The Most of It by Robert Frost

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water up ahead,
And landed pouring like a waterfall,
And stumbled through the rocks with horny tread,
And forced the underbrush - and that was all.






This short poem illustrates the story of a lonely man seeking for human contact, and his fleeting encounter with a buck who just couldn't care less.

The poem begins with the man, a nameless individual in a mysterious, unidentified location. It is learned a little about this man at first, other than the fact that he appears isolated: "He thought he kept the universe alone". The loneliness of his physical location appears to support this view: he is surrounded by a lake, by "tree-hidden" cliffs, by a "boulder-broken beach".

There is also a point where it is understood that there is a desire for human contact. Despite of his feeling that he is the only person in the whole universe, he longs to be proved wrong, and often calls out across the lake, his words being met only by "the mocking echo of his own". This ...

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