The Silken Tent (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
The Poem
Robert Frost’s “The Silken Tent” is both a love poem and a metaphor describing the poet’s relationship to his beloved as well as to his poetry. “The Silken Tent” is a sonnet written in the Shakespearean style, yet with Frost’s uniquely American twist on form. It is a simple sentence written in fourteen lines of rhymed iambic pentameter. Frost makes use of his ties to nature in general, and New England in particular, to address the universality of human relationships and love. This is also a poem about people’s individual relationships within the wider...
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