Throughout the stanza, there is broad usage of reflective similes: "As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled-; These insubstantial elements of nature and memory are designed to illustrate the this power as something that is comparable to nature in beauty, but yet is somehow beyond human reach (Brewer, Hymn to 988). ... Naturally, the impact of nature is intense, which is shown by the ongoing figurative language being u...

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Frost remarks: "I have promises to keep, but miles to go before I sleep." ... He mentions how they look inviting, a place he"d like to go. ... In his poem, the Road Not Taken, Frost once again uses first person to tell the story. ... In the final stanza, he tells us of his choice. ... Frost uses nature to entrap the reader in his poem, so they may better understand what is going on, and the emotion involved. ...

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This line shows that most people do not have a choice about going to war, so they are basically forced to murder. ... When the poet personifies the "mountains", which disapprove of him, he is talking about more powerful people above him who frown upon him. ... A robot is a mechanical device which acts on what people tell it to do without thinking. ... If he becomes "a cog" in this machine he will have a repetitive cycle, going round and round because of others and others go round because of him. ...

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