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A Patch of Old Snowby: Robert Frost

There's a patch of old snow in a corner
That I should have guessed
Was a blow-away paper the rain
Had brought to rest.

It is speckled with grime as if
Small print overspread it,
The news of a day I've forgotten--
If I ever read it.

When I first read it, I didn't really understand what it means. I thought the author was talking about the actual snow which had been dirty. But I asked Mr. Craig and he said it was about a scrumbled paper in the corner that just has been useless, wet and messed up. The author compared crumbled paper and snowball. At last, when the author said that he has forgotten, we can know that the paper contains a lot of important news but is became useless, thrown away in the corner where nobody can see it. I think the theme of this poem is from small things, there always may be something important and worthy.

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The Night Has a Thousand Eye
Francis William Bourdillon

The night has a thousand eyes,
and the day but one;
yet the light of the bright world dies
with the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
and the heart but one;
yet the light of a whole life dies
when love is done.

Reflection
When I first read this poem, I felt really sad. I can understand how the author wants to describe the love as beautiful thing. In this poem, the author compared first stanza and second stanza. He compared night with mind, day with heart, life with world, and dying sun with done love. He said light of whole life dies when love is done. From that, we can know that the main theme is that it is meaningless without love. But I don't understand what the eyes means. In fisrt stanza, the author used it for the stars, but in second stanza, I don't get it.