Compare and Contrast the Grammar-Translation Method and the Direct Method

THERE IS NO FRIGATE LIKE A BOOK
By
Emily Dickinson

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|There is no frigate like a book |“frigate” a small, fast moving ships (simile is used) |
|To take us lands away, |“lands” has the connotation of faraway places |
|Nor any coursers like a page |“coursers” means horses (simile is used) |
| Of prancing poetry: |“Prancing” of horses, to move quickly with high steps |
| |A page of a book is compared to prancing horses that can take the reader to a |
| |world of imagination and adventure. |
|This traverse may the poorest take/ Without oppress |“traverse” to cross an area of land or water. |
|of toll; |“oppress” stress; “toll” is money that traveler pay to use a particular road or |
| |bridge. |
| |Even a poor person can travel and explore different worlds by reading a book |
| |because he doesn’t have to pay any toll or money. He can pass through the |
| |frontiers of knowledge without paying any money. |
|How frugal is the chariot |“frugal” simple and inexpensive. Here books are compared or likened to a simple