Then as Frost shows to readers, the speaker is looking for the best route by searching deep into the "undergrowth." "Frost presents a classic conflict-the decision between the common easy path and the exceptional challenging path" (Choice are never easy). ... The poem The Road Not Taken has been labeled as the classic conflict of life's decisions, however, critics like Jay Parini feel completely different. ... Kearns believes that Frost rarely displays his own feelings in his writing; that he keeps his readers at a distance. On the contrary, in The Road Not Taken Frost lets hi...

• Word Count: 2122
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The reader can picture these two situations, a child examining an ordinary object as if it is suddenly extraordinary. ... The writer also makes use of powerful words such as "celestial" and "glory" which gives the reader a mental image of brightness within the nostalgic atmosphere. ... It is a classic description of a childhood game where imagination is all powerful and anything is everything. ... The poem tells the reader that once the key is lost it can never be found again, which is somewhat of an exaggeration although is much more effective. ...

• Word Count: 1351
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Death is a sad thing and the reader is reminded that one day they will be just like the dead animal. ... The reader is then asked if they would question the wind's shaping and to watch mildew grow on a mirror in the spring. ... From Baudelaire's "A Carrion", to Keats" "Ode on a Grecian Urn", and Ghalib's V and XII Ghazals, we have now seen three examples of classic Romanticism works. ... Readers today can relate to the sadness and meanings to these poems, and that is probably why they are considered great works. ...

• Word Count: 1751
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Pope has succeeded in creating a highly effective form of satirical comment, one which seems quite paradoxical in that it could have made the Augustan reader laugh or smile whilst the true nature of their ways was being made clear to them, one can only marvel at such a degree of skill and artifice in a poet. ... They are described, for example, as "the light militia of lower sky" , an obvious reference to military formations that would have been a common feature of the classic epic genre. ...

• Word Count: 2068
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate