Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening / Mending Wall (Robert Frost)

Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening Considering questions -> Metre: AABA, BBCB, CCDC,DDDD (Iambic pentameter) -> Structure? Voice? Tone? Sublime vs Banal Apart/ a part Natural life /city life He knows he cants stay in the moment, is dragged into the lullaby but snaps out of it in the break-in rhyme (AABA) Tone […]

Book 23-24

Book 24 Summary: Hermes guides suitors to fields of asphodel Achilles and Agamemnon simp for each other Meets Laertes, tortures father Ithacan’s plot against him (suitors Fathers) Gods interfere Notes: Finally, Penelope gets some recognition by Agamemnon, even though it was completely fueled by the fact her actions were opposite to his own wife. Odysseus’s […]

On first looking into CAT 3

This is my renewed rewritten and reviewed rendition of CAT 3, ‘On first looking into Chapman’s Homer” On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer BY JOHN KEATS Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;Round many western islands have I beenWhich bards in fealty to Apollo hold.Oft of one wide […]