My November Guest - A poem by Robert Frost


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Robert Frost - My November Guest

My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.

Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She's glad the birds are gone away,
She's glad her simple worsted grady
Is silver now with clinging mist.

The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so ryly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for reason why.

Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell he so,
And they are better for her praise.

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Poet: Robert Frost Poem: 3. My November Guest Volume: A Boy's Will Year: Published/Written in 1913 Comment 19 of 19, added on May 11th, 2008 at 1:50 AM. Good site from Netherlands-Antilles Comment 18 of 19, added on May 8th, 2008 at 1:49 PM. the first time i read the poem, all i could think about was what he used to set a mood. Usually, when an author uses sentences like "faded earth, heavy sky," it is to set a gloomy mood in which he succeeds. I thought it was about a woman who was changing his life, and broadening his view of the world. But then I read it again and again, and i think that the poem really has to do with him, and only him. He can choose to dislike and begrudge change, gloominess, and desolation. But he doesnt- he learns to embrace it and realize that theres something meaningful in every detail. He can't deny his sorrow, but he doesn't succumb to it, he uses it to change his views on the world. It can be interpreted many ways though- and i think the way that people see it is what tells more about them, which i think poets are always trying to tell their readers. Mercedes from United States Comment 17 of 19, added on June 21st, 2007 at 6:18 AM. I am happy to read all this succes: you deserve it completely. Proud to work with you in Boston, next june. Please, take all the good thoughts streaming from my heart to you... Mistifica from Morocco More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, My November Guest, has received 19 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Robert Frost with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Robert Frost Poem: 3. My November Guest Volume: A Boy's Will Year: Published/Written in 1913 Last read: May 14 2008, 4:08PM Viewed 21968 times. Added on June 21st, 2007 at 6:18 AM.

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