... language of these three poems. He goes into great detail describing every bend and the way the birches look after being bent so many times. He thoroughly describes the ice cracking from the wind tossed trees, the way the ice shatters and falls to the snow. His extreme use of descriptive details helps to put the reader there. Focusing on the ... my breath, my nose and ears so cold that they burn. The sun is glaring off of the snow, and I can hear the ice falling now and again, and the cracking of the birches as they blow one against another. In "The Road Not Taken", the focus is not on t...

• Word Count: 1234
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... up to that point, where "the ponderous beast" (9) has been killed. The onomatopoeic effect with a "crack of a broken shaft" (10) creates an aural visualization of the cracking noise we would've heard when a knife is plunged into the horse. The automatic connotations that we associate with the word 'crack', is usually implied with negative actions; such ... ...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a boy swinging the trees, and the tone of words used. The conflict of reality vs. imagination is explored through images of bent birches. Reality is depicted as birches bending and cracking after a freezing rain from the ice that was left behind. Frost let's the reader know that this is reality in lines 3-4: "I like to think some boy's been swinging them. But ... ...

• Word Count: 1056
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School