Though many died trying some never gave up and excepted the hand that Nature dealt them, those people understood that Nature can be harsh but they persevered, adapted and adjusted and eventually got on with life and began again what they had set out to do. The birds and flowers and trees in this poem express the thoughts of humans with their weariness and sadness. Is there a consciousness behind all this destruction and renewal? Thus we find a conflict between the natural elements taking place by the second stanza. In the final stanza Frost insists that For them there was really nothing sad. The theme of the natural verses the unnatural, is continued in an extended metaphor, in which the existing chimney of the house is compared to that of a pistil in the form of a simile.
Perhaps we try to do too much explaining, in civilization. Why else would we be provided with this memory that is so unlike that of a song bird, rock or tree? However, the speaker knows that the phoebes are not mourning the loss of the house because he knows that the nature does not sympathize with man and is thus futile to believe so the theme of futility. Post your Analysis Message This may only be an analysis of the writing. The barn opposed across the way, That would have joined the house in flame Had it been the will of the wind, was left To bear forsaken the place's name. The house had burned at midnight, but the event is a not a recent one, as the reader learns in subsequent quatrains. I have read many poems in my life, some joyful and some sad but I have never read about people describing about a burning house.
The way I saw the birds as being sad due to the fact what they are use to seeing is no longer. Changes are what you make them to be. It sat there, laid eggs and then the eggs hatched and the bird flew away. This poem is written in a sad tone about the devestation the speaker feels from this incident. For them there was really nothing sad. In the country things vanish and other things replace them. In the poem a fire has just ravaged a home, burning the land and destroying the house.
All that is good and evil in the world cause humankind to develop specific obstructions. Frost realizes that things in the country are much simpler and not as material, which in my opinion, shows that the speaker is versed in country things because recovering from the remains of the house and barn are difficult, however, it seems the speaker understands this and is prepared to move on even if there are alot of hardships from the incident. The house had gone to bring again 1 Their murmur more like the sigh we sigh 15 The birds that came to it through the air At broken windows flew out an in 13-14 Yet for them the lilac renewed its leaf 17 Sentence Structure The frequent use of enjambment draws attention to the specific part in the poem. Frost became well adjusted to rustic life, despite his miserable failure as a farmer. Our nature as humans allows a memory to be stored of this thing that is replaced.
Robert Frost will appear several times in our Countdown. Frost was a farmer for many years and a lot of his poetry deals with rural New England. Most common keywords Need of Being Versed in Country Things, The Analysis Robert Lee Frost critical analysis of poem, review school overview. Robert graduated in 1892 from Lawrence High School, where he and his future wife, Elinor White, served as co-valedictorians. The consciousness will always be there, and Frost even uses the contradiction of the birds to let us know that, as a part of nature they move on, but in the poem they still cry about the loss of their nest.
Frost adds the personification of the phoebes to emphasize the theme of futility when regarding nature. A house that has burned, leaving only its chimney visible is focused by the speaker. The house and the barn…elms, lilacs, water pumps. The speaker shows his mature attitude and says that for these birds there was really nothing sad or gloomy in nature. Lawrence University when Robert proposed to her. For them there was really nothing sad. However in contrast, the man made objects are fading away, slowly dying from the lack of use and care from man.
His first two books of verse, A Boy's Will 1913 and North of Boston 1914 , were immediate successes. Therefore, to be versed in country things means to know that the balance in nature is always restored. It is a selection of poems by Frost complemented by photographs taken by B. Sixth Quatrain: Melancholy Despite the Birds For them there was really nothing sad. And this is not too surprising.
They are resilient to destruction. The poems were all about the country as the title states, but I found those with rhyme somewhat overdone and theatrical. Even though a fire has happened there is still a way to recover nature to its true self. They will turn to stone, moss will cover our wretched temples of prosperity and perhaps we will be forgotten by nature too. Nature tears down natural things as well as artificial things. But although the birds felt all happy in nests, one needs being versed in rural things and one should not believe that the phoenix even wept for no one has even seen or heard them doing so. This poem puts me in a calm mood because of where it takes place.
Robert Frost just talks about buildings and birds. Everything is quiet in the country then all of a sudden next thing you hear is the sound of hoofs that sound like drums. The next twelve years proved a difficult time in Frost's personal life, but a fertile one for his writing. Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press. The Frosts' first child, Eliot, died in 1900 of cholera. Since he himself was, for the most part of his life, a farmer living very close to the moods and the vicissitudes of Nature, he knew of her from the close quarters and at first hand. To bear forsaken the place's name 8 From too much dwelling on what has been 16 For them it was really nothing sad.
This primary attitude towards nature is also mildly contracted with the resentment the speaker has towards the destruction the fire has caused to the house and his home. American Publisher, Henry Holt, picked up Frost's earlier books, and then come out with his third, Mountain Interval, a collection that had been written while Frost was still residing in England. The cycle of life will continue no matter what occurs. King's eloquent and spare black-and-white images. Copyright © 1984 by William Pritchard. Due to Spam Posts are moderated before posted.