Robert Frost

Robert Frost

1. Tuft of Flowers

   • Themes
     • Connections - nature, physical environment, mankind, calm/happy/content
     • Self Reflection/contemplation
     • Imagination
   • Quotes
     • ‘by leaving them to flourish, not for us’
     • ‘that made me hear the wakening birds around, And hear his long scythe whispering to the ground’
     • “Men work together”, I told him from the heart “Whether they work together or apart”
     • ‘After one Who mowed it in the dew before the sun’
     • ‘spirit kindred to my own’
     • ‘And I must be, as he had been – alone’
     • ‘morning gladness
     • ‘to hear his long scythe whispering to the ground’
   • Techniques
     • ‘There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch’ hyperbole
     • Contrast – nature is confusing him

2. Apple Picking