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Mordecai Marcus Leaves Quot Frost
227 wordsMordecai Marcus In " Gathering Leaves" Frost makes a lighthearted return to a season of decline, which the speaker tries to bring to an end by struggling endlessly, it seems fill bags of autumn leaves. Concise, homey similes show the difficulty of the task. Spades are spoon like in their slight ability to gather the overflow of leaves; the airiness of the leaves makes full bags resemble balloons; the noise of rustling leaves, " like rabbit and deer / Running away, " seems out...
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Mordecai Marcus Quot Tombstones
257 wordsMordecai Marcus " In a Disused Graveyard" follows three poems that glance with various degrees of wistfulness at disappointed ideals that end in uncertainty or death. Here the speaker gently mocks peoples unwillingness to die and gives stones the ability to see and say that death has ceased. The scene, however, is concrete: a New England graveyard no longer used because its community has faded. But visitors still come to read the tombstones, not out of affectionate attachment but out o...
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Stopping By Woods Mordecai Marcus
1,676 wordsRandall Jarrell First of all, of course, the poem is simply there, in indifferent unchanging actuality; but our thought about it, what we are made to make of it, is there too, made to be there. When we choose between land and sea, the human and the inhuman, the finite and the infinite, the sea has to be the infinite that floods in over us endlessly, the hypnotic monotony of the universe that is incommensurable with us everything into which we look neither very far nor very deep, but look, look j...
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Gold Can Stay Mordecai Marcus
3,490 wordsAlfred R. Ferguson Perhaps no single poem more fully embodies the ambiguous balance between paradisiac good and the paradoxically more fruitful human good than " Nothing Gold Can Stay, " a poem in which the metaphors of Eden and the Fall cohere with the idea of felix culpa. Six versions of the poem exist, the first sent to George R. Elliott in March, 1920, in three eight-line stanzas under the title " Nothing Golden Stays. " In this version the poem lacked any Edenic metaphor...
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Quot Quot Manifest Destiny
2,583 wordsAlbert J. Von Frank The ominous thirteenth line of Robert Frosts " The Gift Outright" is made to appear all the more ominous by its entire lack of tonal and grammatical relationship with any thing else in the poem, an isolation signalled, of course, by the parentheses. Almost by itself this line justifies Frosts own characterization of the poem as being " about Revolutionary War, " rather than, in a more general way, about the forming of a spiritual commitment to the land. Om...
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