Analysis, meaning and summary of Robert Frost's poem The Vantage Point

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  1. Ben Dover says:

    this poem be da dopest shit I do seen.

  2. jobe says:

    this der poem is da bestest ive done did reed great bibografy my cat enjoys it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. AnGuRuSO says:

    “To a slope where the cattle keep the lawn.”

    I love that simile

    This reminds me strongly of “Ave Maria” another beauty frost

  4. John Ladd says:

    This is one of Frost’s roughly two dozen sonnets. As in virtually every one of them, he plays with the formal aspects of the sonnet. (For the best example of this see “The Silken Tent.” There the sonnet is both Italian and English, just as the tent and the woman are both bound and free.)
    Here, he uses the typical English rhyme (three quatrains of ABBA and a closing rhymed couplet). But, he divides the poem at the 8th line’s end to look like an Italian sonnet and even indents the final six lines to look Italian. He also makes the turn obvious, even using the phrase “turn on my arm,” to show how his change of his body from facing down the hill to up the hill changes his perspective.
    I really enjoy the irony of the premise of the whole poem being his seeking mankind by observing them from afar. When he re-turns to nature (he’d was tired of trees in line one) in the final six lines, his relationship and proximity to nature is much closer and involved.

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