A Close Reading Of Robert Frost's Poem

Throughout this poem, the speaker is describing the world around her, which reflects her own feelings of hopelessness. The tone is pure misery, which one can see at the very beginning when the speaker opens the poem with “With blackest moss the flower-plots / Were thickly crusted, one and all:” (1.1-2). The speaker is saying that all she sees around her are flower pots without flowers, but a think black moss covers them. She continues this same tone describing a barn area that has been worn and rusted admitting, “The broken sheds look'd sad and strange:” (1.3-6). Similarly, she keeps this mood through the rest of the six stanzas. Whether she is describing outside, inside or day and night, the natural world around her shares her disposition.