An Excerpt From 'The Epilogue To The Snow Storm'

David Ives’ “The Blizzard” does a good job of making people analyze their selves and their everyday life. His drama has the capabilities of making people ask many questions about themselves. Why do I follow a routine? Why do I settle for the same things over and over again? How do I break this cycle? What could I be doing differently with my life? It makes many people realize just how routine oriented they are. It also brings to light the fear and unwillingness to change that some people have.

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a very well know poem by Robert Frost. The poem appears to be very simple, but it has a hidden meaning to it. The simple words and rhyme scheme of the poem gives it an easy flow, which adds to the calmness of the poem. The rhyme scheme (aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd) and the rhythm (iambic tetrameter) give the poem a solid structure. The poem is about the speaker’s experience of stopping by the dark woods in the winter evening with his horse and admiring the beauty of the fresh fallen snow in the forest. Then, the speaker projects himself into the mind of his horse, speculating about his horse’s practical concerns and the horse

Okay… Well, who is he? Snowman (or Jimmy, as I will refer to him) is a perplexing character from Atwood’s first introduction. He is living as the only human man among a colony of “Crakers” over whom he appears to be some kind of godly leader. As he wallows in his past we discover him to be almost tragic; a cruel and manipulative lover, void of any real emotionally intimate relationships, who now spends all of his time thinking, reflecting and obsessing over his past. For a man who “is not his childhood”- we sure hear a lot about it! Which tells us that his past is critical in understanding who he is as a character.

      were one and the same.  In an interview he said, 'One thing I care about,

What is the goal in a poem? Why do writers write? Most poems are an attempt to pass on a message, to give a moral, or in any case, to communicate in one way or another. An example of a writer doing this in a poem may be seen in An Old Man's Winter Night, by Robert Frost. Robert Frost (1874-1963) wrote An Old Man's Winter Night, perhaps his most well conceived work and published it in the book 'Mountain Interval', released in 1920 as a fine peak to his career. The poem tells the story of the last night before an old man's death. This man is portrayed as being lonely, and without meaning to anyone except for himself. The old man seems to realize this in a certain point in the poem, and decides that he no longer wants to live. He then goes to

In the short essay “Let it Snow”, David Sedaris recounts his 5th grade adventures during a week of five consecutive snow days in North Carolina. The author shows how alcoholism affected his family and explain that managed to explain that a life of a family can also be positive. Many interesting points were brought up concerning raising children. Sedaris’s article fulfills the destinies intended for us, which will give our lives full meaning and how we children will end up with all sorts of problems. “Our presents had disrupted the secret life she led while we were at school, and when she could no longer take it she threw us out (Quoted in Sedaris, 11). His mother’s extreme frustration of him and his sisters, the Sedaris clearly appeal to the reader’s pathos. The author managed to relate to adults who have been irritated with their children before, but he can also relate to anyone who has ever been a child extremely excited by the idea of a snow day. Moreover, Sedaris’ work was a powerful example of the anger, frustration, and the raw emotion is felt by most parents when school is canceled.

to ignite the fire in order to heat up the house and give comfort to

In Robert Frost’s poem “To the Thawing Wind,” in the literal sense, he is asking the Southwest wind to come, melt the snow and bring spring, but symbolically he is tired of the winter and wants warm weather. He wants to burst out of his cabin and have a good time, not thinking about poetry. The poet has been confined in his winter cabin and is wanting the wind and rain to melt the snow, so it will change his winter isolation. He has been longing for the “thawing wind” because that is when spring is coming. He is anticipating spring to come because it will bring him inspiration and the freedom needed to be able to do new things and enjoy everything good that comes with this season.

