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Paper #063199 :: Sound in Frost's Poetry
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Shows how Robert Frost shapes the reader's feelings by comparing two of his poems.

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This paper shows that, unlike the measured procession of syllables and the soft vowel sounds that characterizes the feelings conveyed in "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," the poet Robert Frost uses sharp, crackling consonants to denote the dangerous and active life of the birches of his poem "Birches." The paper shows that the poem "Birches," particularly in the first lines that set the scene and the stage for the active engagement of the poet with nature, is rife with crackling sharp 'b' explosive sounds that seem to create a sense of brittleness and breaking and exploding upon the reader's ear, as opposed to the softer vs and ws of the more leisurely and measured progression of verbiage in "Stopping by the Woods."

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"Although "Birches" is about apparently planted trees, the theme of the poem is dramatic, almost eschatological as the seasons cause the trees to change and the ice to break and form glass. Unlike the horse of "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening's" the second stanza has the trees themselves taking a human, living quality, even in the absence of humanity. They are "trailing their leaves on the ground/Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair/Before them over their heads to dry in the sun." The trees are full of motion as human beings, and the harshness of the 'g' of the girls and the hands and knees causes the reader to raise his or her voice aloud, rather than to drop his or her tone in the whispered, plodding quality of the "Snowy Evening" in its progression of diphthongs."

Tags: tone imagery consonants

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