... to figure each other out. The theme of this book is life's contrasts and this is made evident with contrasting characters, contrasting seasons, and good vs. evil. First of all, Gene and finny had to deal with the fact that they are very different people. Gene was a very intellectual person, and ... eternal shade. Winter's occupation seems to have conquered, overrun and destroyed everything, so that now there is no longer any resistance movement left in nature; all the juices are dead, every sprig of vitality snapped, and now winter itself, an old corrupt, tired conqueror, loosens it's ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... memories of a fond friend serving at his funeral. "The time you won your town the race/ we chaired you through the market- place/ Man and boy stood cheering by/ and home we brought you shoulder high/." The first stanza demonstrates the narrator's most impacting memories of the deceased athlete. ... is smothered both physically and emotionally by whiteness. The poem contrasts spring and all of its beauty, to death and all its heartache. The memories of the beauty of spring seem to go unnoticed by the woman. All she can do is think about losing her husband amidst the magnificence of ... th...

• Word Count: 1615
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... and forests, to convey his thoughts and emotions. The turning of the seasons, a wooded area, and other things common in nature, were also common in Frosts poems. Many people attest this to his working as a farmer on an old New England farm for part of his life, operating a failing New Hampshire Chicken farm. His ... has shaped their actions and mental attitudes." This is especially prevalent in the first poem mentioned, because you really get a sense of the commitment the man feels for his life, continuing on to keep promises, but also his sense of wonderment and bewilderment with the un...

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• Grade Level: High School

... conversation with himself using dialogue between his sensible, knowing self and his fantasizing, nostalgic self. At first the poem seems to be just an account for all of the birches leaning with none standing straight. Frost would like to think that a child at play bent the trees, probably to escape the truth ... in our time, since most destruction to nature is blamed on humans and pollution. Frost, being a man of the country, realizes that nature often destroys itself, but he wants to imagine a different cause for the leaning branches. The speaker's fantasy offers him a way to make som...

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• Grade Level: High School

... a safe and happy life. Janie married Logan Killicks to satisfy her grandmother, and had hopes that she would grow to love the ugly man that she didn't particularly care for. Although Nanny insisted that love was not an important factor in their marriage, the absence of love is what essentially drove the marriage apart. ... proper time to give the marriage would be the length of four seasons, after which she would have to move on if things had not changed. When blooming time, green time, and orange time all passed, she began looking out of the gate for something new to come into her life....

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round." All things good are of a circle. Such as, the circle of life is round. The Sun and the Moon. The Sky and the Earth. The bird's nest and ... that can only be found in circles. He recalls the many ways in which circles influence the Power of the World, and now the Wasichus (the term for the White man) have put them in the square houses thus taking their power away. "We made these little gray houses of logs that you see, and they ...

• Word Count: 1042
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School