God's Garden-Robert Frost

This was was one of Frost's first poems and was the beginning of his chain of poems that relate to the Garden of Eden from Genesis.

Each stanza shows one of the three steps of the creation of life on Earth.

1. God creates the Garden of Eden.

2. The devil tempts Eve with the apple.

3. God forgives everyone and invites them to come back to heaven with him.

Frost doesn't claim this poem as his own. He doesn't remember writing it.

The rhyme scheme for the first stanza goes as follows: A, B, C, B, A, D, A, D, E, F, A, F.

The rhyme scheme of the second stanza goes as follows: A, B, C, B, D, E, F, G, H, G, D, G.

The rhyme scheme of the third stanza goes as follows: A, B, A, B, C, D, C, D, E, F, F, F.

We could not find a meter for this poem but there are some hints of iambic tetrameter and trimeter back to back which could imply ballad meter. This would be most likely since Frost liked using Iambic meters in his poems.

Frost uses many different letter sounds repeatedly in this poem. "b" and "p" being the most evident. The "b" sound can be seen as a happy and fun sound because of the way you have to say it. This contributes to the joyful tone of the poem. The "p" sound is a concise and sharp sound that has a bad connotation. Frost's use of the "p" sound works with the second stanza to show how even in the best of places bad things still occur.

The first stanza of the poem has a fluent rhyme and describes vividly the Garden of Eden. Frost uses imagery to allow the reader to visualize the garden in its natural beauty.

The second stanza's rhyme scheme is more abscure than the other two. This is understandable since it is talking about the devil tempting the people in the garden to go against God's words. It also uses darker words such as poison, blood, bones, and av'rice that relate back to the devil.

The third, and final, stanza returns to a happy tone as God tells his people to ignore the prodding by the devil and work to get to heaven in order to be with him, which is where they are truly meant to go.

This poem is a direct analogy to the story of the Garden on Eden in the Bible with a few alterations. The tree is now a path and the apple is now flowers. The result and meaning one should take from this poem are exactly the same.

In the critic, "Quarreling Frost, Northeast of Eden," the author descibes multiple occasions that the Garden of Eden shows up in Frost's poetry. It also talks about how style, meter and rhyme are a big deal for Frost.

In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost: Chris Saunders suggests that the narrator of this elusive short poem is drawn towards oblivion in the woods he stops by. Do you agree?" the author describes Frost's theme of writing lofty, joyful poems and once again explains his love of order and style.

The critic also brings up how he often uses certain repetitive letter sounds to emphasize a point, as talked about earlier.

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