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"The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation is noted for being ...
The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson contained in his 1885 collection A Child's Garden of Verses. This poem may be autobiographical. Stevenson was sickly growing up (probably tuberculosis), thus "when I am stronger" may refer to his hope of recovery. Further, his illness isolated him, so the loneliness expressed in the poem would ...
Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (March 27, 1923 – September 14, 2012) [1] was an American poet born in Jamaica. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At the End of the Open Road . Life and career
New Hampshire is a 1923 poetry collection by Robert Frost, which won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [1]The book included several of Frost's most well-known poems, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", [2] "Nothing Gold Can Stay" [3] and "Fire and Ice". [4]
The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald, who adopted the style from Hakim Omar Khayyam, the 12th-century Persian poet and mathematician. Each verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme , with the following verse's A line rhyming with that verse's B line, which is a chain rhyme ...
Bearing this in mind, the poem can be read as a critique as to how warfare can force innocent, young boys to leave their childhood behind, and ultimately be destroyed by circumstances created by the "responsible" adult. The title of the poem is an allusion to William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth ("Out, out, brief candle
Fifty years ago, my dad ran through these hills, back when they were far less patrolled. In a decade of crossing and re-crossing, Papi treated the border and the fences that demarcated it like an ...
"Epilogue for W. H. Auden" is a poem of 19 stanzas, each of four lines.The rhyme scheme is AABB. The poem is written in tetrameters (lines of four metrical feet). Auden would later use the same rhyme scheme and metre (tetrameter couplets) in the last section of In Memory of W. B. Yeats (1939).