1. Compare and Contrast: Frost and Dickinson
Robert Frost's "Directive"" and Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death"" are both poems that deal with the past in relation to the present of the speaker. ... 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. ... The speaker of Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death"" also looks upon her individual past in a manner that instills a sense of nosta...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate