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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 title-poem of Yarrow Revisited initially got a good press. In America, it is true, The Christian Examiner and General Review judged that though the language was pure and flowing, "the structure of the verse does not correspond to the grave style of thought. It is altogether too light and dancing."
Bloom indicates the poem is one of the very few in which Dickinson examined a current technology, and points out that its theme is the effect such a technology may have on the landscape and on people and animals. Bloom observes that the reader discovers the subject of the poem is a train by "seeing and hearing it, instead of being told directly ...
Matthew Arnold praised it as "the best short poem in the language", [5] and the poet and critic Richard Wilbur has described it as "America's first flawless poem". [citation needed] The narrator in George du Maurier's "Peter Ibbetson" calls it "the most beautiful poem in the world". [citation needed]
"Cherrylog Road" is a poem by James Dickey.Written in 1963, [1] this is one of his more well-known poems. It first appeared in the October 1963 edition of The New Yorker [1] but was also included in several collections of his poetry, including Helmets: Poems (1964), Poems, 1957–1967 (1967), [2] The Whole Motion (1992), and James Dickey: The Selected Poems (1998).
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire, And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire; A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head. I knew no harm of Bonaparte and plenty of the Squire,
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In Whitman’s poem, the reader can find symbolism through the journey of life and the open, democratic society of that time. In the first 8 sections of the poem, Whitman observes the freedoms in life shown through the open road, “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road; Healthy, free, the world before me; The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.”