<span>The main difference
between “The Purple Cow” and Frost’s poem "Mending Wall" is the use
of rhyming in “The Purple Cow”. The former uses rhyming in alternative lines,
while the latter does not use any form of rhyming at all. </span>
Between the time periods of 600-1450 Common Era, it was
referred to as the dark ages in Europe because the cities and regions in Europe
lack poetry, which was a dark experience. It was not really a dark globally,
but only in the part of Europe wherein poetry vanished, but right after the
dark ages, was the beginning of the modern age, which gave life to poetry and
to music once more.
The Crimean War made it apparent that Russia was desperately in need of industrialization and reform.
Before the Crimean War, Russia was primarily an agrarian society. 90% of the population lived off the land and there was little industrial activity. The Crimean War was between 1853 and 1856. Russia lost the war. They had not lost a major war in 150 years. The defeat highlighted how far Russia was behind the rest of the industrialized world. Russia needed modernized weapons, railroads and a reorganization of their armed forces.
