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Frost's Narrow Individualism In Two Tramps In Mud Time - College Term Papers

Frost's Narrow Individualism In Two Tramps In Mud Time

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 of humanity/nature gives a false impression of the completion
of the analogy order/chaos.(hand out )

Two Tramps in Mud Time

On the surface, "Two Tramps in Mud Time" seems to display Robert
Frost's narrow individualism. The poem, upon first reading it, seems
incongruent, with some of the stanzas having no apparent connection to the
whole poem. The poem as a whole also does not appear to ...

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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 to my soul,/I spent on the unimportant wood." The narrator refers
to releasing his suppressed anger not upon evils that threaten "the common
good", but upon the "unimportant wood". The appparent arrogance of the
narrator is revealed as well by his reference to himself as a Herculean
figure standing not alongside nature, but over it: "The grip on earth of
outspread feet,/The life of muscles rocking soft/And smooth and moist in
vernal heat."

Unexpectedly, the narrator then turns toward nature, apparently
abandoning his initial train of thought. He reveals the unpredictability
of nature, saying that even in the middle of spring, it can be "two months
back in the middle of March." Even the fauna ...

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Added: 2/21/2006 06:46:12 AM
Category: Poetry & Poets
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 561
Pages: 3

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