Robert Frost's writing style can best be described as a mix of 19th century tradition combined with 20th century contemporary technique. Frost was a modern poet who liked to use conventional form metrics combined with New England dialect. His writing style changed gradually over time, becoming more abstract in his later years. Many experts believe this was largely due to his religious and political beliefs. Robert Frost held an unusual place in twentieth century literature, joining aspects of modern poetry. The poem Mending Wall is also very modern in its approach. The poem is based on the modern theme of isolation. Modern men built boundaries and made themselves isolated from each other. Though Frost's poetry often focuses on beautiful images—snow …show more content…
The two apartments stand for information theory and that of thermodynamics. It’s as if Pynchon, in using this as his setting, is saying something about modernity, asserting that modern man is stacked up like dirty laundry. And, even though they are separated by hallways, stair sets, and doors, there are people (downstairs, at least) coming in through the windows and noise from separate apartments coming up through the cracks in the floor. He found himself, in short, restating Gibbs' prediction in social terms, and envisioned a heat-death for his culture in which ideas, like heat-energy, would no longer be transferred, since each point in it would ultimately have the same quantity of energy.Meatball, as I have said, wishes to restore order to an increasingly chaotic (because of its open doors) system, whereas Aubade and Callisto are trying to create order within an isolated system. The story concerns itself with the artistic and intellectual culture of the 50s just as much as it does scientific, artistic, communicative, and cultural theories. Entropy” is Pynchon’s commentary on the hopelessness of all belief systems to overcome deterioration and destruction.In short, “Entropy” is a production of a writer who has yet to master his craft; it is of interest chiefly as a prelude to what is to come.The autobiographical memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, by noted author Joan Didion chronicles her experiences in the wake of the sudden death of her husband John Gregory Dunne, also a noted author. These experiences include the ongoing and life threatening, illness of their adopted daughter Quintana, sudden and almost