Robert Frost' s "Provide, Provide" and Peter Meinke's "Advice To My Son", these two poems deserve to be compared. Frost's Poem "Provide, Provide" uses language that is in a fairly straightforward and literal way and states the theme in the final lines. Peter Meinke's "Advise to My Son"; conclude with a statement of them that is more difficult to apprehend, because it is made with figurative language and symbols. This difference will be readily apparent if you compare the final lines of Frost and Meinke in each poem.

Frost has a more harsh way of looking at life and giving advice about success and the future, while Meinke seems more nurturing about giving his advice as a father fig

As for the last stanza Frost, "Better to go down dignified with boughten friendship at your side, than none at all". I read into this as you can hire someone to hold you as you die. Is this how I want to see myself as a needy person having to buy a friend or lover to take care of me in my dying days. Mienke " ... and always serve bread with your wine. But , son always serve wine. This line it took me a while to understand at first I thought of a religious thing but it came to me. Don't forget that life is more than eating, sleeping, getting up and working. It is your life, take time to enjoy it.

A Father tries to tell his son how to spend his time, how to live his life to the fullest. To live each day as if it might be his last, and yet still plan for the future. This se

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