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Poet: Robert Frost
Poem: 18.
Range-Finding
Volume: Mountain Interval
Year: Published/Written in 1916
Comment 2 of 2, added on February 26th, 2006 at 4:00 AM.
Frost has used a calm & peaceful setting in the nature to express the violence of war. He wrote this poem in 1916, during the middle of World War One and he challenges the reader's attitude about war. His use of full-stops to make pauses in his poem create a slow rhythm and produces a sense of deep sorrow and death. In the first line of the poem, "The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung" metaphorically means that the soldiers are entering the trap of war. The alliteration of "s" and "t" sounds effectively creates a death & sorrowful theme and successfully illustrates the losses caused by warfare.In the last line, Frost has used another stong emotional effect when he says "finding nothing, sullenly withdrew". This phrase literally means that there is no fly in the spider's trap but when it is looked in a more complex manner, it means that there are no winners in wars, there is no victory but only loses of lives.
Benny from Australia
Comment 1 of 2, added on May 27th, 2005 at 9:28 AM.
I think,this is one of best poetries reflecting battle and its effects on people and nature.It is impossible to be desensitized after reading this poetry.
melisa from Turkey
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Frost has used a calm & peaceful setting in the nature to express the violence of war. He wrote this poem in 1916, during the middle of World War One and he challenges the reader's attitude about war. His use of full-stops to make pauses in his poem create a slow rhythm and produces a sense of deep sorrow and death. In the first line of the poem, "The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung" metaphorically means that the soldiers are entering the trap of war. The alliteration of "s" and "t" sounds effectively creates a death & sorrowful theme and successfully illustrates the losses caused by warfare.In the last line, Frost has used another stong emotional effect when he says "finding nothing, sullenly withdrew". This phrase literally means that there is no fly in the spider's trap but when it is looked in a more complex manner, it means that there are no winners in wars, there is no victory but only loses of lives.
Benny from Australia