robert frost overview Flashcards
enjambment
when the lines run together
at whose inauguration did Frost speak
JFK
which president quoted mending wall and at what occasion
Raegan at the tearing of the Berlin Wall
which poem of Frost’s was quoted in the Outsiders
Nothing Gold can Stay
what is the road not taken all about
choices
unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter called
blank verse
what person is we and why is it important that frost chose that person for “The gift outright”
1st person
it is plural and it tries to involve the reader
“He moves in darkness as it seems to me
mending wall
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Road not taken
like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
Before them over their heads to dry in the sun
Birches
It’s when I’m weary of consideration, and Life is too much like a pathless wood
Birches
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep
Stopping by Woods
Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found out that it was ourselves
the Gift outright
does every poem have a theme
no
where is robert frost from
new england
