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…1998 "The Road Not Taken" Rather Than "The Road Taken?" A Title, A Choice The title of a poem often reflects the author's theme. In his poem "The Road Not Taken" Frost's theme is about choices. He had two roads to chose from and wonders what…

…) The narrator of this last stanza of "The Road Not Taken" is Edward Thomas, eluding that the choice he has just made may be the wrong, or the right; but only time will tell. On the surface, Robert Frost’s poem is a story about a walk on a wooded road, but it had…

…in the great abstracts of Love and Death, and composed most of his work according to the rules of Surrealism. His first two volumes, Eighteen Poems and Twenty-five Poems were published in the middle of the decade and of this short surrealistic era as well. Dylan…

…In the poem, “The Raven” by Edgar Alan Poe, he uses many different elements as symbols. A raven is usually the symbol of something dark and sinister. A raven is also a sign of death. This poem also deals with losing hope, even though the narrator…

…of such poetry was Robert Herrick. Herrick used a lyrical style, unappreciated in his day, to write poetry that captured the very essence of carpe diem-to seize the day. Many of his poems were published in a volume entitled Hesperides. The most famous of those poems…

…How Does “Home Burial” show Frost’s Development as a Poet? Frost wrote “In Hardwood Groves”” and “Home Burial” at different stages in his poetic career. The structural differences are clear, the two poems differ in length, layout and most evidently…

…The poem 'Telephone conversation' is staged by a black man who is looking for a flat but ends up phoning to a landlady who is racist but tries to be polite in finding out whether he is he is a dark or light one. When he first speaks to her he feels…

…and Foam, Jesus the Son of Man, The Earth Gods, The Wanderer, The Garden of The Prophet, Prose Poem, Nymphs of The Valley, Spirits Rebellious, A Tear and a Smile, Broken Wings, A Self Portrait, The Wisdom of Gibran., and his other books of poetry, illustrated…

…and anxieties for his home country, which are eloquently displayed in his poetry. Despite the complexity of Yeats’ love for Ireland, there are references to his pure adoration of Ireland and its people. In the, largely political, poem “To Ireland in the Coming…

…The poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath concludes with the symbolic scene of the speaker killing her vampire father. On an obvious level this represents Plath's struggle to deal with the haunting influence of her own father who died when she was a little girl…