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- Robert Frost in his poem Once by the Pacific, alludes to Othello. Analyze Frost's comparison of God to Othello through the structure of the poem.
Once by the Pacific
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
2. Shakespeare uses the symbol of light to represent Desdemona's life. Choose another work that utilizes this symbol and anaylze the message of the poem.
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