READING ASSIGNMENT
“Mending Wall” (starting p.220)
“After Apple Picking” (p. 228)
“The Road Not Taken” (starting p. 230)
“Fire and Ice” (p. 233)
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” (p. 233)
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (starting on p. 233)
“The Gift Outright” (p. 236)
PROMPT: Choose ONE poem from the selection we read by Robert Frost. In a short response, analyze the poem using poetic terminology (such as rhyme, meter, literary devices, speaker, tone, form, etc.) to your analysis.
Questions to consider as you write:
– How does the poem’s structure create meaning?
– What significance do certain literary devices (imagery, symbolism, metaphors, etc.) have in structuring that meaning?
– What is the theme/message, and how does that relate to the time period and/or Frost’s biography?
