Poetry Of Robert Frost Pdf

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In the beginning, Silas is judged by the fact that he wandered off lookingfor a little pay,"Enough at least to buy tobacco with,/So he won't have to begand be beholden." He is no longer productive, and it's unclear if he ever was,except for his ability to "build a load of hay." This is probably the Americannightmare ... judging another in terms of their work, what they can DO, theircash value.

The best part of the poem is the transition that takes place in Warren as hecomes to realize that Silas is a lot more than just a worker. He's acomplicated individual. Mary utters one of the most telling remarks int hepoem: "He don't know why is isn't quite as good/As anyone." As things move on,Warren softens (after his initial "anger," was he ever anything butsoft?) When Mary says Silas' working days are over, it is Warren whoremarks, "I'd not be in a hurry to say that." We have moved over to the bestpart of the American Dream, the community part. Americans havetraditionally had a strong sense of community, and even though there are toolate for Silas, they do provide a "home" where he died loved.

Brady, Timothy. "How does Robert Frost's poetry reflect both the American dream and nightmare?" edited by eNotes Editorial, 11 Sep. 2008, -frost/questions/how-does-robert-frost-contain-both-american-dream-28299.

In his poem, The Vanishing Red, Frost writes about the death of thelast Indian in America. Technically, the poem is a statement aboutthe white settlers who pushed the Native American off his land, and tookpossession. In history, this is known as Manifest Destiny, belief thatAmerica had to expand her borders from the Atlantic to thePacific. This was done at the expense of the Native Indians who occupiedthis territory. They were pushed, relocated or murdered off theirland.

He is said to have been the last Red man

In Action. And the Miller is said to have laughed--

If you like to call such a sound a laugh.

But he gave no one else a laugher's license.

For he turned suddenly grave as if to say,

'Whose business,--if I take it on myself,

Whose business--but why talk round the barn?--

When it's just that I hold with getting a thing done with.'

You can't get back and see it as he saw it.

It's too long a story to go into now.

You'd have to have been there and lived it.

They you wouldn't have looked on it as just a matter

Of who began it between the two races." (Frost)

Sykes, Edith. "How does Robert Frost's poetry reflect both the American dream and nightmare?" edited by eNotes Editorial, 3 Aug. 2008, -frost/questions/how-does-robert-frost-contain-both-american-dream-28299.

I seem to be in a "frosty" mood when it comes to my poetry reading these days. Here is quite possibly my favorite of Robert Frost's poems. After this, I promise to move on to another author for next Sunday's poem. As the poet says, we all have "promises to keep" and I'll do my best to keep this one!

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