Into My Own Analysis

Author: poem of Robert Frost Type: poem Views: 381

One of my wishes is that those dark trees,

So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,

Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom,

But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

I should not be withheld but that some day

into their vastness I should steal away,

Fearless of ever finding open land,

or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.

I do not see why I should e'er turn back,

Or those should not set forth upon my track

To overtake me, who should miss me here

And long to know if still I held them dear.

They would not find me changed from him they knew--

Only more sure of all I though was true.

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How about taking this more at face value... He is talking about trekking into the unknown forest, dark but full of unknown challenges. Leaving behind societal obligations, paving the way for introspection. Adding consideration for special people in his life. The ultimate realization being that the convictions he previuosly held are the ones he holds true.

| Posted on 2009-09-16 | by a guest

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I would have to disagree with the death imagery. In line 9 Frost makes the suggestion that turning back was an option. As far as I know, death is an absolute. There is no returning from it. Rather, the dark imagery may express fears of the unknown. By stealing away into the unknown he may hope to escape the monotony of his life where "the slow wheel pours the sand."

| Posted on 2009-05-25 | by a guest

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I think has multiple meanings (like some other poems he has written), one being that he simply aims to leave his life behind, or simply be alone. With the trees metaphorically being the 'unknown' that he wants to get lost in. Then he doesn't regret leaving and he hasn't changed his mind, or something like that...
I think it can also be about death, and how he wants to leave his life and journey through the 'dark trees' (possibly imagery for death itself or the afterlife), and not regret dieing. Maybe he commited suicide. I don't know, its a pretty hard poem. It reminds me of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and After Apple Picking. I guess theyre all related since he did go through super mega depression.

| Posted on 2009-04-05 | by a guest

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i think tht this poem is mad confusing and that there is no point to it cuz it dont show anything but him wantiing to die.

| Posted on 2009-03-30 | by a guest

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Frost's use of negative diction is perhaps the largest clue to the true meaning of this poem. It becomes obvious that his reference to a "dark" woods is simply suggesting his death.

| Posted on 2008-12-12 | by a guest

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A wistful poem. The first image – that of dark, firm trees that appear as a ‘mask of gloom’ and the image of the slow wheel pouring out sand set the mood of the poem – gloomy, dark and monotonous.

It is this world that he wishes to ‘steal’ away from (die) and never ‘turn back’ – have no regrets. Because it is a dull and monotonous life. And he has no fear of the life at the edge of doom. But he ends the poem with a positive note - his confidence in his own beliefs, his love. Even in the world yonder he would neither lose his love for those he holds dear nor change his beliefs. While writing this, both ‘love’ and ‘beliefs’ may have meant the same for RF. He seems to be challenging those who love him to test his love for them. They might follow him or overtake – that is, die after or before him - but in the next world too they can be sure of his love.

| Posted on 2006-06-10 | by Approved Guest

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