Darwin's ideas challenged the belief that there were eternal moral truths which always and everywhere characterized human experience. (Hass, pp
Until the middle of the 19th century, it was taken for granted that the universe was constructed according to a divine plan. (Holder, pp
The rhythm of the poem seeks to emulate the rhythmic slapping sounds of the ocean water and the waves. For example, this device is apparent in all the stanzas, though in particularly the following stanza: "As long as it takes to pass/A ship keeps raising its hull;/The wetter ground like glass/Reflects a standing gull" (Frost)
Paths, like options, might look the same but we must realize that they will ultimately go in different directions. The poet realizes that it is impossible to be " travel both/and be one traveler" (Frost 2-3), facing the fact that he must choose path one over the other
Viewed philosophically, this opening stanza - and indeed the entire poem - has a certain aura of mystery about it. That is not too surprising; the author has been identified with embracing the literary tool of mystery by scholars like Keat Murray in Midwest Quarterly (Murray, 2000)
-- Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. (Wordsworth, 1888) In this particular case, Wordsworth's poetry sees Nature as "an emblem of God or the divine" (Brians, 1999), where Nature is the symbol of the spiritual world
They cannot look in deep. But when was that ever a bar To any watch they keep? (Frost, 1936) The simple rhyming and description in Frost's poem has the outer appearance of a poem about people looking out to sea
However, it is evident that there is a further meaning behind the rhythmic longing of searching for answers out at sea, and at the last stanza, a sense of cruel irony hits the poem. It is a showing of people choosing "between land and sea, the human and the inhuman, the finite and the infinite" (Jarrell, 1953)
-- Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. (Wordsworth, 1888) In this particular case, Wordsworth's poetry sees Nature as "an emblem of God or the divine" (Brians, 1999), where Nature is the symbol of the spiritual world
In addition to becoming a great American poet, he also tended toward bitterness and resented that his genius had not been recognized sooner. In spite of many awards he was angry that he never received the Nobel Prize for Literature (Lovett-Graff, PAGE)
Robert Lee Frost had secrets to keep. Born in San Francisco in 1874, his family had so many secrets that for many years he was not certain of the year of his birth (Meyers, p
Frost said the poem is about his friend Edward Thomas with whom he would walk through the woods near London. During these walks they would come to different paths and after choosing one Thomas would inevitably wonder what was missed by not taking the other path (Grimes, 2006)
what I actually know, which, of course, begs the question of "what can I really know about anything?") many of the fundamental precepts of the aforementioned therapies such as CBT, PCT, etc. I know that therapy works (Cooper, 2008)
I have so much to do and I am only in the nascent stages of my long-term career pursuits. But sometimes it's nice to stop, as the speaker does in the poem, and "watch the woods fill up with snow" (Frost, 1923)
For my long-term goal, which is to eventually open up my own practice and to specialize in grief and loss I have been doing more and more research on CBT and it's ability to effectively treat people suffering from Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is essentially a type of anxiety disorder that occurs after one has experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of death (Gelso & Fretz, 2001)
This is really interesting, at least to me. Studies I've read have shown there is a strong relationship between combat-related PTSD and physical health problems (Hoge, Terhakopian, Castro, Messer & Engel, 2007)
One pilot study published by The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease in 2007 found that acupuncture might help mitigate symptoms of PTSD. Of the 73 people diagnosed with PTSD and examined in the study, those who received acupuncture treatment and those in a separate group who were part of group-CBT treatment both achieved similar results that faired better than the control group (Hollifield, Sinclair-Lian, Warner, Hammerschlag, 2007)
To provide a little more clarification on what CBT is, it's an integrated approach that blends cognitive therapy, therapy that address the thoughts that produce and lead to maladaptive behaviors with behavioral therapy, therapy that focuses on curbing behavior (Gelso & Fretz, 2001). In a study conducted to find out how effective multiple-session psychological interventions were at preventing and treating traumatic related stress symptoms shortly after the event had occurred (within 3 months), the researches found that "Trauma-focused CBT was the only early intervention with convincing evidence of efficacy in reducing and preventing traumatic stress symptoms, but only for symptomatic individuals and particularly for those who met the diagnostic criteria for acute stress disorder or acute PTSD" (Roberts, Kitchiner, Kenardy & Bisson, 2009)
The lovely scene distracts the poet and in this way, nature becomes a symbol of serenity. Steven Monte agrees with this claim by stating that the poet "is leaving nature and returning to society, and in so doing makes us feel that there is some irony in the poem's title: he was only 'stopping by' nature, as if on a social call" (Monte)
Ice is equated with hate. Fire and ice are born in the dark reaches of inner space, in the smoldering, ice-sheathed human heart" (Hansen)