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The Ax-Helve by Robert Frost

Summary

Summary

Baptiste surprises the narrator and offers to fit him a new ax-helve.

Baptiste tells the narrator that his wife doesn't speak English and then explains that she doesn't actually understand what they're saying

Set in Baptiste's house, the narrator questions how much he really knows about axes.

Baptiste fits him a new ax-helve, the narrator questions if they have a friendship now. Then Baptiste and the Narrator admire Baptiste's work.

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Literary Devices

Personification

Juxtaposition

Literary Devices

"In time to keep me from suspecting him

Of really never having meant to keep it."

"he wished me to have the best he had"

"to show how it ran

Across the handle"

Enjambment

Imagery

"Baptiste was anxious for her; but no more

Than for himself"

"plowing the grain

With a think thumbnail to show how it ran

Across the handle’s long-drawn serpentine—

Like the two strokes across a dollar sign."

Themes

Primary Themes:

Secondary Themes

  • Language Barriers
  • Tradition Vs Technology
  • Man Vs Wild
  • Trust
  • Guidance
  • Strong foundations
  • The kindness of strangers

Themes

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