¶ … worked tirelessly to understand the literary works of a variety of authors including poets Pat Mora, Shirley Geok-Lim, John Keats, and Robert Frost, and short-story writer DH Lawrence. As we have compared the works of these poets and determined how common themes are shared, and through a deep reading and literature analysis of Lawrence's short, I have been able to explore different writing and analytical approaches that have allowed me to develop, review, and strengthen my writing style and capabilities.
One of the first assignments we were given was to perform a comparative analysis of two poets: John Keats and Robert Frost. In this paper, Keats' and Frost's individual fears are analyzed through a close reading of "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" and "The Road Not Taken," by Keats and Frost, respectively. These poems forced me to look beyond what Keats and Frost had written and analyze how symbols, metaphors, and imagery are used to convey the poets' individual perspective. Because the two poems were published a little less than a hundred years apart, this comparative analysis also allowed me to see and understand recurring themes and fears of individuals and the
Also, I was able to see how each poet viewed himself in relation to the natural world around him. Of the three papers, this one was my favorite because of its universal themes, which help me to better understand how people develop their individuality, and helps me to better understand why people make the choices they make, even when they are initially afraid to do so.
It was initially difficult for me to determine what elements of "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" and "The Road Not Taken" I was going to analyze, but as soon as was able to consider the multiple meanings hidden within the texts, I began to better understand what each poet must have been thinking. It is always difficult to analyze this type of poetry because I sometimes fear that I have misread something and have misinterpreted in my analysis. This piece is significant, in the terms of my writing, because it allowed me to explore poetry in a manner I had not considered before and also taught me what elements of literature I should pay attention to when reading and analyzing poetry.
In order to successfully determine what I was going to write about when comparing Keats and Frost, I performed a deep analysis of each poem on a line-by-line basis, which was then proceeded with an analysis of each stanza. It was important for me to perform these two types of analyses because I needed to first understand what each line meant and then I had to understand what each line meant within the context of the entire poem. This then allowed me to pick out common themes and literary devices, which would become the basis of my outline, and eventually, my paper. I would later use this poetry analysis approach to perform a comparative analysis of Mora and Lim's poems.
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