Birches: Summary
The most anthologized poem of Robert Frost was probably written in 1913-1914, but it was first appeared in 1915 in Atlantic Monthly in the August issue and was later collected in Frost’s …
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Analysis of Birches by Robert Frost
Written in conversational language, the birches poem constantly moves from reverie to reflection, truth and imagination, earth and heaven, concrete and spirit, control and abandon and flight and return. In …
Birches: Theme, Tone, and Figure of Speech
Youth The poem is full of allusions to the childhood experiences of the poet-cum-narrator and the imagined boys. The poet seems weary of this world and wants to return to …
The Death of the Hired Man: Analysis, Theme, and Literary Devices
The poem “The Death of The Hired Man” appears in North of Boston, a collection of Robert Frost’s poems, which was first published in the year 1914. The Death of …
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“Nothing Gold Can Stay”-Tone, Theme and Literary Devices
Nothing Gold Can Stay poem was published as a part of Frost’s collection of poems called New Hampshire. It was written in the year 1923. Frost eventually won a Pulitzer …
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Analysis and Summary of “Hyla Brook” by Robert Frost
Robert Frost’s “Hyla Brook” was published in 1916, as part of Mountain Interval. The poem talks about a brook close to the poet’s farm, which is named after the Hyla …
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Tone of the Poem “Fire and Ice”
An extremely precise and compact lyric, Fire and Ice traces the didactic tone of the speaker compressed into a terse and pithy language. The aim of the poet is aphoristic, …
“Fire and Ice”- Figures of Speech and Imagery
Symbolic overtones pervade the laconic atmosphere of the poem. The poem is itself a symbol of foreseeing the ultimate end of the world, punctuated human conditions. The poem is also …
“Fire and Ice” Rhyme Scheme
The poetic expression relies heavily on the rhyme scheme. “Fire and Ice” rests upon an irregularly interweaving of the pattern: three rhymes and two line lengths into the poem consisting …
Summary of Birches by Robert Frost
About the poet: Robert Frost, the most popular poet of America, was born in San Francisco, California, to Mr. William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie. His mother was a …