entertain, inform the audience, or be used as a persuasive technique. Stories from the dead can provide great insight for the living on how to approach, or how not approach, different events. As George Santayana says, "If we do not learn from the mistakes of history, we are doomed to repeat them." There is a lot of truth behind this statement, as it can be applicable to prodigious world events like war and government issues,
fact and imagination” (408). In Frost’s poems “Meeting and Passing”,“The Subverted Flower” and “Never Again….Be the Same” he shows how men and women sometimes have to go their own to keep from getting hurt. Both the men and women in both of these poems learn something from the situation they were in and will grow from what happened. Judith Oster explains Frost’s poetry in her essay “Frost’s Poetry of Metaphors”. Both poems involve and man and women and how they interact with one another. Metaphors
of doing so, the question of how a ‘female’ mode of reading can potentially be achieved by almost anyone becomes particularly salient. This question has no doubt been explored in different ways throughout the history of feminist criticism. In his essay, ‘Reading as a Woman’ (1982), Jonathan Culler notes the various ways of reading that feminist critics have undertaken in order to ‘read as a woman’, particularly in what he calls the “hypothesis of the female reader”. The postulate of a female reader