Please read at least one of the following commentaries on Frost's poem. And answer the questions as a comment to this post.
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Sparknotes
1. Identify one point in which you agree with the author. Explain.
2. Identify one point in which you disagree with the author. Explain.
3. Identify and define (using the internet) to define two words from the article with which you are unfamiliar.
4. Many students get frustrated with analyzing and interpreting poetry because it seems that it detracts from the enjoyment of reading poetry. What might be one possible benefit of taking a closer look at poetry?
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5 comments:
1: I agree with the author’s way of rhyming and making the poem rhythmic. I think is a very artistic and stylish way of writing.
2: I disagree with the author’s descriptions. I think that in poetry the descriptions should be kept to a minimum.
3: Masterpiece: work of art; masterwork; work of genius
Anthologized: collected
4: Improving the ways you write your own poetry. When you analyze other’s works, you absorb the style and magnify your creativity and your ideas.
Correcting 1 and 2
1: I agree when they say the lyric quality of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” can be heard in the enchanting final stanza: “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep.” because it is true and I like it.
2: I disagree when they say that “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is generally regarded as Frost's masterpiece because I do not think that this poem is so great as they say it is.
From the 1st essay "Introduction"
1. I agree with the author of the essay when he/she talks about the interpretation of the poem as the forest being wild, out of the way of the tame village, and the horse being the last link to sanity.
2. I don't agree that this is a poem about death; I think it's a poem about insanity.
3. Iambic-a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter
Debilitating- to make weak or feeble; enfeeble
4. I think you can benefit by looking deeper into poetry because you might see deeper underlying themes than you did at first glance.
This analysis was a little drawn out. I mean it was like a 12 line peom that some guy probably wrote while starring out his window on a boring winter day. I really dont thing that he woke up that day and was like hey im going to write the greatest american peom that will be taught throughout the world for years to came. Well im starting to rant but it really wasnt all that and a bag of chips it was just a peom and like all poems it was written for fun because words are fun and people should stop blowing things out of preprtion just because they them selves cant write anything interesting. So my opinion of of this poem is nice job! But please for the the sake of people who like to write stop bitching of over aplauding what other people do with there free time just because you think that you yourself are incapable of brilliance.
1. I like the idea of maybe a suicidal outlook of how man does the meager tasks of life rather then enjoy the beauty of nature, the author has a good idea when he speaks of the different interpretations that all critics get when they speak of this poem for there are so many.
2. How it could be about santa i guess, it seems funny that it would be such a worry for some one of imagination. Frost speaks of his horse, so i don't think that it would be anything of a sort to agree with the comment he makes at the end.
3.inextricably-from which one cannot extricate oneself
Stanza-an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
4. some poems, there are many different ways to interpret what a person says and by what they really mean. Analyzing the poem that you read may help you understand better by what the author was trying to portray.
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