "The best laid schemes o" mice an "men Gong aft agley [often go wrong] And leave us nought but Grief and Pain For promised joy." ... George gets angry and fed up with Lennie but Lennie doesn't understand, so then George feels sorry for him again, like a continous circle or repetition of emotions. ... But by letting the others kill him he felt he had let his old friend down, "I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. ...
, then he smiles at his patient Prior and explains that he is sorry 'to sound so impersonal? ... This poem creates the imagery of the young fighting men being reduced and made old before their time. ... Owen in this poem portrays war as something that leaves deep mental scars as well as physical ones. ... In one section of the poem Owen tells of when the soldiers are being gassed - without their helmets they would simply drown. ... There is a terrible cutting sound being created with the alliteration of the C's in this part of the poem. ...
