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Contradictions
Personification
Sad
Hopeless
Helpless
Confusion
Opening Lines: Out walking in the frozen swamp one grey day, I paused and said, 'I will turn back from here. No, I will go farther and we shall see' The hard snow held me, save where now and then
"it was cord of maple, cut and split
And piled-- and measured four by eight"
"the wood was grey and the bark warping off it and pile somehow sunken"
"To warm the frozen swamp as best it could
With slow smokeless burning of decay"
The "Frostian" 5 line stress (typically no more than 5 words are stressed in each line)
Caesura lines- 3,9,15, and 24
NO rhyme scheme
Series of opposites- Man-Made/Nature
Cold/Heat
A conflicted man reflecting about the ups and downs of life
How does this correspond into Robert Frost's life? Robert's first born son died in 1900
Throughout The Wood Pile the poem sheds light on Robert Frost's revelation period of his life