my favourite poet

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” Robert Frost once said and cannot help but agree with him.
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. He moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, though he never earned a formal degree.
Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem, "My Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent.
In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration in his poetry until her death in 1938.The couple moved to England in 1912, after their New Hampshire farm failed, and it was abroad that Frost met and was influenced by such contemporary British poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves.
By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had published two full-length collections, and his reputation was established. By the nineteen-twenties, he was the most celebrated poet in America,
The author of searching and often dark meditations on universal themes, he is a quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken, in the psychological complexity of his portraits, and in the degree to which his work is infused with layers of ambiguity and irony.
i first got to know of him when i was in primary 4, when my sister's literature text was a book entitled "Robert Frost's Poems" by Louis Untermeyer. at that time i had no interest in poems and have not touched the book till now. flipping through the pages, i realise that Louis has gave a detail analysis of almost each poem.
the three poems that i picked are:

1. the gift outright
2. a considerable speck
3. the silken tent

these three poems are the most quoted poems by Robert which illustrate his ever- growing and increasing variety.i would recommend everyone to read his poems and maybe you might get some enlightenment.

it lesson 1

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

1. the use of figurative speech in the poem is evident. in the first line, "Nature's first green is gold," it is a symbolism as green cannot be gold, the line is to show that nature is very important, just as important as gold to humans.In line 2, hue is just a colour or shade and it cannot be hold on to. it is a metaphor. from line 3-5, the figurative speech used is also a metaphor as the leaves are not flowers but the leaves are as beautiful as flowers.
2. i like this poem by robert frost as it is simple yet full of meaning. it describes the importance of nature from, "green is gold" and "early leaf's are flower". even though i did not study the poem in depth, i know that there is a strong message behind it.
   

My favourite character in Village by the sea

My favourite character in Village By The Sea is Lila. She is the older sister of Bela and Kamal and takes over a parenting role in her dysfunctional family. Although she has an severely ill mother and a irresponsible father, she is resilient and is often concerned over the bleak future of she and her family. Out of all her qualities throughout the book, i would just be discussing three of her qualities:filial piety, dutifulness and frugality. Lila is a filial daughter.This is evident from"She stopped to add a little extra milk to it" and "Lila lift her head and help her drink in little sips from the tumbler". From this, we can deduce that Lila was very filial towards her mother. This can be seen from the way she fed the mother and even added extra milk in the tumbler before letting her mother drink when milk was so expensive and precious to them. Lila is also a dutiful sister. This is evident from" She made them tea" and " stay home and do the cooking and washing and look after the others". From the evidence, we can say that Lila is a dutiful sister as she is fully aware with her family's situation and has no choice but to take on the "mother" role in the family.She also performs her daily chores and duties without complaint. Lila is also frugal. This is evident in"Lila was not used to being rich."and "she bought some jaola."From the evidence provided, we can conclude that she is frugal as she bought the cheapest fish one could find even with the amount of money Hari gave her. In conclusion, Lila is a filial, dutiful and frugal daughter, sister and "mother" respectively.I admire her because of her array of qualities displayed throughout the book which helped her through the obstacles in her life.

My favourite part in Village by the sea

My favourite part in Village by the sea is in Chapter 13, as it wraps up the whole story in a very fairy tale manner. It also gives the reader a feeling that Hari and his family has managed to overcome multiple obstacles and challenges that they faced throughout the story and emerged victorious. Hari goes to Bombay and got a job in a restaurant and even learns the skill of watch mending in the midst. He earns a small fortune and gets home to support his family financially. On the other hand, Hari’s mother gets free treatment at a hospital while their father kicks the habit of drinking toddy. They have a happy family reunion and their family relation improves compared to the starting of the book.
After reading this part of the story, I would silently be happy for Hari and his family as they overcame all odds to transform their dysfunctional family into one that has always been a dream world for Hari, Lila, Bela and Kamal. I also gives me a sense of relieve that their hardships are all over and that life is filed withed many opportunities and chances which are just waiting for someone to come along and grab them. We can also learn that no matter how tough some tasks might be, there will always be a glimmer of hope that will guide us out of the ordeal just like it did for Hari.