"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is an excellent example of one of his darker pieces of writing. ... In the first stanza, Frost is setting the scene and the mood by expressing the isolated local during a break in the travelers arduous journey; it is key to understand that this man does not want to be disturbed since he contentedly states, "He will not see me stopping here" (line 3). ... Earlier in the poem, supporting the gloominess of this night in conjunction with possible event of suicide, it also states how it is "The...

• Word Count: 914
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Robert Frosts Poem "Mending Wall,"" we see a theme of tradition, and many cases of symbolism relating to this theme, in the manner of the wall and repairing it. The narrator of this poem states early in the work that every spring he and the neighbor walk and repair the wall, noting that "Something there is that doesn't love a wall " (line 1) and that "But at spring mending-time we find them there"" (line 12), meaning they find gaps and holes that were created by some unknown force. ... The wall represents this boundary in the narrator's eyes, he even states "He is all pine and I a...

• Word Count: 624
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his poem "Mending Wall,"" Robert Frost illustrates the advantages of analyzing traditions, and possibly changing them for the better. ... Although initiating the annual mending, the narrator firmly states "something there is that doesn't love a wall- (line 1), referring to nature and how it doesn't agree with man-made boundaries and can damage them copiously. ...

• Word Count: 619
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I want the life brought back to the words of Robert Frost and William Shakespeare and I want to see the value and beauty of the English language restored. ... Crystal states that abbreviated words and shortened sentences are merely a modern version of abbreviations and symbols used in the English language for centuries. ... Texting has been defended as simply talking with your fingers; even Robert Frost and Shakespeare never wrote the same way they spoke in conversation. ... There is just something to the respectfulness of the proper use of beautiful, expressive, descriptive words, and the ...

• Word Count: 1010
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," written in a third person point-of-view, is at the surface merely a description of two neighbors who repair a wall that separates their property. ... The narrator, though curious, states that Mother Nature is that "something" who makes the "frozen-ground-swell" and "spills upper boulders." ...

• Word Count: 696
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate