To E. T. Analysis

Author: Poetry of Robert Lee Frost Type: Poetry Views: 316

I slumbered with your poems on my breast
Spread open as I dropped them half-read through
Like dove wings on a figure on a tomb
To see, if in a dream they brought of you,

I might not have the chance I missed in life
Through some delay, and call you to your face
First soldier, and then poet, and then both,
Who died a soldier-poet of your race.

I meant, you meant, that nothing should remain
Unsaid between us, brother, and this remained--
And one thing more that was not then to say:
The Victory for what it lost and gained.

You went to meet the shell's embrace of fire
On Vimy Ridge; and when you fell that day
The war seemed over more for you than me,
But now for me than you--the other way.

How over, though, for even me who knew
The foe thrust back unsafe beyond the Rhine,
If I was not to speak of it to you
And see you pleased once more with words of mine?

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This poem is about the death of Edward Thomas who was Frost's british friend and he was a poet and Frost published a volume of E.Ts poems in the US. THe second stanza is about how Frost regrets what he did. Edward THomas died on the 9th April 1917 Vimy ridge. He died on the first day of the battle. "You went to meet the sheels embrace of fire" is politeness/meeting with a friend. It doesn't say that he was blown to pieces or burnt to a crisp. The way it is written makes it seem as if it is a meeting over coffee.

| Posted on 2009-10-30 | by a guest

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'E.T.' was Frost's friend and poet, Edward Thomas. He died in World War One, as part of the British and Canadian capture of 'Vimy Ridge', as stated in the poem, in 1917.

| Posted on 2009-10-14 | by a guest

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This poem is about T.S Eliot who Frost feuded with. E.T is Thomas Elitot backwards. It is satire because T.S Eliot always thought frost was an overrated poet.

| Posted on 2009-09-27 | by a guest

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The title "To E.T" is not about the well known character that many of us have seen on television. It is the initiails of Frosts best friend. Although E.T does not stand for "Extra terestrial" it could be interpreted as his friend being this alienated figure, because his friend is now dead.

| Posted on 2009-05-19 | by a guest

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