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Personification- the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. "Why do we wish to bear forever the noise of these" (Frost, line 2-3) This shows a personification because it is saying trees can make human sounds even though they can't.

Symbolism- the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. "They are that that talks of going, but never gets away" (Frost, line 10-11) This is symbolic of people how we are stuck in a routine and go no where.

Metaphor- a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.  "And my head sways to my shoulder, sometimes when I watched trees sway" (Frost, line 16-17) This is a metphor for him swinging like the trees.

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Literary Devices for Love and a Question

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Literary Devices for Love and a Question

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Personification- the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. "And thought of the heart's desire." (Frost, line 20) In this line a heart is being given the human trait of desire.

Metaphor- a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. "Her face rose-red with the glowing coal" (Frost, line 19) This quote shows a metaphor because her face is not rose red because of the coals but because of blushing

Imagery- visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. "The woodbine leaves littered the yard, The woodbine berries were blue." (Frost, line 13-14) This quote shows imagery with how descriptive it is.

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The theme in this poem is about love and the challenges it will face in life. The poem begins with a stranger knocking at the bridegrooms door. As the poem progresse the bridegroom seems comfortable around the stranger and they hold a conversation under the night sky. In the thrid stanza the poem reads "The bridegroom looked at the weary road," (Frost, line 21) While the bridegroom is talking with the starnger his bride is inside peacefully awaiting by the fire. In the fourth and final stanza it discusses that the bridegroom does not know what he must have or do to be succesful in life and that he wishes he knew, but the one thing he knows for sure is that he loves his bride. The stranger who knocks on the bridegroom's front door represents the unknown challenges the newly married couple will have to face as they move through life together, hoping that love truly does conquer all. In the poem one line reads "With, ‘Let us look at the sky, And question what of the night to be, Stranger, you and I." (Frost, line 10-12) This quote shows the bridgegroom accepeting the stranger, which symbolically represents life's to come challenges, and ask him what of the night to be which is symbolic for him and his wife's fututre.
The structure of this poem is it is setup into four total stanzas, each stanza containing eight lines each. This is standard poem setup containing diffrent stanzas to show the story progression of the poem. This poem does not have any particular rhyme scheme to it, it is more a musical story. The meaning of this poem is to make the reader feel that while life is unpredictable and there are unknown things in a new couples future love. The meaning of this to Frost however ran even deeper. Throughout Frost's life he sadly lost all of his family, and has always been left alone, to him finding love means that with it you can over come any other obstacle. Robert Frost's harsh life is what has conditioned him to such highly value love, which it should be. Frost's life was hard and when writing this poem he had again sufffered a loss of love in his life.

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This poem is very unique in reference to some other poems by the same author, Robert Frost. It is written to personify trees as humans who are constantly voicing their opinions about wanting to leave or change. When the wind rustles the leaves, Frost compares this to the trees expressing their desire to move on and change. However, since they are rooted in the ground, this desire cannot be fulfilled. They are fastened to the earth as their branches move to heaven. As the trees converse and talk between themselves in the wind, all the conversation sounds like is meaningless noise, or wind. Slowly, the trees become up- rooted, "My feet tug at the floor And my head sways to my shoulder." (Frost 14-15) The meaning of being uprooted would be changing your path of life. However, this character does not have any roots keeping them down. He has knowledge and will to do good that is keeping him from being rooted in the ground. The noise of the trees does not effect those who are rooted in themselves and determination. "I shall set forth for somehwere, I shall make the reckless choice some day when they are in voice..." (Frost 19-22)

This poem teaches us to constantly be striving to be better than the guy next to us. It is our calling to better ourselves and make the life for us great, just as the trees who didn't make noise and were not rooted in the ground. Along with this, the structure of the poem is not very typical. It is not divided into stanzas but is in one big block of text. This is to create flow throughout all the lines, and not allow for separation of thought about the main ideas expressed. Robert Frost wrote this while in New England which was at the time experiencing struggles with those who were addicted to alcoholic beverages. It was called, the Prohibition, which banned the use of alcohol in all parts of Massachusetts. " Although the passage of the 18th Amendment outlawed the sale of intoxicating liquors, people continued to drink anyway. The alcoholic beverage industry went underground." (bostonglobe.com) This law effected the atmosphere of the whole town, and most likely Robert Frost as well. This made the tone/mood very mysterious and uplifting. The historical influence on this poem is shown throughout the entire nature of Robert Frost's poems.

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Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. Before Frost was born, his father, William Prescott Frost, decided to pursue an ambitious career of journalism in California. After Robert's birth, his father suffered a tragic death of tuberculosis in 1885. His mother, Isabelle Moodie Frost, took Robert and his sister to Lawrence, Massachusetts. There, the grandparents took custody of the two children for employment reasons. He met the love of his life, Elinor White, in high school. They both shared a love of poetry, and continued their education at Dartmouth College for Robert, and St. Lawrence University for Elinor. He then began to pursue his love of poetry by creating pieces on his own. The couple then married in 1895, however they found life to be difficult. Frost struggled finding a stable career, and supporting himself, his wife, and his six children two of whom died early. Later, his little family moved to Derry, New Hampshire where his love of New England style poetry began. However, still no publishers showed interest in his work. He began to become discouraged, since he was now 40 years old. Then all of a sudden, he decided to take a risk by selling his farm and moving the family to England where there was word of a better future in literature. His first poem was published in 1913 called "A Boy's Will" . This is when Robert Frost's career as a poetry artist took off. He published many works following this, which many people enjoyed. His fame even spread to America at a rapid pace. Soon, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his works entitled "New Hampshire" (1923), "Collected Poems" (1930), "A Further Range "(1936) and "A Witness Tree "(1942) . His life was lived with multiple honors about his unique poetry and style. He later died at age 88 from a heart attack. He is definitely considered today to be one of the most widely admired and honored poets of the 20th century.

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I wonder about the trees.

Why do we wish to bear

Forever the noise of these

More than another noise

So close to our dwelling place?

We suffer them by the day

Till we lose all measure of pace,

And fixity in our joys,

And acquire a listening air.

They are that that talks of going

But never gets away;

And that talks no less for knowing,

As it grows wiser and older,

That now it means to stay.

My feet tug at the floor

And my head sways to my shoulder

Sometimes when I watch trees sway,

From the window or the door.

I shall set forth for somewhere,

I shall make the reckless choice

Some day when they are in voice

And tossing so as to scare

The white clouds over them on.

I shall have less to say,

But I shall be gone.

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A Stranger came to the door at eve,

And he spoke the bridegroom fair.

He bore a green-white stick in his hand,

And, for all burden, care.

He asked with the eyes more than the lips

For a shelter for the night,

And he turned and looked at the road afar

Without a window light.

The bridegroom came forth into the porch

With, ‘Let us look at the sky,

And question what of the night to be,

Stranger, you and I.’

The woodbine leaves littered the yard,

The woodbine berries were blue,

Autumn, yes, winter was in the wind;

‘Stranger, I wish I knew.’

Within, the bride in the dusk alone

Bent over the open fire,

Her face rose-red with the glowing coal

And the thought of the heart’s desire.

The bridegroom looked at the weary road,

Yet saw but her within,

And wished her heart in a case of gold

And pinned with a silver pin.

The bridegroom thought it little to give

A dole of bread, a purse,

A heartfelt prayer for the poor of God,

Or for the rich a curse;

But whether or not a man was asked

To mar the love of two

By harboring woe in the bridal house,

The bridegroom wished he knew.

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