Robert Frost
In each of his poems, Robert Frost uses multiple stylistic devices and figurative language to convey certain theme, mostly having to do with nature, that ultimately show his modernist style and modernist views on life.
In the poem “Mowing,” the speaker of the poem is mowing his field trying to make grass. While doing this, he ponders the sound that his scythe is trying to “whisper” (Frost 26). The poem is organized into two sections: an octet and a sextet. In the octet, Frost mainly focuses on the sound that the scythe is trying to make by using personification of the scythe. The speaker, in the first part, is trying to describe the “whispering of the scythe” (26) as something very abstract and imaginative. However, in the sextet, he completely rejects any idea that is something abstract like “heat” or “silence,” or that it is anything imaginary, such as “elves” (26). At this point in the poem, Frost focuses purely on fact and the reality of the labor of......
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