Once by the Pacific by Robert Frost
"Once by the Pacific," by Robert Frost is about how people are destroying the Earth slowly. After a while people destroy what was once created, they don't do it on purpose but they do it for something good. The extended metaphor in this poem is what was once created will always be destroyed. You cannot have creation without some form of destruction. This poem uses sonnet, which is a rhyme scheme that has 14 lines and 5 stress syllables in each line. The rhyme scheme goes aa,bb,cc,dd, etc. This poem uses personification in several lines, one for example is "The shore was lucky in being backed by a cliff," having luck is a human characteristic. "Once by the Pacific," also includes imagery, "The shattered water made a misty din." This line created the image of the water over a lake, ocean, or some body of water to be colder than the night was. It was creating mist from the two temperatures colliding. This poem really got me thinking about how much we do destroy was is created. We don't do it on purpose but we do it for the good of us and we do it to find things we need or want. This is my favorite poem by Robert Frost, it made me realize that we do destroy what is there for us to destory. What he is saying in true and this is one of his best works.
The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves look over other coming in, And thought of doing something to the shore The water never did to land before. The cloud were low and hairy in the skies, Like lock blown forward in the gleam of eyes. You could not tell, and yet it looked as if The shore was lucky in being back by a cliff, The cliff in being back by a continent; It looked as if a night of dark intent Wad coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Befroe God's last "Put out the light" was spoken.
"Once by the Pacific," by Robert Frost is about how people are destroying the Earth slowly. After a while people destroy what was once created, they don't do it on purpose but they do it for something good. The extended metaphor in this poem is what was once created will always be destroyed. You cannot have creation without some form of destruction. This poem uses sonnet, which is a rhyme scheme that has 14 lines and 5 stress syllables in each line. The rhyme scheme goes aa,bb,cc,dd, etc. This poem uses personification in several lines, one for example is "The shore was lucky in being backed by a cliff," having luck is a human characteristic. "Once by the Pacific," also includes imagery, "The shattered water made a misty din." This line created the image of the water over a lake, ocean, or some body of water to be colder than the night was. It was creating mist from the two temperatures colliding. This poem really got me thinking about how much we do destroy was is created. We don't do it on purpose but we do it for the good of us and we do it to find things we need or want. This is my favorite poem by Robert Frost, it made me realize that we do destroy what is there for us to destory. What he is saying in true and this is one of his best works.
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves look over other coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
The water never did to land before.
The cloud were low and hairy in the skies,
Like lock blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being back by a cliff,
The cliff in being back by a continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Wad coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Befroe God's last "Put out the light" was spoken.