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    Analysis of Stars by Robert Frost

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    The poem "Stars" by Robert Frost comments on the natural beauty of stars through descriptive language and comparison. Frost uses metaphors to describe the stars, comparing them to snow and the marble eyes of the goddess Minerva. These comparisons highlight the stars' beauty. The poem also notes that stars will always be present in the night sky, watching over humanity, making human lives feel small in comparison to the immense number of stars.

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    The poem "Stars" by Robert Frost comments on the natural beauty of stars through descriptive language and comparison. Frost uses metaphors to describe the stars, comparing them to snow and the marble eyes of the goddess Minerva. These comparisons highlight the stars' beauty. The poem also notes that stars will always be present in the night sky, watching over humanity, making human lives feel small in comparison to the immense number of stars.

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    The poem "Stars" by Robert Frost comments on the natural beauty of stars through descriptive language and comparison. Frost uses metaphors to describe the stars, comparing them to snow and the marble eyes of the goddess Minerva. These comparisons highlight the stars' beauty. The poem also notes that stars will always be present in the night sky, watching over humanity, making human lives feel small in comparison to the immense number of stars.

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    Analysis of Stars by Robert Frost

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    The poem "Stars" by Robert Frost comments on the natural beauty of stars through descriptive language and comparison. Frost uses metaphors to describe the stars, comparing them to snow and the marble eyes of the goddess Minerva. These comparisons highlight the stars' beauty. The poem also notes that stars will always be present in the night sky, watching over humanity, making human lives feel small in comparison to the immense number of stars.

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    Drew Dacanay

    Ms. Weverka

    English 5-6

    May 26, 2022

    Analysis of Stars

    In the poem Stars Robert Frost comments on the natural beauty of stars and how in

    comparison they make human life feel small.

    Robert Frost uses metaphor comparing stars to objects to comment on their natural

    beauty. In the first stanza Frost compares the stars to the snow. Snow is being blown around

    covering trees, yet the stars still shine and are the first thing mentioned in the poem. This

    suggests that the stars' light and beauty are so overpowering that they show through the snow. In

    the third and last stanza of the poem the stars are compared to “Minerva’s snow-white marble

    eyes Without the gift of sight.” Minerva is the Roman equivalent to the goddess Athena, and her

    eyes being marble makes me think of a statue. The comparison says that stars are beautiful like

    the eyes of a marble statue, but they are distant objects that watch down on us but don't see

    anything.

    Robert Frost uses descriptive language to comment on how stars make human life feel

    small in comparison. The poem starts off with the word “How countlessly they congregate.” This

    line paints a picture of a night sky full of stars, an amount that can’t be counted, giving human

    life a sense of scale. Then in the second stanza Frost describes how the stars are always there.

    Although they are “Invisible at dawn,--” they always reappear when the night comes again. This

    description of stars uses “Invisible at dawn” instead of disappearing at dawn, to say that the stars

    are always there. Stars will outlive our lifetimes, compared to us they are immortal; and there are
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    more than we could ever imagine. The scale and amount of stars puts the scale of human life into

    perspective.

    In conclusion Stars by Robert Frost comments on the beauty of the stars, by comparing

    them to objects and by talking about the stars in relation to humans. Stars are beautiful, distant

    and near imortal objects that watch over humans.

    Part 2

    1. In the video I included images of starry night skies to portray the natural beauty and

    wonder of the stars.

    2. I included an image of a person's silhouette against the starry night sky to show the

    smallness of humans compared to the near infinite volume of stars in the night sky.

    3. I included an image of a marble statue of Minerva like it was mentioned in the poem. I

    did this to explain the part of the poem, because it isn't clear who Minerva is.

    4. I read the poem slowly and emphasized certain words because that is the way Frost

    intended the poem to be read.

    5. I chose a song that matched the mood of the poem, I thought the poem had a slow mood

    with some happy feeling inside, I chose a song that I felt matched this mood.

    6. I included a picture of snowy trees to correspond with the section that mentions snow, I

    did this to compare the natural beauty of the stars to the frosty trees and winter

    atmosphere.

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