1. Compare and Contrast: Frost and Dickinson
Conversely, Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death" " only romanticizes the individual past in order to contrast the insignificance of an individual's history with the breadth of the eternity that awaits all individuals after death. ... "Directive"" romanticizes the entirety of human history by comparing the span of human existence with that of long-lasting natural landmarks. ... When Frost's speaker tells the traveler that a broken drinking goblet, which he compares to the Holy Grail, was something that he had stolen "from a children's playhouse"(59), the im...
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