They had to wait a little while, so they went for a little wander around the restaurant and took a glance out the window at the amazing view of the ocean. “Oh, it’s snowing outside”. “Oh no, i left the window open at home”. So they dashed home as rapidly as they could to shut the window. When they got home Tahlee sprinted inside and Missy casually tiptoed behind. When Tahlee ran inside she found that her bedroom was full of, nothing just cold air. “Fewwww” sighed Tahlee. She closed the window and drove back out to Hogs Breath to finish eating their lunch. After they finished their lunch they traveled back home and played in the snow. Tahlee and Missy had a snowball fight and obviously Tahlee won because Missy doesn’t have arms. Missy went of to have a long sleep in her extremely warm kennel. She was asleep for about an hour so not very long atall. She woke up and went to go and look for her secret stash of socks that she hides. She walked through the broad. layer of snow but for some reason none of the socks where there. Missy walked around with a depressed face looking for them. She wined and wined and wined until Tahlee said “Missy can you please be quiet”. So Missy listened to what Tahlee said and very slowly dawdled back to her soft warm bed. Missy decided not to go to bed instead she wanted to investigate where all her socks are. She put on her pink fedora and set of to

In life, we all get overwhelmed at some point or another. In “Let It Snow” that is a major factor. The author, David Sedaris, who is also the narrator, tells his story of consecutive snow days he encountered. His three sisters, and him are presented with a tricky situation. I enjoyed evaluating this story. There are multiple ways I could relate to the main point of this story, which is family sticks together.

The doctor comes to a look at the patient. A child about the age of nine is laying on the hospital bed. Thin short blonde hair, brown eyes, his skin seemed pale as a sign of malnutrition. The child turns his head towards the doctor as he way lying on the hospital bed. He tries his best to say anything the doctor but he doesn’t have the power to. He’s just lying there helpless. The doctor shares a moment of eye contact with the child and then looks down towards his report to see how the patient is doing. His pulse is unusual, blood pressure is very high, his heart is beating very fast, and his body temperature is extremely high. The doctor looks at the child and asks him “Are you feeling any better ?” with a lot of effort, the child could barely

As Freud pointed out at the beginning of the twentieth-century dreams are "the royal road to the unconscious" ("The Interpretation of Dreams," n.p.). As encrypted messages addressed by the irrational unconscious to the rational consciousness dreams hence act as vehicle between both entities occurring in an intermediary subconscious layer. Similarly poetry might be considered as a medium bridging the collective unconscious and the conditioned mindset of a given culture, by imprinting symbolic content onto the subconscious interface. Such a comparison is pushed forward and takes a figurative turn in Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." The structural elements of the poem, as well as the landscape, the scene and the characters converge to draw a perfect allegory for a dream, through which Frost implies

Paul,Lexi and Brandi took a plane all the way to New England to research a notorious asylum in Newton,connecticut Fairfield Hills Hospital which housed more than 4,000 patients. When they got there they were amazed by how huge it was it was hundreds of acres. Brandi said “let’s get this over with” Paul and Lexi both agreed so they headed in and the first thing they saw was a dusty and broken down table and as soon as they took a step the door closed but it was not locked so they didn’t think nothing of it so they headed upstairs and down the hall and they saw a lot of rooms with mattress like padding on the wall. They settled in because they would be staying there for a while and they went downstairs because they were going to research everything downstairs when Paul heard a loud thud and Paul said “did anybody hear that and

Sigmund Freud, arguably the greatest psychologist to ever live, once said, "One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go” (Freud). In most cases, Freud’s comparison of the relationship between a rider and his horse with that of the ego to the id would be an intelligent and correct observation, however Frost flips this situation on its head. In the short poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Frost depicts a theme of obsession, using the horse as the riders conscience, or ego, and the rider as the id, delving on his addiction. The poem takes the rider on a journey through obsession from him stopping to watch the woods fill with snow, to his horse reminding him of his journey, to his eventual success in ridding himself of obsession and continuing the journey set before him.

A week later, the Jamins almost didn 't sleep. This Sunday, they set out at 7 in the morning. It was mild. What a nice day! It was no more than 2 km from the park. The park was right in front of them. At a cross, they stopped, waiting to go straight. What 's better, there were only 2 cars. They didn 't need to worry about getting stuck. Listening to the DVD, they were all pleased. However, a truck driver who was still sleepy, running a red light. The truck was running straight towards the the east side. The driver didn 't wake up until the truck crashed into a van. Mrs.Jamin phoned 911 immediately. Mr.Jamin got out of his car, running towards the van. The van was damaged badly. The driver and Mr.Jamin tried their best to help the young