Robert Frost Theme on Death

Throughout Frosts poetry it is clear to opine that Frost himself had experienced great loss. His poetrys take you through some of the stages of grief he had experienced at various points in his vivification. There is a certain cathartic quality to his meters, it is self-explanatory Frost used the medium of creative writing as a release from his grief, enabling him to play his losses, to accept and heal from them. His own father had died when Frost was just a boy himself and during his married life Frost found himself a father to a fault to six offspring.His life was touched by cataclysm again as he and his wife lost two of these children. One child was quiet born(p) the other died at three years old. The echoes of grief can be found in the poem fireside burial. Tell me about if its something hu part. Let me into your grief. Im not so much unlike other family unit as your standing in that respect. This sections comes as the husband is pleading with the wife to communicate with him. The wife is inconsolable and is move to flee and says to her husband There you go sneering nowFrost breaks this crimp in the affection to suggest how profoundly at odds they are, how much psychic as well as misprint space separates them. (Kilcup 1988. ) Again he pleads with her A man cant speak of his own child thats dead. Any rhetorical hesitancy demands, expects, the visiters automatic agreement there is nothing it expects less than a particular, specific denial. The mans Cant a man speak . . . means Isnt any man allowed to speak . . . , but her fatally specific answer, Not you makes it mean, A man cannotis not able tospeak, if the man is you, (Jarrell 1999.)She then implies how insensitive he has been over the childs death and repeats the linguistic process to him that he had said after burying the child Three foggy mornings and one rainy twenty- quartet hour period will rot the best birch fence a man can build. Amys interpretation of her husbands expressive style of speaking in the kitchen reveals, ironically, that her husband may be far more subtle and sophisticated in expressing himself than she understands. Her question is really an accusation, and she believes not lonesome(prenominal) that he would not care but that he is fundamentally incapable(p) of caring (Faggen1997.)The husband through his wife Amys eyes has lost the ability to interact with his wife, also his wife fails to see that in fact he was referring to the childs death by his comment. As a granger close to nature he was referring to the unfairness of it all, that no matter how hard you try fate plays a part in everything. The fence being a metaphor of how a perfectly strong social system can be taken by bad weather. In the case of the babys life it taken by death. In the case of this poem both the husband and wife had misinterpreted each others grieving.Failing to appreciate each others cark in that process. In the poem Death of a Hired worldly concern, there are four characters. Mary and warren, partners or married it does not actually state this in the poem. Harold a young call forth hand and the hired man Silas who seems to be the main character of the poem. In comparison to the couple in Home Burial and the obvious neglect of empathy they seem to have for each other, Mary and rabbit warren seem close and communicate effortlessly with each other. This is reflected in the opening verses of death of A Hired Man.It seems they have a relationship of mutual understanding amid them. When she heard his step, Mary was obviously well-known(prenominal) with Warren enough to know it was his foot fall without first seeing him. This is the opposite in Home burial obviously the wife is trying to flee from her husband a marked comparison between the two relationships. Silas has returned to this couple to die, when Mary comes across him he is Huddled against a barn door profuse asleep. In the middle of winter this must have appeared strange to M ary.She goes on to describe his sort to Warren, a miserable sight, frightening too I didnt recognize him-I wasnt looking for him-and hes changed, This describes a change in Silass appearance enough to shock Mary who has known him a number of years. May be he has freehanded thin and worn looking. The verse paints a mental picture, you can visualize worthless withered Silas curled up in the doorway of the barn and the look on Marys face on finding him there. Warren asks Mary if he said anything she replied but little, Mary describes his speech to Warren almost in-coherent.This symbolises the demise of Silas as he its unable to string a sentence together. Warren is confused by this and refers to a dissimilarity between Silas and Harold Wilson. Wilson a young boy and Silas were good work colleagues. Harold had other ideas and went into education Silas tried everything to coax Harold back to working the farm but with little success. Silas frowned upon formal education this shows thro ugh in this verse, He said he couldnt make the boy believe He could find water with a chromatic prong-which showed how much good school had ever done him.Warren says at one point well those geezerhood trouble Silas like a dream. Maybe Silas had regret in his life, he cut a lonely person roaming the land looking for work. His own family were well to do and educated, his brother is quoted as a managing director of a bank. They are shades of Silas not been good enough in some way in his familys eyes. Maybe he viewed Warren and Mary as family at one point Warren states he wont be made ashamed to please his brother. The simile between Silas and the stray hound that came from the forest and given a home on their farm paints the couple as empathetic and caring of nature.Maybe this is the background why Silas chose them to die with rather than alone. With all the problems that arose between Silas and Harold while working for Warren and Mary. Mary still found it in her heart to give him a bed for the night. Mary asks Warren to check on Silas while she sits a watches the night sky. Mary is particularly watching the clouds and says to warren Ill sit and see if that itty-bitty sailing cloud will hit or miss the moon. It hit the moon. This line symbolises the point as Warren looks in a Silas and realises Silas has died in his sleep.Frost reflects the mood of the poem with this short line, you can almost hear the cloud exploding off the moon as warren realises Silas is dead. Warren returns to Mary Dead, was all he said. The ending of the poem also shows the impact of death, as Warren silently sits beside Mary and he only gives a one-word answer of Dead. This emphasizes the impact of Silas death and what it means to the couple. The bluntness of his reaction gives a printing of grief and disbelief (Study Mode, ND) In both these poems Frost deals with death in an intimate way, you can reassure by the style of each verse he is writing from experience.The mood and t one of each poem is dramatic and it is as though you are a fly on the wall actually witnessing the as yetts that expand in each verse from beginning to end. Again in the poem Out Out, there is a comparison between the disbelief of the wife in her reaction towards her husband, at his perceived lack of care towards the childs death in the poem, Home Burial, and the reaction of the gathered crowed after the poor boy perishes.As it states in Out Out, And they, since they, (the gathered crowd,) Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs. Certainly there was sorrow, lament and a tearful funeral, but none of that pertains to the poets message. The living have lives to lead (Wood 2008. )This is the last line of the poem after the poor victim, 16yr old Raymond Fitzgerald dies in the accident of horrific injuries caused by a bombilation saw. The poor child bleeds to death after his hand is severed by the saw.Robert Frost clearly fulfill great things as a poet. After a long and succes sful career as a professor teaching poetry, he went on to win The Pulitzer Prizes twice for his literary works. This gentle farmer-poet whose platform manner concealed the ever-troubled, agitated private man who sought through each of his poems a momentary bridle against confusion. (Burnshaw. S 2000. ) Frost became the voice of the ordinary American and to this day is still held in the highest regard even after his death.