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The Ax-Helve by Robert Frost | Analysis

The poem in full: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-a... Sorry guys, meant to upload this on Monday but things have been super intense in my life lately! Does anyone else have this problem - every year my extended family decide to come to stay during the easter holidays... aka the period when exams are hella close and revision is most intense. I am falling behind big time my friends! :D Thank you to Somebody for requesting this video. No I am not forgetting who it was, that is literally their username. Let me know what you think of this poem guys - I think it's my least favourite of the 20 poems we have to study! It's not very lyrical or dramatic and it goes from an ambiguous beginning to an ambiguous ending. In my opinion anyways. After much frustrated reshuffling of my notes I managed to draw some kind of meaning/message from it, so I really hope this one helps y'all out. :) One thing that IS pretty cool about this poem is its talk about home-education! When I started being more open on this channel about me being home-schooled I had no idea Robert Frost was too! What a cool coincidence. Just for that I'll forgive this poem for being a pile of nonsense. On that note, thank you to these online sources who helped me decode said nonsense: https://beamingnotes.com/2013/05/21/t... (2nd paragraph of the analysis particularly makes a cool point about rural anti-industrialisation) https://martyncrucefix.com/2017/12/19... (love this guy) https://prezi.com/v5w9-1345ph6/the-ax... http://american-literature-journal.bl... (the place to be if you need to compare Ax-Helve and Mending Wall) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource... (just use the free preview it's BRILL) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource... http://www.famoushomeschoolers.net/bi... (interesting background info on Robert Frost's relationship with home-education) Lately I've been marking essays and reading the mark schemes for the CAIE Literature in English A Level, which I'm taking this May and I know a couple of you guys are also studying for, and I thought I'd share what I've learned.... For each of your essays you'll be marked out of 25. You are only ever AWARDED marks - they are never taken away. For example if you did something "wrong", you wouldn't lose or gain any marks. But if you did something "right", you could gain a mark for that. Marks are rewarded according to 5 objectives. Listen up for this bit because these are the 5 things you need to be putting in your essays! 1. Knowledge - "the ability to respond to texts in the three main forms (Prose, Poetry, Drama) of different types and from different cultures. 2. Understanding - "an understanding of the ways in which writers' choices of FORM, STRUCTURE and LANGUAGE shape meanings." 3. Personal Response - "The ability to produce informed, independent opinions and judgements on literary texts." 4. Communication - "The ability to communicate clearly the knowledge, understanding and insight appropriate for literary study." 5. Opinion - "The ability to appreciate and discuss varying opinions of literary works." (If you're only doing AS level, don't worry about this one - they don't assess you on it) I don't know about you but I think these definitions sound pretty stuffy and vague (especially level 4 wth) so let me reiterate it for ya: 1. Knowledge - show you know the texts well. 2. Literary devices - show knowledge and appreciation of the specific form, structure and language used (e.g. refer to things like metaphors, enjambment, caesura, repetition, onomatopoeia etc.) 3. Your opinion - express your own opinion on what the text means and its effect - with evidence to back yourself up!! 4. Fluency - write in clear, well-structured and formal language. 5. Other people's opinions - refer to other potential interpretations and opinions. You don't need to cite specific scholars or anything, just acknowledge points of view different to your own and perhaps why your interpretation is better. This made me realise that I really need to talk more about my own opinion and definitely more about other opinions in my essays. Giving evidence and knowing the text well seems to be my strengths, and I think my writing's pretty fluent and well-structured. I make a decent amount of references to literary devices too, but yeah the opinions thing is what I'm going to work on over the next few weeks. I'm actually excited that the exams is so close because it means that the end is so close! COME ON GUYS WE'RE NEARLY THERE.