I've been assigned to write an essay comparing/contrasting 2 poems that are relatively well known and are at least 20 lines each. Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" has always been a favorite of mine, but I couldn't think of another poem that accurately addresses the notion of choice. My teacher suggested Rudyard Kipling's "If" but I don't entirely agree. Basically, I'm looking for a good poem to compare/contrast with Frosts poem. If none exists, inform me of 2 poems that would make for a good "fate VS free will" type essay. (Or any good poems that make for a good compare/contrast essay) Thanks!!!
Josh, you might use this one by Tennyson:
Crossing the Bar
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For through from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
Les
i need help analyzing these poems, i have a good idea on both but i dont know the specifics or the literary terms like meter and stuff for them, help would be GREATLY appreciated
i need help analyzing these poems
Which ones, Bob?
Les
hi,
pls help me with Edward Braithwaite poem ,"Masks".i was directed to write on the black consciousness it portrays.
pls if possible,explain the poem and send it to my e-mail box.i'll be glad if that is done
hi,
pls help me with Edward Braithwaite poem ,"Masks".i was directed to write on the black consciousness it portrays.
pls if possible,explain the poem and send it to my e-mail box.i'll be glad if that is done
I may not e-mail a response, but I will be glad if you post the poem itself.
Anuli, when you post the poem, please do so in a New Topic thread.
I thought that is was really interesting. In english we have to memorize this poem and I can't memorize things very well. But I thought that it was very educating.
ok Josh i got two poems that you could use
The first one is similar to the road not taken and you can compare it and the second one is about physical journey and you can also connect it with the road not taken
Before Knowledge
by Thomas Hardy
When I walked roseless tracks and wide,
Ere dawned your date for meeting me,
O why did you not cry Halloo
Across the stretch between, and say:
"We move, while years as yet divide,
On closing lines which--though it be
You know me not nor I know you -
Will intersect and join some day!"
Then well I had borne
Each scraping thorn;
But the winters froze,
And grew no rose;
No bridge bestrode
The gap at all;
No shape you showed,
And I heard no call!
On The Borders
---Les Murray
We're driving across tableland
somewhere in the world;
it is almost bare of trees.
Upland near void of features
always moves me, but not to thought;
it lets me rest from thinking.
I feel no need to interpret it
as if it were art. Too much
of poetry is criticism now.
That hawk, clinging to
the eaves of the wind, beating
its third wing, its tail
isn't mine to sell. And here is
more like the space that needs
to exist aound an image.
This cloud-roof country reminds me
of the character of people
who first encountered roses in soap.