poetry blog dickinson and frost

Week 10, Poetry Blog.

In this week’s reading we had to read the following poems by Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, The Pasture, Mowing, My November Guest, Storm Fear, Mending Wall, Home Burial, The Wood Pile, After Apple- Picking, Birches, An Old Man’s Winter Night, Out! Out! , The Oven Bird, Fire and Ice, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Un harvested , Neither out Far Nor in Deep , Design, “In White”: An Early Version Of Design, On The Living Part Of A Poem. We also had to read the following poems by Emily Dickinson. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking, If I Shouldn’t Be Alive, The Thought  Beneath So Light A  Film, To Make A Practice It Takes A Clover And One Bee, Success is counted Sweetest, Some things that fly there be, Water is taught by thirst, Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (1859), Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers (1861), Portraits Are To Daily Faces, Some Keep The Sabbath Going to church, “ Heaven – Is What I Cannot Reach.,  “Hope” Is The Thing With Feathers , The Robins’ My Criterion For Tune, I like A Look Of Agony, Wild Nights – Wild Nights!, What Soft Cherubic Creatures , The soul Selects Her Own Society, Much Madness is Divinest Sense, I dwell in Possibility, They Dropped Like Flakes, After Wo, I Heard A Fly Buzz – When I Died, One Need Not Be A Chamber – To Be Haunted, Because I Could Not Stop For Death,  I felt a Cleaving In My Mind, A light Exists In Spring, Oh Sumptuous Moment , The Bustle In A house,  Tell All The Truth  But Tell It In A Slant, There IS No Frigate Like A Book , Fame Is The One That Does Not Stay.   The first poem I chose to write about was If I can stop one heart from breaking by Emily Dickinson. From reading the words in this poem it sounds as if her heart had been broken by someone she really cared about. She had experienced pain that cut so deep into her soul that she did not wish this kind of misery on anyone else. The next poem I chose to write about was success is counted Sweetest by Emily Dickinson.  This poem talks about success as being the thing that the less fortunate strive to achieve and when they do it means so much more to them than those that reach success easily. It is kind of like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I agree with this definition of success. I believe that to comprehend means to obtain and understand what one is striving for. Nectar is referring to the level of success one is trying to achieve. The defeated understand what victory better than the victorious because they have gone through a lot more hurdles than someone who is victorious easier. The last line of the poem I believe is meant to mean that when the success was finally attained it was through a lot of hard work and sacrifice. The third poem I chose to write about was “Heaven” is   what I cannot reach! By Emily Dickinson .  She treats  Heaven as an unobtainable goal. To me Heaven is obtainable If you know how to get there which is through Jesus Christ. I believe the person who is telling this longs to reach Heaven but does not know how. The next poem that I chose to write about was Home Burial by Robert Frost. This poem speaks of a father and mother who have lost a child. The father has to dig a grave to bury their child in. I think that this is was very hard on him. He so wants for his wife to stay and talk to him instead of leaving and turning to someone else. The mother however feels that he does not care that their child is dead since he was able to dig the grave and go on about his day as if nothing happened. This is a good example of the different ways men and women handle their feelings and emotions. The last poem I chose was Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. Fire is like the desires burning hot in people, maybe even their lies burning inside them. Ice is like the cold hearted people who hate everything and everyone.