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In the Metro six sentence summary

The poem portrays a man mourning upon a perfect girl he will never see again. The opening lines introduce the girl he “met the other day” (2) and first describes her as the “girl with the shining legs” when he sees her in the subway (3). He realizes that “she goes her way And I go mine” knowing they will never meet again (4,5). Knowing this, he feels “sad though I don’t know why” (6). This thought carries on in his mind and describes an escalator carrying her away as “a river--a flower to the sea”(8). He stands there “crucified to families duties” (9) and “transfixed” (10) at his inability to go after her.
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“Design” Six Sentence Plot Summary

The sonnet depicts Robert Frost’s views on the creation of life. The opening line explains Robert Frosts first observation of a “white” and “dimpled” spider sitting on a  “white” plant and holding up a  “white” moth it is about to eat (1,2,3). He explains that they are all there “mixed” together and placed purposefully (5). He then questions the state of the spider for “being white” and why another force changed it from being “wayside blue”(9,10). He asks what “brought” and “steered” the spider and moth together at this point in the night (11,12). He finally ends the poem asking what could’ve caused this “design of darkness” other than a supernatural designer but then reassures himself that it could have just been a coincidence (13).

“The Wild Swans at Coole” summary

The poem depicts a guy who goes and looks at swans over the course of nineteen years. The first stanza talks of his walk over to the pond or lake noticing the trees are “in their autumn beauty”(1) and the woodland paths are dry”(2) and finally seeing the “nine-and-fifty swans”(6). He tells us it is his “nineteenth autumn”(7) here and before he could finish counting the swans they “scatter wheeling”(11). After all the years he has noticed “all’s changed”(15) in his life. He then explains how although much has changed in his life the swans “hearts have not grown old”(22) unlike him. The final stanza expresses that one day the swans will leave and it leaves him thinking “among what rushes will they build”(27)  and where will they fly.

Still Frame Analysis

Rebel without a Causes family frame expresses Jim’s struggle to find the parents he wants and needs. From the starting scene in the movie we see Jim disconnected from his family and unhappy with them for an unknown reason. He then gets into some bad situations and looks to his father to help which he can’t do. He has trouble with these situations because he looks for his dad to be a strong father figure but his dad doesn’t fit that role. Jim is mad with his father because he wants him to stick up to his mom because his mom wears the pants in the household which Jim hates. The frame is taken after Buzz has died and Jim is deciding whether he should tell the police or not. He looks to his parents for help saying it is the morally correct thing to do but him mom tells him not to do so or it could ruin his life. Jim looks towards his father to see what to do but he sides with Jim’s mom. This makes Jim furious and it expresses his dads fear of standing up for himself. In the frame J