What Is The Mood Of The Poem Macbeth By Robert Frost

The story unfolds during the poem, of the young farm boy having his hand severed by a wood saw, came from a newspaper article that frost read.However, being a poet, frost does not simply reproduce the details of the article as a narrative.He carefully selects the details to use and the ones to omit so that his poem,based on the factual,unemotional newspaper report of one particular farm boy’s tragic death becomes a poem exploring the fragility of life,its apparent cheapness and the constant presence of death in our lives which can happen at any moment,making this poem have a universal effect rather than a personal elegy for the dead body.

Robert Frost often uses the backdrop of new England landscape to expose the darker aspects of human
To conclude the poem opens with the saw being personified as a savage animal this is achieved through the use of onomatopoeic verbs such as snarled and rattled.A series of alliteration is used to appeal to our senses and bring the scene to life.In the opening 6 lines we hear the sounds of the yard, the smell of the cut wood, feel the breeze and see the mountain ranges; Frost paints a picture with words and brings it to life.The beauty of the landscape is masked by the repetition of snarled and rattled which create a tension and sense of foreboding.The personification of the saw accumulates throughout the poem and eventually turns into a wild animal leaping to the boy's hand.The finality and nature of the boy's injury are conveyed when the doctor calls and puts him under anastatic.Then finally in the last few lines, the people go on with their affairs.This shows the reattached emotions people had back then.Frost shows no indication that the family grieved for him just an example of how life will carry on after