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In the poem itself, Frost creates two distinct characters who have
different ideas about what exactly makes a person a good neighbor. The
narrator deplores his neighbor’s preoccupation with repairing the wall;
he views it as old-fashioned and even archaic.
Despite the narrator’s skeptical view of the wall, the neighbor maintains
his seemingly “old-fashioned” mentality, responding to each of the
narrator’s disgruntled questions and rationalizations with nothing more
than the adage: “Good fences make good neighbors.”
Ultimately, the presence of the wall between the properties does ensure
a quality relationship between the two neighbors. By maintaining the
division between the properties, the narrator and his neighbor are able
to maintain their individuality and personal identity as farmers: one of
apple trees, and one of pine trees. The act of meeting to repair the wall
allows the two men to develop their relationship and the overall
community far more than if each maintained their isolation on separate
properties.
At the opening of the second paragraph, Donne returns to his idea that
“no man is an island,” indicating that everyone is connected to every
other human being in some way.
The Map of the World Confused with Its Territory | Susan Stewart
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The Map of the World Confused with Its Territory | Susan Stewart
Yertle the Turtle is hands down the worst kind of turtle. He's the one who
bosses everyone around just so that he can have the best view in the
pond. And he lives in a pond, so it's not even all that swanky. He
commands all of the other turtles to do as he pleases and gets all, "Oh
no you didn't" when anybody questions him.
The eponymous story revolves around Yertle the Turtle, the king of the
pond. Dissatisfied with the stone that serves as his throne, he commands
the other turtles to stack themselves beneath him so that he can see
farther and expand his kingdom. However, the stacked turtles are in pain
and Mack, the turtle at the very bottom of the pile, is suffering the most.
Mack asks Yertle for a respite, but Yertle just tells him to be quiet. Then
Yertle decides to expand his kingdom and commands more and more
turtles to add to his throne. Mack makes a second request for a respite
because the increased weight is now causing extreme pain to the turtles
at the bottom of the pile, as well as hunger. Again, Yertle yells at Mack
to be quiet. Then Yertle notices the moon rising above him as the night
approaches. Furious that something "dares to be higher than Yertle the
King", he decides to call for even more turtles in an attempt to rise above
it. However, before he can give the command, Mack decides he has had
enough. He burps, which takes away Yertle's throne and tosses the turtle
king off the turtle stack and into the water, leaving him "King of the Mud"
and freeing the others.
The proverb has come down in many variations over the centuries. It
describes a situation in which a failure to anticipate or correct some
initially small dysfunction leads by successively more critical stages to an
egregious outcome. The rhyme's implied small difference in initial
conditions is the lack of a spare horseshoe nail, relative to a condition of
its availability.[1] At a more literal level, it expresses the importance
of military logisticsin warfare.
Much of Jeffers' poetry was written in narrative and epic form, but he is
also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the
environmental movement.
In The Answer, one gets the sense that Jeffers could see the gathering
storm.
The one feature that clearly distinguishes the two poems is the time-
frame in which the poem exists and this difference gives rise to a
difference in form. ‘Gift’ is one moment, and that moment is lived
through in one stanza which holds it together. That poem does have a
simple sequential quality, but it is not just a sequence of events – it is a
sequence of images and feelings.
Four stanzas that don’t so much have a story but a whirling round of
emotions that suggest overthinking of a long thought through subject.
"'Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles' is taken from a sign I found outside
a hostel in Lijiang, China, a beautiful city in the Yunnan province. It was a
sign with the English phrase, the number 2418 and Chinese characters,
which were indistinguishable to me. I imagine traveling for 2,418 miles
alone, and at the time, I think I'd traveled even further than that, going
halfway around the world in utter silence. The beauty and loneliness of
those experiences will stay with me my whole life, and that's why I wrote
this poem." — Sally Wen Mao
Ophelia Jubran