Poetry is an art form and different poets use varying descriptive language techniques to paint the images that they choose to present. The works of T.S. Eliot, Gwen Harwood and Robert Frost from the anthology "Limes to Time" is of no exception. Eliot portrays contrasting images and ideas in many of his poems often leaving the reader in complete despair, but at other times feeling a sense of delight. Robert Frost uses a wide range of writing styles to convey his images and ideas in Mending Wall and Birches, though most of Frosts poetry focuses on the negative aspects of the human experience. Gwen Harwood's poetry is unlike Eliot's as her poetry is not directly focused on the personal experiences in her life. Although a happy mother of four, Harwood chooses to focus on the exhausting and tormenting features of motherhood.

Mending Wall by Robert Frost explores the differences between two neighbours. It is a depressing poem highlighting the inability of humans to communicate and to embrace one another. Using symbolic language and images, Frost is able to convey his message that often, humanity is much more cont

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ent to the idea of self-sufficiency rather than engaging in relationships. The use of language is sometimes quite strange: "He is all pine and I am apple orchard". This unusual way of describing the products they produce emphasises the poet's view that men are defined not by who they are or of personal quality, but rather what they grow. By using these symbolic differences between the two men, Frost is stating that humans do not define themselves by who they are or what their personal qualities, but rather the amount in people own in their possession or status.

Birches is significantly different as the language used by Frost describes a man in reflection. Frost uses extremely simple language to describe how a man wants to return to the innocence of childhood. The speaker desires the simplicity of life where he can become the conqueror of his own world, the conqueror who climbed hundreds of birch trees:

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