Frost's Narrow Individualism In Two Tramps In Mud Time
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Clare Clifford and John Miller English 102 18 January, 2000
In poems like "The Wood Pile" Frost gives the impression that humanity is
the source of order in the world. Ironically, however, for all its rage
for order, humanity seems to be able to achieve such order only momentarily.
The division o ....
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.... entity, not merely
a disharmonious collection of words.
At the outset of the poem, the narrator gives a very superficial
view of himself, almost seeming angered when one of the tramps interferes
with his wood chopping: "one of them put me off my aim". This statement,
along with many others, seems to focus on "me" or "my", indicating the
apparrent selfishness and arrogance of the narrator: "The blows that a
life of self-control/Spares to strike for the common good/That day, giving
a loose ....
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