Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", and Octavio Paz's "The Street".
Title: Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", and Octavio Paz's "The Street".
Category: /Literature/World Literature
Details: Words: 737 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", and Octavio Paz's "The Street".
Category: /Literature/World Literature
Details: Words: 737 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", and Octavio Paz's "The Street" share similar themes in that they all explore solitude and insightfulness. There is an interesting contrast within this group of poems, especially between the Frost and Wordsworth poems and Paz's illustration. The first two poems are gentle and simple in their tone, whereas the last is quite solemn and worrisome. Frost and Wordsworth …showed first 75 words of 737 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 737 total…go, stopping for a moment to absorb the beauty of nature is important to him. In the William Wordsworth poem we are shown that in a time of loneliness, reflecting back on a picturesque memory is what pulls him through the darkness. In Octavio Paz's poem, the speaker is alone and tense; running from the isolation seems to be his way of escape. All three poems are interesting reflections on one similar theme; being alone.