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Poet: Robert Frost
Poem: 7.
The Telephone
Volume: Mountain Interval
Year: Published/Written in 1916
Comment 11 of 11, added on April 2nd, 2008 at 5:56 AM.
This poem is about a husband and wife who had an argument. We can see that the man is angry and he walks off. His wife misses him and wants him to come back. He misses her also and he imagines her telling him to come back through a flower he sees. The flower reminds him of her. The wife was actually thinking of him coming back when she was near a flower. This shows the really close bond that the couple had and there ability to know what the other is thinking even if they are miles apart.
Adriana from Australia
Comment 10 of 11, added on May 25th, 2007 at 2:06 PM.
I think this poem is magnificent and reminds me alot of someone that you may miss from time to time. The excitment of having that special person call is a feeling that you can never explain only feel. You feel light as a feather and relieved yet anxious all at the same time.
Mary Gonzalez from United States
Comment 9 of 11, added on February 14th, 2006 at 12:56 PM.
This poem is about sex. In the beginning, as Frost discusses the distance he has placed between himself and the woman he's with, he's discussing the almost mystical state of the verge of orgasm. His eyes are literally shut, figuratively sending him 'as far as I could walk'.
The flower is one of man's oldest symbols for a woman's genitalia, which is also a key symbol in this poem. The woman is represented in her totality as a flower, or her sexual power, upon which Frost lays his mind, his 'head'.
Given the size of the flower symbolically, the bee should not be regarded as such a small insect. Rather, the bee is what prevents Frost from orgasm, what keeps him from releasing himself into the darkness of an utterly ecstatic state.
It is his lover's voice that allows him to brush the bee away, and his lover's voice that tells him ultimately to orgasm, to 'come'. In the end, he finds himself guided to bliss by path he has taken, by the flower itself, despite his initial attempt to seal himself away through distance and achieve bliss on his own.
James from United States
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This poem is about a husband and wife who had an argument. We can see that the man is angry and he walks off. His wife misses him and wants him to come back. He misses her also and he imagines her telling him to come back through a flower he sees. The flower reminds him of her. The wife was actually thinking of him coming back when she was near a flower. This shows the really close bond that the couple had and there ability to know what the other is thinking even if they are miles apart.
Adriana from Australia