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By Amanda Arquette & Kyle Sylvester
 Born
on March 26, 1874
 Much
sadness throughout life
 Poems
 Died
never focused on own life
on January 29th 1963
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Won Pulitzer in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943
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Won the Mark Twaine Medal in 1987
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Gold Metal of The National Institute of Arts and Letters in
1941
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Participated in the 1961 Inauguration of John F. Kennedy
Had over 40 Honorary Degrees from college’s and
universities
 1915
A
Boy’s Will
 Very
similar to other works
o “The Wood-Pile”
o “Mowing”
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 Outside
o Rural
o Nature
 Morning
o “I went to turn the grass once after one
Who mowed it in the dew before the sun.” (1-2)
 Sorrowful
o “glad” (37)
o “gone” (3)
o “hoped” (40)
o “isle of trees” (5)
o “together” (42)
o “alone” (8)
 Hopeful
o “loved” (27)
o “flourish” (28)
o “sheer morning
gladness” (30)
o “kindred spirit” (35)
Rhyming
 Heroic
Couplets
o Each line has 10 syllables
o Every two lines rhyme
 Rhyme
Scheme
o Aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, ff, gg, hh, ii, jj, kk, ll, mm, nn, oo, pp,
qq, dd, rr, ss, ee
• Lines 9-10 and 41-42 are repeated
Consonance
 “And
hear his long scythe whispering to the
ground” (34)
o Hear the scythe
Alliteration
 “On
noiseless wing a ‘wildered butterfly” (12)
o Butterfly whirling around
 “At
a tall tuft of flowers beside a brook” (22)
o See the flowers
Anaphora
 “And”
(8, 15, 17, 18, 20,
34, 35, 39)
o Narrative
o Journey
o Repetitiveness of life
 “I
+ action verb”
o “I went” (1)
o “I came” (4, 26)
o “I looked” (5)
o “I listened” (6)
o “I said” (9, 11)
o “I marked” (15)
o “I thought” (19)
o “I left” (25)
o “I worked” (36, 37)
o “I told” (41)
• Shows the action
throughout the poem
 Anastrophe
for emphasis
o “But as I said it, swift there passed me by” (11)
o “But glad with him, I worked as with his aid,
And weary, sought at noon with him the shade” (37-38)
 Repetition
of “but”
o “But he had gone his way, the grass all mown” (7)
o “But as I said it, swift there passed me by” (11)
o “But he turned first, and led my eye to look” (21)
o “But from sheer morning gladness at the brim” (30)
o “But glad with him, I worked as with his aid” (37)
“went
to turn the grass” (1)–
Life’s Burdens
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“an isle of trees” (5) Isolation
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“Finding the butterfly weed” (26) Combination of wisdom and
learning
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“View the leveled scene”
(4)- Humans Destroying
Nature
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“wildered butterfly” (13) Wisdom
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“a tall tuft of flowers” (22) –
Nature, Hope
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<http://www.bartleby.com/117/index1.html>.
"An Online Exhibit Presented by Special Collections at
Middlebury College." Robert Frost at Bread Loaf. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2012.
<http://midddigital.middlebury.edu/local_files/robert_f
rost/lectures_readings/>.
"Robert Frost." Poets.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2012.
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By Amanda Arquette and Kyle Sylvester