Directive (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Frost
- First Published: 1946
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Farms, farmers, or farming, Time, Houses, mansions, or manors, Cemeteries, Holy Grail or Grail quest
The Poem
“Directive” is a sixty-two-line poem in blank verse. Because it contains elements of the lyric, the dramatic monologue, the narrative poem, the parody, and the meditation, it is difficult to classify. Its ambiguous form complements the unsettled, willfully contradictory quality that infuses the whole poem. The title, suggesting an important instruction or edict, is also ambiguous, since the various instructions given in the poem are neither clear nor easily followed; the poem is as much anti-directive as directive.
Addressing an unspecified “you,” with...
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