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In writing this poem, Frost was inspired by his childhood experience with swinging on birches, which was a popular game for children in rural areas of New England during the time. Frost's own children were avid "birch swingers", as demonstrated by a selection from his daughter Lesley's journal: "On the way home, i climbed up a high birch and ...
"The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation is noted for being ...
Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and "These fragments I have shored against my ruins". [6] The Waste Land does not follow a single narrative or feature a consistent style or structure. The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy, and features abrupt and ...
In the age of wooden ships, boats were sometimes hauled for the winter and placed in sheds or dry dock for repair. The boats already had some amount of rot occurring in the wood members, but the wood cellular structure was full of water making it still function structurally. As the wood dried out, the cell walls would crumble.
The "parallel clauses" of the first and tenth lines, both beginning "Nothing would," create a frame for the poem. [7] This frame structure makes an "etymological pun" on the word cellar, deriving from the Latin cella, broadly meaning "room," thus mirroring the setting of the poem in its construction as a poem of containment. [7]
Fish always rots from the head downwards; Fish and guests smell after three days; Flattery will get you nowhere; Fools rush in (where angels fear to tread) For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost; Forewarned is forearmed; Fortune favours the bold/brave
tells the story of the Grinch, a mean-spirited anti-hero who attempts to steal Christmas in the town of Whoville. The Grinch later feels the true spirit of the holiday and, in the iconic words of ...
"Trees" is a poem of twelve lines in strict iambic tetrameter. The eleventh, or penultimate, line inverts the first foot, so that it contains the same number of syllables, but the first two are a trochee. The poem's rhyme scheme is rhyming couplets rendered AA BB CC DD EE AA. [20]