Eulogy -Robert Frost

Robert hoar Robert rime once debated whether the military personnel finish in cauterise, or wish-wash. It is a sad thought that the earth forget kibosh without him that the future generations bequeath be privy to such events make for people like Robert. He was an inspirational, American poet who questi hotshotd the very core of our beliefs, he chose paths that few had took, and that is why today he is remembered today. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874.His family moved to New England when he was eleven he became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high naturalize years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He earned his mildewal degree at the arguably the most prestigious University, Harvard. He later wrenched through unhomogeneous occupations, ranging from t for each oneer to editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His for the scratch line time professional meter, My Butterfly, was published on November 8, 1894, in The Independent newspaper.I n a 1970 review of The Poetry of Robert Frost, the poet Daniel Hoffman describes Frosts early work as the Puritan ethic turned astonishingly lyrical and enabled to arrange out loud the sources of its possess delight in the world, and comments on Frosts calling as The American Bard He became a national celebrity, our intimately official Poet Laureate, and a great performer in the tradition of that sooner master of the literary vernacular, Mark Twain. About Frost, Pre arraynt John F. Kennedy said, He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will eer gain joy and understanding. Though his work is predominantly associated with the life story and scenery of New England, and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics who remained unfalteringly detached from the poetic movements and fashions of his time, Frost is allthing but a moreover regional or minor poet. The author of searching and often muddy meditations on universal t hemes he is essentially a modern poet who round truthfully in all that encompasses, his work inspired psychological battles indoors ourselves, his works were fused with layers of obscurity and irony.Robert Frost lived and taught for some years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died in Boston on January 29, 1963. devil poems that debatably epitomize what Robert Frost stood for, what he believed in, how he opened the mental capacitys of many people to what is These cardinal poems ar fire and ice, and the route not taken. The short poem fire and ice, outlines the familiar question about the destiny of the end of world, wondering if it is more likely to be devastated by fire or ice. People are on two sides of the debate, and Frost introduces the narrator to bring home the bacon his personal take on the question of the end of the world.The narrator commencement ceremony de enclosureines that the world must end in fire after expression in mind his personal experiences with de sire and rut, the emotions of fire. withal, after considering his experience with ice, or hatred, the narrator acknowledges that ice would be equally erosive. A reading will now be done of the poem Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what Ive tasted of desire I h gray-headed with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I bet I know lavish of hate To say that for destruction ice Is in like manner great And would suffice.Only nine lines, this miniature poem is a splendid example of Frosts concisely ironic literary style. The poem varies amidst deuce meter lengths (either eight syllables or four-spot syllables) and uses tercet collections of interwoven rhymes, based on -ire, -ice, and -ate. In the first two lines of the poem, Frost creates a clear dichotomy mingled with fire and ice and the two groups of people that believe in each element. By using the term some instead of I or an individual, Frost emphasizes that the distinction between the two elements is a universal truth, not just an idea promoted by an individual.In addition to the unavoidable contradiction between fire and ice, these first lines also outline the prerogative that the world will end as a direct result of one of these elements. It is made unclear which element will lead to the destruction of the world, but it is noteworthy to know that these are the scarcely two options given. The poem does not allow for any other possibilities in terms of the worlds fate, just as there are not any other opinions allowed in the black-and-white debate between fire and ice.Remarkably, the two prospects for the worlds destruction correspond straight to a common scientific debate during the time Frost wrote the poem. some(prenominal) like this poem, scientists also debated the eventual end to the Earth, on one side some believed the Earth will be destroyed by the tan magma core, incinerating the Earth to nothing, while others believed that a new Ice Age would f ade all livings things on the earths surface. Instead of preserving a strictly scientific perspective on this debate, Frost introduces a more steamy side, associating passionate desire with fire and hatred with ice.Within this fableical view of the two elements, the world can be recognized as a metaphor for and consequently foregrounding to the audience, a relationship. Too much fire and passion can quickly consume a relationship, while cold numbness and hate can be equally destructive Although the first two lines of the poem insist that there can only be a single choice between fire and ice, the narrator further details that a combination or a concurring sequence of two elements would destroy the Earth.Furthermore, the fact that he has had personal experience with both (in the form of desire and hate) reveals that fire and ice are not mutually exclusive, as the first two lines of the poem assert. In fact, though the narrator first concludes that the world will end in fire, he ultimately admits that the world could just as easily end in ice fire and ice, it seems, are strikingly similar. This further highlights what Frost believes in relationships. That, although a engrossment of one emotion, passion or hatred can be destructive he poses that one cannot be without both of them existing.The second poem analysed will be The route not taken. The narrator places upon a fall apart in the road while walking through a color wood. He considers both paths and concludes that each one is equally well-travelled and appealing. After choosing a path, the narrator when he will come back to the fork to carry the distinct path, he later realises this will possibly never demote but that he will only come to new forks (new finales), his mind then ponders on how different his life would own been if he chose the different path, a reading will now be done.Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And look ed down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth hence took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and valued wear Though as for that the exceedingly there Had worn them authentically about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one slight travelled by, And that has made all the difference. This poem is made up of four stanzas of five lines, each with a rhyme scheme of ABAAB. This poem is one of Frosts most adored works and is used many times in English studies. Since its publication, many readers have analysed the poem as a nostalgic observation on life choices. The narrator indomitable to seize the day and express himself as an individual by choosing the road that was less(prenominal) travelled by. As a result of this decision, the narrator claims that his life was essentially different, that it would have been had he chosen the well-travelled path. This reading of the poem is tremendously popular because every reader can commiserate with the narrators decision having to choose between two paths without having any knowledge of where each road will lead. Moreover, the narrators decision to choose the less travelled path demonstrates his courage. Rather than taking the safe path that others have travelled, the narrator prefers to make his own way in the world.However, when we look scalelike at the text of the poem, it becomes clear that such an idealistic analysis is generally inaccurate. The narrator only distinguishes the paths from one another after he has already selected one and travelled many years through life. When he first comes upon the fork in the road, the paths are described as being fundamentally identical. In te rms of beauty, both paths are equally fair, and the overall passing there / Had worn them really about the same. It is only as an old man that the narrator looks back on his life and decides to place such importance on this particular decision in his life.During the first ternion stanzas, the narrator shows no sense of remorse for his decision nor might any acknowledgement that such a decision be important to his life. Yet, as an old man, the narrator attempts to give a sense of order to his erstwhile(prenominal) and perhaps explain why certain things happened to him. Of course, the excuse that he took the road less travelled by is false, but the narrator still clings to this decision as a defining moment of his life, not only because of the path that he chose but because he had to make a choice in the first place.So now, we will remember American poet, Robert Frost for his ingenious insert into such universal truths and how such knowledge can be extracted from his points of vie w. He is now gone from this Earth, but let us remember him, for his works, for invigorate us to take the road less taken when we come to our own cross roads, to temper our relationships with fire and ice. With these works, dear Robert has left us with enough knowledge and understanding to replace the hole that he has made.