Like the Statue of Liberty, the Colossus of Rhodes was an enormous god-like statue positioned in a harbor. Lazarus compares the Statue of Liberty to the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It also has one of the greatest placements in history. Inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, this sonnet may have the greatest placement of any English poem. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. Glows world-wide welcome her mild eyes command Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand With conquering limbs astride from land to land “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) That is why this is a great poem, from a basic or close reading perspective. The striving is reconstituted and complicated here in reflection, but our hero wants to make a difference and so should we. If nothing else, readers are left with the impression that our narrator, who commands beautiful verse, profound imagery, and time itself (“ages and ages hence”) puts value on striving to make a difference. The ending is the most clear and striking part. Then is this poem not about the question “How to make a difference in the world?” after all? No. In this, we see the universality of human beings: the roads leading to carpenter and banker being basically the same and the carpenters and bankers at the end of them-seeming like individuals who made significant choices-really being just part of the collective of the human race. For example, we might imagine a young man choosing between being a carpenter or a banker later seeing great significance in his choice to be a banker, but in fact there was not much in his original decision at all other than a passing fancy. In a sense, “The Road Not Taken” tears apart the traditional view of individualism, which hinges on the importance of choice, as in the case of democracy in general (choosing a candidate), as well as various constitutional freedoms: choice of religion, choice of words (freedom of speech), choice of group (freedom of assembly), and choice of source of information (freedom of press). We are left to ponder if the narrator had instead traveled down “The Road Not Taken” might it have also made a difference as well. This poem deals with that big noble question of “How to make a difference in the world?” On first reading, it tells us that the choice one makes really does matter, ending: “I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.”Ī closer reading reveals that the lonely choice that was made earlier by our traveling narrator maybe wasn’t all that significant since both roads were pretty much the same anyway (“Had warn them really about the same”) and it is only in the remembering and retelling that it made a difference. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (1874-1963) You can also submit analyses of classic poetry to They will be considered for publication on this website.ġ0 Greatest Sonnets Concerning Other Poetsġ0 Greatest Poems about Death: A Grim Reader
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Many good poems and poets had to be left off of this list. Each poem is followed by some brief analysis. From least greatest (10) to greatest greatest (1), the poems in this list are limited to ones originally written in the English language and which are under 50 lines, excluding poems like Homer’s Iliad, Edgar Allan Poe’s “Raven,” Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, and Lord Byron’s mock epic Don Juan. What is poetry? What is great poetry? The poems below answer these questions.