On Robert Frost's "Design" Upon my initial encounter with this sonnet, I was unable to conceive of any deeper meaning to Frost's poem other than a curious observation of a spider in nature. ... Robert Frost was both a lover and observer of nature and obviously an intelligent man. ... In the closing couplet, the speaker seems to be referring to two possible explanations of this ironic situation. ... The fruit looked pure and delicious, but it was certainly an instrument of death. ... This is an extremely gloomy and depressing way to look at this poem, but I feel it is a p...

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Robert Frost transitions from the natural world, to the spiritual world, using ambiguity, paradox, symbols and tone to assert his notion of the inevitable expiration of something precious.  ... With the use of alliteration in line two, Frost is able to show the reader the actual difficulties of maintaining such a bright color. ... This reference takes the explanation made by Frost to another level. ... With just eight lines, Robert Frost creates a substantial argument that anything precious is transient, using ambiguity, symbols, paradox and tone. ... Robert Frost creates symbols reinforced...

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Robert Frost's "Mending Wall- is about barriers people live within for no logical reason. ... The poem tells of two neighbors who seem to be second-generation landowners. ... Doves and White people are looked at as having a better chance at a good life. ... No explanation is given as to why this is that way, only that it is. ... Frost's poem tackles all mankind's tendency to behave in the "Mending Wall- manor. ...

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Some readers may interpret the poems of Robert Frost's as being straight forward in expressing his personal belief, emotion, and attitude. ... In the closing couplet, the speaker offers two logical explanations to the question of how the coincidence of the three white creatures came to be. ... In the poem "Fire and Ice," Frost compares and contrasts the two destructive forces: fire and ice. ... If you look away or avert your eyes, the image disappears as fast as it appeared. ... From evidence presented above, we can see the profound and momentous aspects of Robert Frost's work of poe...

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In the poem "Mending Wall- by Robert Frost two neighbors are making their annual walk down their property line, mending up the parts of the stone that have fallen to the harsh elements of the winter. ... The wall divides but it also connects, if you look at it that way. ... Thus the explanation of why the wall is mended continually comes to light. ... It asks neither for advocacy nor for application, but for investigation Robert Frost's tone is candid one, that of giving us the truth reluctantly. ... It is clear that Robert Frost knows that the boundaries we construct are necessary. ...

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The work of Robert Frost raises many thought provoking ideas through the clever use of metaphors. ... The "two roads diverged" symbolize the points in this journey where one must make choices. ... The central image of "two roads diverged" helps to convey the theme of having to make choices in life. ... On a literal level the poem depicts a person's regret at not being able to travel two roads, and having to make a choice between the two. ... Mending Wall is about the repairing of a wall between two men and their houses on a literal level, however, looking deeper into the meaning, me...

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"The Road Not Taken- By: Robert Frost I think what this poem is about is about a person who has or is about to take a trip into the unknown. 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...

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" (Warren, 2002) Scripture states in "The Gospel of Luke" that "to whom much is given, much is required." (12:48) In analyzing Robert Frost's, "The Road Not Taken," (as cited in Clugston, 2011, sec. 2.2) and Eudora Welty's, "A Worn Path," (as cited in Clugston, 2011, sec. 6.5), there is a sense of purpose, producing perseverance in the journey of life of each of the protagonists. In each of these two literary pieces, Frost and Welty each present a persevering individual who arrives at the end of their life's journey, with much to show for their life cho...

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The poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost and the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson both contain cases of apparently foolish customs. ... My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines" (Frost 24-26). ... This wall does a great deal more than isolated the two men that live on his side. ... In this poem, it is enormously unexpected that the activity of developing a limit between the two men is the same activity that tears limits down between the two men. ... While the two men never totally concur on the reason they keep on developing t...

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Robert Frost once said, "Poetry is that which is lost in translation." ... This is where I believe Mr Frost's statement becomes apparent. ... If she were lesbian, no one would need to look for a closer or deeper meaning to her poetry. It would be a matter of simply looking at the poems and labelling them without having to look for any other explanation. ... However, having read that it was normal in those days to have very close relationships with people of the same sex, I began to look for a deeper meaning. ...

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