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Tone

Figurative Language

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

Imagery

"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 Wood Pile by Robert Frost

Guiding Questions: How does Rober Frost use literary devices such as metaphor and

Structure

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

Imagery

Speaker

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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

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Background Information

Throughout The Wood Pile the poem sheds light on Robert Frost's revelation period of his life

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