Thursday, May 21 Robert Frost poems

In class: you are reading two poems by Robert Frost. (class handout / copy below)  Please respond to the accompanying questions and paragraph.

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Below are two poems by the poet Robert Frost: Acquainted with the Night and Nothing Gold Can Stay.  Please respond to the questions for Acquainted and write a paragraph explaining how the theme of  Nothing Gold Can Stay is either true about life, or untrue, depending on your opinion. Use examples from your own life. Avoid “I think” and “I believe.”

Acquainted with the Night

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly height, O luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

From "New Hampshire", 1923 1. Why do you think “I have” is repeated so often? _________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Give an example of personification in the poem? _________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What is the mood of the poem and what text supports this? _______________________________________________________________________________

Her hardesNothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Write a paragraph explaining how the theme of this poem is either true about life, or untrue, depending on your opinion. Use examples from your own life as examples.

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