Robert Frost Ideas

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of beauty left by his fellow worker
causes the speaker to feel that he is no longer alone. There is a sense
of understanding between the speaker and the mower, because an
appreciation of beauty unites them.

Frost uses peaceful images to relate the feeling of his poem. The
setting is in a grassy field with a brook running through it. The
tranquil feeling is added to by a silent butterfly, who searches for a
flower upon which to land. In keeping with the peaceful surroundings,
Frost speaks of a long scythe ³whispering to the ground,² and of
hearing ³wakening birds around.² The speaker also listens for a
whetstone ³on the breeze² to determine if there is anyone around, and
finds a ³leaping tongue of bloom² beside the ³reedy brook.²

³The Tuft of Flowers² does not contain a definite meter, but it does
have a strict rhyme scheme of AA, BB. The poem is organized in
couplets, each of which contains a single thought. This makes the poem
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