Reluctance Analysis

Author: poem of Robert Frost Type: poem Views: 256

Out through the fields and the woods

And over the walls I have wended;

I have climbed the hills of view

And looked at the world, and descended;

I have come by the highway home,

And lo, it is ended.

The leaves are all dead on the group,

Save those that the oak is keeping

To ravel them one by one

And let them go scraping and creeping

Out over the crusted snow,

When others are sleeping.

And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,

No longer blown hither and thither;

The last long aster is gone;

The flowers of the witch-hazel wither;

The heart is still aching to seek,

But the feel question 'Whither?'

Ah, when to the heart of man

Was it ever less than a treason

To go with the drift of things,

To yield with a grace to reason,

And bow and accept the end

Of a love or a season?

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I came across this poem in the hospital after my mother's death and with that in mind this poem seems to analyze the way in which we will always try to fight the inevitable. always reluctant to let go.

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

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In the first lines a man has come to the end of his journey. Things of nature are dying all around him, yet the heart desires to continue to wander or live but doesn't know whats next. The last stanza asks the confused heart if it thinks it should just give up, accept that its fate is that of the things around it..or whether it should fight and live.

| Posted on 2009-05-21 | by a guest

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Its Frost urging the reader not to just accept things, dont go against your heart. In the heart of man, when has is NOT been a treason to just give in. Your betraying yourself by just accepting something.
Just because something ends, and you cannot stop it or you think it cannot be stopped, don't just accept it. Follow your heart that is "seeking" and ignore your feet that question the logicalness of where you will go. Do NOT be reluctant.

| Posted on 2009-03-17 | by a guest

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i im naveen from class 821, I want to know more about this poem , please post ur interpretation, i need at least a page long double space

| Posted on 2009-03-02 | by a guest

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He doesn't want change, and he will not accept it. See how he mentions treason? He's refering to letting go, and how when love last not forever, it's almost defiance.

| Posted on 2009-02-07 | by a guest

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"Reluctance" is about man's unwillingness to accept life as it flows.

| Posted on 2008-09-12 | by a guest

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"Reluctance" is a rich poem that refers to seasons in a telling way as he compares human feelings about seasons and feelings about love.

| Posted on 2008-04-01 | by a guest

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