Hi- I need help analyzing the Robert Frost poem "The Most of It". Ive been looking for it everywhere online and i can't find anything!!! Please help- I have an AP essay tomorrow!!!
If u can help- my AIM s/n is carterfrvr. I'm lonine till 6 pm! Please someone help!!
Rachel
The Most of It
He thought he kept the universe alone;
For all the voice in answer he could wake
Was but the mocking echo of his own
From some tree-hidden cliff across the lake.
Some morning from the boulder-broken beach
He would cry out on life, that what it wants
Is not its own love back in copy speech,
But counter-love, original response.
And nothing ever came of what he cried
Unless it was the embodiment that crashed
In the cliff's talus on the other side,
And then in the far-distant water splashed,
But after a time allowed for it to swim,
Instead of proving human when it neared
And someone else additional to him,
As a great buck it powerfully appeared,
Pushing the crumpled 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.
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Blah, go to Google, type in: "The Most of It", Robert Frost, criticism. You should get some hits there.
Les
Post Edited (02-13-05 17:00)
So ... what's the title reference? Make the most of it?
so does anyone have any explanations on this paper. i have a midterm on it tommorrow and coud use some help. thanks in advance.
Andrew, the key to unlocking this verse probably lies here:
Is not its own love back in copy speech,
But counter-love, original response.
Many times we seek from nature, or God, a response. But not fully understanding how nature/God speaks, we may not recognize any response should one come to us. So we must learn to function in this world without recognizing Supernatural signs, just learn to live and make the most of what we can see and understand.
Les
Post Edited (03-08-05 14:48)