Robert Frost Annotation
S – Sorrow
P – My Sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark Autumn days full of rain
Are the most beautiful kinds of days;
She loves the withered, bare trees
She walks the wet pasture trail
Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She speaks and I am happy to listen:
She is glad the birds have left
She is glad her simple worsted grey
Is silver now with clinging mist.
The barren, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I cannot truly see these,
And it bothers me to not know why.
It wasn’t yesterday I learned that
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it would be vain to tell her this,
And they are better for her praise.
L – Personification, repetition, pathetic fallacy …show more content…
O – The speaker is imagining his personal sorrows as a lover, and finding comfort in similar miserable things such as barren trees- throughout the poem he extremely subtly confronts the idea that he is forcing himself to remain miserable, has repeated his mistakes, and it is simply not worth the effort to come out of his depression.
T – Sorrow, Solitude, Silence
T – In Robert Frost’s frantic poem My November Guest, Frost uses personification to the extreme by having the speaker’s melancholy depression take on the form and actions of a lover. Thus begins a sort of personal journey in which the speaker analyzes his reasons for being full of sorrow, how he is (or is not) coping with it, how it came to be, and what, in the end, he should do about it.
T – ‘My November Guest’ is most likely a reference to the last paragraph of the poem, in which the speaker recalls past sorrow- this instant the entire poem is referring to is not his first barren-tree run around with
sorrow.
S – First Person Perspective.
In Robert Frost’s frantic poem My November Guest, Frost uses personification to the extreme by having the speaker’s melancholy depression take on the form and actions of a lover. Thus begins a sort of personal journey in which the speaker analyzes his reasons for being full of sorrow, how he is (or is not) coping with it, how it came to be, and what, in the end, he should do about it. Repetition is used to great effect in two contrasting ways- repetition showcases what the sorrow revels in, seeking grey, colorless environments so as the host cannot be distracted from the sorrow, and repetition in that the speaker repeats the same mistakes that create sorrow in the first place. The analyzation of ‘Sorrow’ as a person can become extremely complex and convoluted if not careful. The ‘Sorrow’ takes pleasure in multiplying itself to become a heavy burden on the host. It seeks out desolation and despair so as to feel more at home, and ensures the host loses hope to become happy again, and have them feel at hope with desolation and despair along with the Sorrow. Personification is extremely influential on the reader and the poem itself, and it is extremely strong imagery to picture your sorrow taking on a sentient form.
P – My Sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark Autumn days full of rain
Are the most beautiful kinds of days;
She loves the withered, bare trees
She walks the wet pasture trail
Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She speaks and I am happy to listen:
She is glad the birds have left
She is glad her simple worsted grey
Is silver now with clinging mist.
The barren, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I cannot truly see these,
And it bothers me to not know why.
It wasn’t yesterday I learned that
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it would be vain to tell her this,
And they are better for her praise.
L – Personification, repetition, pathetic fallacy …show more content…
O – The speaker is imagining his personal sorrows as a lover, and finding comfort in similar miserable things such as barren trees- throughout the poem he extremely subtly confronts the idea that he is forcing himself to remain miserable, has repeated his mistakes, and it is simply not worth the effort to come out of his depression.
T – Sorrow, Solitude, Silence
T – In Robert Frost’s frantic poem My November Guest, Frost uses personification to the extreme by having the speaker’s melancholy depression take on the form and actions of a lover. Thus begins a sort of personal journey in which the speaker analyzes his reasons for being full of sorrow, how he is (or is not) coping with it, how it came to be, and what, in the end, he should do about it.
T – ‘My November Guest’ is most likely a reference to the last paragraph of the poem, in which the speaker recalls past sorrow- this instant the entire poem is referring to is not his first barren-tree run around with
sorrow.
S – First Person Perspective.
In Robert Frost’s frantic poem My November Guest, Frost uses personification to the extreme by having the speaker’s melancholy depression take on the form and actions of a lover. Thus begins a sort of personal journey in which the speaker analyzes his reasons for being full of sorrow, how he is (or is not) coping with it, how it came to be, and what, in the end, he should do about it. Repetition is used to great effect in two contrasting ways- repetition showcases what the sorrow revels in, seeking grey, colorless environments so as the host cannot be distracted from the sorrow, and repetition in that the speaker repeats the same mistakes that create sorrow in the first place. The analyzation of ‘Sorrow’ as a person can become extremely complex and convoluted if not careful. The ‘Sorrow’ takes pleasure in multiplying itself to become a heavy burden on the host. It seeks out desolation and despair so as to feel more at home, and ensures the host loses hope to become happy again, and have them feel at hope with desolation and despair along with the Sorrow. Personification is extremely influential on the reader and the poem itself, and it is extremely strong imagery to picture your sorrow taking on a sentient form.