Robert+Frost

Robert Frost

//4. The Road Not Taken// //"//The Road Not Taken" describes the speakers hesitation in choosing between the two diverging roads. The poem uses this situations as an analogy for decision making, where the speaker finally chooses the 'one less traveled by' where he urges people to make brave choices and take the road less traveled.

//5. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening// The speaker describes his short stop in the woods during his trip where he watches the snowy slowly filling up between the trees. His horse, however, finds the woods to be a weird place to stop, and gave "his harness bells a shake." Even though the speaker enjoyed watching the woods, he could not stay for he has "promises to keep" and "miles to go" before he sleeps.

//6. Nothing Gold Can Stay// *Expresses the idea that nothing beautiful can last forever. *'Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.' Here, the word 'gold' represents a certain value rather than the color gold. The speaker is saying green is the most beautiful color in nature, but as all plants die, this 'hue' cannot last. *The 'early leaf's a flower;' but it doesn't not remain special, and it is that way for 'only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf.' Meaning the first leaf is always special, like a flower, but when other leaves start growing, it is no longer unique, and therefore is just like any other leaf. *The speaker then alludes to a Biblical reference, the Garden of Eden. The garden was originally created for Adam and Eve as a happy home, but in the end it 'sank to grief,' *After listing a number of examples, the speaker circles back to his original statement 'Nothing gold can stay.'

//7. Fire and Ice// *Speculations on how the world will end, in either fire or ice. *The speaker first 'hold with those who favor fire' because he has seen the all-consuming 'desire' seen in people. *But if the world had to 'perish twice' the 'destruction of ice' would also be suffice, because the speaker knows enough of 'hate' that exist in the world. *Through the poem, Robert Frost is commenting on the destructive hate and desire he is observing in the world.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//8. The Rose Family// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*The poem uses 'roses' as a symbol of beauty. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*'There 'was always a rose,' but now 'the apple's a rose' and 'the pear is, and 'the plum, i suppose.' Here, the speaker is saying that people are starting to see beauty in many things that was before considered common. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*The speaker then address 'you.' Who is also a rose, 'but were always a rose.' He is praising the person's beauty, saying it has always been, and has always been obvious instead of being one of the pseudo-beauties.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//19. Window and Window Flower// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*A story of an unlikely romance between 'a window flower' and a 'winter breeze.' The lovers are separated by their nature. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*Has a rhyme scheme of ABCB. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*Personification of the 'breeze' and 'flower' makes a natural scene into a lover's story. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*The 'winter breeze' symbolizes a tough man who knows 'little of love. ' He is 'concerned with ice and snow, dead weeds and unmated birds.' <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*'She,' however, is the complete opposite of the 'wind,' she is a fragile 'window flower' that is protected by the 'fire-lit looking glass,' bathed in 'warm stove-window light.' <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*When he 'prevailed' her to fly with him, she 'leaned aside and thought of naught to say.' And in the morning found the wind 'a hundred miles away.' This description shows the drastic difference in the lovers' nature is an obstacle that they cannot over come. Frost is also saying when one misses the chance, or fails to seize an opportunity to be with their loved one, there is no catching up as they will be 'a hundred miles away' in the morning.