The Tuft Of Flowers By Robert Frost

Although everyone is their own individual, society determines who is considered “normal.” In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon struggles to fit in with the people around him because of his mental illness. Elie Wiesel faces the same struggles while trying to survive in a concentration camp in Night. Charlie and Elie have both been challenged by the concept of identity. In Flowers for Algernon and Night, these characters have faced many conflicts including not having their identity accepted by society, having insecurities about their identity, and being mistreated based on their identity.

In the fields filled with fertile soil and abundant plant life, laborers are often found immersed in their duties. Whether they show efforts to increase their personal profits or in fear of retributions from their employers, the laborers work silently for countless hours of the day. The only interaction available for many of these laborers is the interaction between themselves and the field itself. Due to this interaction, Robert Frost and Jean Toomer write about how workers seek to communicate with others in similar situations as themselves in order to gain comfort. They argue that workers in any kind of labor in the fields feel the loneliness that can only be relieved not verbally, but through fictional interactions between the worker and another worker.

Frost’s darker meditation on nature, Browning’s conventional theme of love and the significance of ‘temples’ in Langston Hughes’ poems are some of the themes and issues in this report. Robert Frost is famous for writing poems about nature. His poems revolve around his surrounding such as trees, animals and flowers. A lot of people have misunderstood Robert Frost for writing happy poems that describe nature. In reality, Robert Frost uses nature as a symbolic meaning to something higher than just the

Robert Frost’s poetic techniques serve as his own “momentary stay against confusion,” or as a buffer against mortality and meaninglessness in several different ways; in the next few examples, I intend to prove this. Firstly, however, a little information about Robert Frost and his works must be provided in order to understand some references and information given.

Robert Frost also shows his touch of imagery in the poem, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”.

Poetry is a literary medium which often resonates with the responder on a personal level, through the subject matter of the poem, and the techniques used to portray this. Robert Frost utilises many techniques to convey his respect for nature, which consequently makes much of his poetry relevant to the everyday person. The poems “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and “The mending wall” strongly illuminate Frost’s reverence to nature and deal with such matter that allows Frost to speak to ordinary people.

In the poem, “The Tuft of Flowers,” Robert Frost initially designs the persona to possess a pessimistic perception of his duty to mow the fields that day. The persona feels lonesome having to complete the workload by himself, as depicted in the line,

Someone has stopped by the side of a road that leads to a hospital, and he or she is looking at the landscape. This person (the speaker of the poem) begins by describing the scene: the dead plants that cover everything at the end of winter. Then, the poem shifts, and the speaker describes the coming of spring, imagining how new life will emerge from this landscape as it begins to wake

naturalism and isolation. Frost also uses first, second and third person point of view throughout the poem. “When I see birches bend to left to right.” “One by one he subdued his father’s trees.” He also used end line rhyme in the form of couplets in the poem.

Robert Frost had a fascination towards loneliness and isolation and thus expressed these ideas in his poems through metaphors. The majority of the characters in Frost’s poems are isolated in one way or another. In some poems, such as “Acquainted with the Night” and “Mending Wall,” the speakers are lonely and isolated from their societies. On other occasions, Frost suggests that isolation can be avoided by interaction with other members of society, for example in “The Tuft of Flowers,” where the poem changes from a speaker all alone, to realizing that people are all connected in some way or another. In Robert Frost’s poems “Acquainted with the Night,” “Mending Wall,” and “The Tuft of Flowers,” the themes insinuate the idea of loneliness

In Robert Frost’s “Tuft of flowers”, the connection of man and nature leads the composer to make an emotional discovery. Frosts unorthodox rhyming style of having 5 iambs in each line makes the poem unique and its quest to realising discovery unique. With that in mind by choosing an unusual form, Frost makes the idea apparent to me in a way that is memorable. Also Frost contrasts the flower with the cut grass shows that he has encased a connection between them and himself as he recognises the beauty of the flower in “…and led my eye to look/At a tall tuft of flowers beside a brook” this new understanding lead him on the path of finding the emotional discovery. Through this poem, Frost showed me that discoveries can lead to refinding yourself and finding new perceptions and by demonstrating this idea he has further my understanding of discovery through the notion of making it memorable.

In the poem by Robert Frost, you read of a man taking a moment to enjoy the blissful serenity of a quiet snowy evening in the woods. It reflects the enchanted tranquility of the moment. There is no disturbance, no commotion nor a bit of turbulence in the man’s surroundings. Instead, there is a peaceful beauty that he wishes to take a moment and enjoy. This poem takes you into the exact peacefulness of the moment he is experiencing.

Robert Frost’s works explore the unexpected nature of discovery and its catalysts, the complex outcomes they bring forth, and the profound impact of discoveries upon a person. As seen in the dramatic monologue “The Tuft of Flowers”, the persona is shown to be a farm worker, who goes to a field after the mower to turn the grass. Together, the shared jobs come together to work as a larger agricultural process, but the workers do their jobs individually. In the beginning of the poem, the persona muses on the absence of the other worker, first “Looking for him behind an isle of trees;” then “Listening for his whetstone on the breeze”. The persona seeks the company of the worker, but then comes to the conclusion; “And I must be, as he had been, - alone”. The hyphen within this line is used as a caesura to highlight the loneliness of the worker. Due to this observation, the narrator states in a resigned tone ““All as must be,” I said within my heart, “Whether they work together or apart””. The use of interior monologue, by the persona ‘speaking within his heart’ highlights his isolation and brings forth the first discovery of the poem, the worker is doing his job alone. The worker’s search for company is then mirrored in the appearance of a “bewildered butterfly”, seeking the flowers of yesterday. The seemingly insignificant occurrence of a butterfly flying past the worker becomes important as it acts as a catalyst for the key meaningful discovery of the poem. The butterfly searching for a flower to land upon draws the attention of the persona to a tuft of flowers, purposefully untouched by the scythe of the mower, in an act of

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “ The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.

This poem portrays about the beauty and implying that originated from working at something you love and about how it makes a break from the nervousness of the terrifying and of the obscure. He is discussing verse yet it can be reached out to any kind of work. The mowing is in rows like lines of poem. The action happens adjacent to the forested areas which are by all accounts an image in his poem for the obscure, existence in the wake of death, demise, or gloom