Come In Explication
Robert Frost is a well known American poet often associated with beautiful scenes from the New England area. However, the deeper meanings of his poems is often overlooked by their reader, many critics use words such as loneliness, anguish and frustration to describe some of Frost’s famous poems. In the poem “Come In”, Frost tells about the change from day to night and makes a parallel statement about stepping over the edge of life into death. The poem is filled with images of darkness, which becomes a symbol of death, and music from songbirds, which help to build a chaotic scene. The speaker seems to have a feeling of anxiety and a certain sense of awe toward the situation taking place in the poem. These feelings help display the poems overall theme that nature and life itself has a mysteriousness to it that should not be taken lightly. In the first stanza the speaker immediately makes reference to the boarder between light and dark. The edge of the woods is a boarder between the nighttime of the inside and the light of the outside as the speaker states in lines 3 and 4. The “Thrush music” (line 2) sets a mysterious scene from the very beginning. The man standing at the edge
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Approximate Word count = 824
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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