Robert Frost

Given that Frost's poem "The Secret Sits" is a simple couplet (two lines of poetry) and written in anapest trimeter (anapest- a meter with a three syllable foot; trimeter- the existence of three...

The poem Fireflies in the Garden, by Robert Frost is an allegory to several things including the admiration of effort, the drawbacks of imitation, and the appreciation of differences. The...

The tone of the end of the poem is curious and disappointed, and the mood is regretful and thoughtful. Tone is the author’s attitude toward the subject, and the mood is the emotional landscape of...

Imagery is using the five senses—sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste—to describe a scene. In "Nothing Gold can Stay," Frost uses visual and touch imagery: we can see and feel what he describes....

"Nothing Gold Can Stay," by Robert Frost, is a poem about the illusory nature of life. This theme, that nothing of value ("nothing gold") will last forever, is substantiated through the imagery of...

The "glimpses" that the poem refers to are shown to be dazzling and beautiful glimpses of nature that truly point us towards the intense and inspirational beauties of the natural world that our...

Robert Frost’s “October” uses both its form and content to depict a moment in time right before fall gives way to winter. Although the poem takes the form of one stanza, it can be roughly split...

The poem refers to the fact that sometimes beautiful things do not last long. They tend to be evanescent. Gold is of course associated with the precious metal. It is extremely valuable in this...

Frost's poems are often ambiguous and therefore lend themselves to a variety of interpretations. "Love and a Question" is no exception. The basic situation involves a stranger who approaches the...

Amidst the shirred remains of the harvested field, the speaker observes signs of the last remaining days of Autumn that part with the melancholy of the "sober birds" and the leaf that "Comes softly...

Sorrow is personified in this poem, as the narrator refers to this emotion as a "she" who can "love" and "walk" and "talk," and so forth. Sorrow thinks that the "dark days of autumn rain" are...

[Answers on eNotes are limited by available space.] Poetry analysis includes, among other things, structure and rhyme scheme; meter, which is feet and rhythm; theme, which requires knowing the...

The regular rhythm and simple structure of this poem, based on four-line stanzas, is suited to its topic: the simple activity of shoveling "mountains" of dried leaves. The poem's regularity echoes...

It is amazing the way in which loneliness occurs as a definite theme in so many of Frost's poems. My own personal favourite is "Acquainted with the Night," as mentioned above, in which the speaker...

Frost is using the changing colors of the leaves to meditate on the continuing and unstoppable changes of life. Youth is presented as the golden age, the best of all times of life. "Nature's first...

Robert Frost was an American poet born in San Francisco, California at the end of the 19th century. He wrote a number of his most famous poems, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,"...

This poem, like so many of Frost's poems, takes as its subject the beauty of nature. The title, "A Prayer in Spring," points towards the way in which this poem operates as a simple evocation of the...

Frost uses personification to describe the "resurrected tree" under which the poem's speaker sits and rests. The speaker identifies the tree using the male pronoun "he" and notes that its position...

Three of the many features that are often present in Robert Frost's poems are a) a simple rhyme scheme, b) everyday language, c) multiple symbolic meanings. For example, take the opening stanza...

In "Mending Wall," the speaker considers telling his neighbor, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall, / That wants it down." In other words, he has a desire not to be restricted; he does not...

The theme of "Once by the Ocean" is the inevitable passing of time and its slow destruction. There is a heavily foreboding tone established at the outset of the piece. The water and waves "shatter"...

The tone or mood of Frost's poem is ominous and threatening, creating a mood of unease or anxiety about the future. Nature is portrayed as planning, with deliberate, evil intent, to harm the...

Robert Frost's poem “I Could Give All to Time” focuses first on the unfeeling nature of time. People often attribute emotional characteristics to time, but according to the speaker, time is not...

Both poems make use of nature imagery, as the other educator wrote. In "Nothing Gold Can Stay," "Nature's first green" makes us visualize spring and the explosion of green that occurs when winter...

Tone is the attitude of the writer/narrator about a particular subject. The tone is generally conveyed through the word choice of the writer. In this poem, the tone isn't the same throughout. Frost...

Robert Frost's "The Runaway" is a short poem that describes the specific scene of a young horse being first exposed to snow. The horse appears to be running away because he is afraid. The two...

At first glance, Robert Frost doesn’t seem to have much in common with the experimental poetry of the Modernist writers; his poetry often relies on traditional forms, rhymes, and blank verse. Frost...

The question posed in Robert Frost's "The Oven Bird" is found in the last line of the poem. What to make of a diminished thing. The body of the poem speaks to everything a bird has seen and how...

Robert Frost's poem "Peck of Gold" looks back at his childhood in San Francisco and focuses on the dust that seemingly covered everything. In the poem, he uses the dust as both a symbol of the...

Two “individuals” who might be said to pursue individual well-being in Robert Frost’s poem “Come In” are the bird and the man who listens to the bird. The bird might be said to pursue individual...

In "Going for Water," childhood innocence is expressed primarily through the children's identification with the natural world around them. Because they enjoy such a close relationship with nature...

Robert Frost's poem "A Late Night Walk" is a lyric poem of the variation called ballad. Lyric poems come in several varieties including sonnets and ballads. Each variety of lyric poem has its own...

As noted in the previous answer, the rhyme scheme follows the ABAB pattern. What is interesting, too, about the rhythm of this poem is that it adds to the meaning. Because the task that Frost is...

Frost's allusion to the Garden of Eden story is meant to remind us that the idea that nothing lasts forever isn't a new one; it goes right back to the very dawn of civilization. We might like to...

The speaker is commenting upon what he sees in the last days of autumn. The use of the adjective "late" in the title might indicate that it is late in the year as autumn approaches winter. The...

Robert Frost once wrote, "In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." Frost's belief about the continuation of life is reflected in his detailing of nature. This...

The title of the poem reveals the subject. The poet is critiquing the upheaval that the line gang's installation of telegraph and telegram lines is bringing to his once quiet and undisturbed rural...

Figurative language is any language that goes beyond the literal. It can add extra meaning or it can be used for emphasis or effect. Frost uses anastrophe in "The Pasture." Anastrophe is changing...

One of my favorite Frost poems, "The Death of the Hired Man," seems to have been written with this question in mind :). Early in the poem Warren is grousing about Silas' returning home...

Both of these famous poems by Robert Frost could be interpreted in many ways, but one common theme seems to be choices—especially how we feel about our choices after the fact. We're normally...

The poem "Going for Water" by Robert Frost is narrated in the first person plural (probably by children). The narrators live in a rural environment and rely on a well for their water. Because the...

Frost begins the poem with a contrast that is precise and man-made, sitting indoors and talking ''of the cold outside." The precarious nature of the warmth and comfort which the subjects of the...

In "House Fear" by Robert Frost, the poem supports that fear causes people to behave irrationally. In this poem, the person on the outside of the locked door does make noise while prolonging the...

Both "Birches" and "The Road Not Taken" are naturalist poems that deal with interactions between man and nature. More specifically, they use nature to explore man's contemplation of choices made in...

The theme of a poem can be defined as its message to the reader. In the poem "Love and A Question," the speaker of the poem may be telling the reader that few decisions are straightforward, even...

There are all sorts of ways to critically appreciate this poem. You can start by looking at where the poem first appears and what form of poem it is. With just a little digging, I found that...