The Things They Carried-Tim O’Brien “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is a collection of different short stories about American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. The book focuses on the turbulent period in the American history where the author narrates the stories with insight and compassion to reach out to the audience. It is almost a hallucinatory book because it is neither O’Brien’s memoir nor a short stories nor a novel but an artful of combination of all these three. In the book, O’Brian narrates his experience in the Vietnam War but majority of the stories are fictional. The main character in the book has similar life experience as O’Brien himself.
“My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work” (Biography.com Editors). Gregor Mendel changed history by how he was the one who discovered the principles of heredity. Gregor Mendel marked history when he discovered genetics and how they work. He was the man known as “The Father of Modern Genetics” (The Doc). He is worthy of research because we would not know that we get our traits from our parents, or how it happens.
The American Revolution (1775-1783) refers to the time period when the thirteen established colonies rose up against the British monarchy (newworldencyclopedia.org). For years, the British had taken advantage of those who lived in the thirteen colonies by imposing extremely restrictive taxes, acts, as well as policies that gave the colonists absolutely no governing power. Instead, they were given no representation, which was only one of many reasons colonists decided that it was time for a change. One of the reasons that the British sought to colonize was because it would allow them to increase their wealth.
Frost’s composition ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ epitomises the unpredictable nature of revelations as reveals an individual realising their purpose. Frost’s process of discovery begins when the persona appears to “stop… between the woods and frozen lake” to contemplate his existence, curious for a life without obligations. The process continues as the persona experiences a compelling draw towards nature, expressing “the woods” as “lovely, dark and deeply”. The use of antithesis and paradox augments the connection he feels with nature by contrasting the qualities that are used to describe their appeal. His willingness to consider the oblivion of the woods suggests that he is weary of his chores.
However, it is difficult to define what the “night” means to the speaker at the beginning. In this stanza, the narrator walks in the rain and see the city light. The narrator wanders in the night, feeling that he is isolated from the world, despite the fact that he is in the city. The rhyme in the first stanza is obvious because the narrator starts five lines with the same pattern “I have”. Frost uses the first person perspective in order to emphasize the narrator’s loneliness.
Frost does this because this poem has many meanings and he didn't want to pin point one meaning and stick to. It is important for the readers to fill in the blanks. It could mean one thing to one reader and another thing to the other. Some poems have cultural like behavior or it describes the way people are dressed and it might even have some kind of foreign speech.
Frost then writes, “Her early leaf’s a flower / But only so an hour,” (Frost lines 3-4). Frost illustrates that beauty of nature is taken away quickly because beauty is eventually normalized. It is only until the beauty fades that it is realized how much time the beauty of nature has been around us, yet the viewer neglects to appreciate it until too much time has passed. Frost uses the changing of seasons to show how time is taken for granted and is not truly appreciated.
Frost follows this line saying that this green is nature's hardest hue to hold (Line 2). This line symbolizes and concludes that the beauty that was present in nature fades quickly. The entire poem is a never ending way of saying that the
That you should live each day like it’s your last. This line demonstrates change of nature because he is talking about the transition from dawn to day, how when that change is over you can’t go back to it. After looking at these three examples it’s clear to see that Frost, like other poets, try to give a deeper meaning in their writing, and sometimes use change to show that. Frost gives his writing a deeper meaning to it by using the change of
In the story “Birches” Frost uses many literary devices to explain the tone of the story. I believe he is explaining how the trees are low because the boys have been swinging on them. He is explaining what happens to the trees with color and weather change. He uses metaphors, similes, and personification to explain the tone of the story.
The subject is lossing a life. The author is showing us by using nature how greving feels. Frost uses personification through the whole poem to show the theme. I think the poem walks,the rythem is paced.
Subject: The poem is a imaginative projection of Frost’s earlier tree swinging on Birch trees that are actually bent by nature, a less transcendent force. Paraphrase: When the narrator is faced with Birch trees, he transitions from the reality of their stature to his personal manipulation of them. First, he outlines the realistic situation of how the changing seasons is what shaped them to look the way they do. Then, he shifts to telling how he once swung from Birch trees, and how he longs to do the same now.
This establishes the idea that the beginning of spring symbolizes birth, as that is when the flowers bloom. He then goes on to describe the plant’s death in the winter, showing that loss of innocence and the initiation of growth and maturity is inevitable, just as the change of the seasons. The analogy shows that, despite the idealistic portrayal of childhood, innocence is merely a fleeting beauty–a perishable good. Furthermore, Frost uses an allusion to the biblical story of “The Garden of Eden”, stating, “Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief…”(Frost 5-6).
Both of these connections in the poem first section are to the trees being withered down people in their everyday lives with common dilemmas and misfortunes, which is referred to as the snow and ice storms in the poem. The narrator continues with more personal feelings, such as how they remembered when they were a child.
and he explains how empty the woods are. The very last stanza explains how he moves on in the forest, as he cannot sit in the lovely forest for much time because he must go. There are four stanzas and they all slowly lead up to the fact that once you are on a journey you must not stop. At the end of the poem it's stated twice that “and miles to go before I sleep” (Frost 15-16). This is said twice due to the fact that it is dreaded that he must move on but it is just something that has to happen.
