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  • Essay / Similarities and differences between Robert Frost and...

    In Frost's poem, two themes are isolation and choices. Isolation because the man is alone and wants to be alone, and the weather makes him feel lonely because people don't go out alone while it's snowing most of the time. The other in this poem is choices because the man must choose between going home to the village or looking at the snow which his horse does not agree with. But ultimately, he chooses to go home where it's warm and he can keep all his promises. In Poe's poem, the two themes are madness and love. Madness because the man in this poem is basically mad, he is talking to a bird if the bird is really there. Love is also a theme as he truly loved his wife and all he wants is to be with her. In both poems there is a man and the theme of the real world in Frost's poem is snow, which makes the man stay and watch, but if he stays he might die from cold. In Poe's poem it is night and it is windy and there are spirits outside and they come in in the form of the raven. Robert Frost's "Stopping in the Woods on a Snowy Evening" and Edgar Allen Poe's "The Crow" are very different yet similar in some ways, such as the way they took on life situations and turned them into poems was very different and similar. . The tone of the two poems was different. They both had a similar meaning. The biggest difference and similarity was in the themes of the two poems. Robert Frost and Edgar Allen Poe, just two men