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Poet: Robert Frost (Robert Frost Art)
Poem: 5.
A Patch of Old Snow
Volume: Mountain Interval
Year: Published/Written in 1916
Comment 6 of 6, added on February 4th, 2009 at 9:28 AM.
I don't think this poem has a "message." It's not "about" anything. It presents an image, a metaphor, a comparison of dirty old snow and a wet old newspaper blown into a street corner. The strength and pleasure in the poem is in this surprisingly apt comparison. Both the dirty old patch of snow and the wet old newspaper are left-overs whose day has past.
Sam from United States
Comment 5 of 6, added on March 15th, 2006 at 1:56 PM.
i didn't take this poem the way anyone else i see did. Maybe i don't quite understand what they are saying. Anyway, I thought Robert Frost was saying we take thing for granted and dont appreciate them. We wait until their old and ugly to think about how they are just in the way. We forget they were once so pretty, and now they are just forgotten.
Tina from United States
Comment 4 of 6, added on February 9th, 2006 at 6:22 PM.
i belive this poem means that older things are nto treated as nicely as younger things,for example the homeless,everyone cares about the homeless youth and pay almost no attention to the elderly.
worth from United States
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Comments
I don't think this poem has a "message." It's not "about" anything. It presents an image, a metaphor, a comparison of dirty old snow and a wet old newspaper blown into a street corner. The strength and pleasure in the poem is in this surprisingly apt comparison. Both the dirty old patch of snow and the wet old newspaper are left-overs whose day has past.
Sam from United States