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Poet: Robert Frost
Poem: 27.
The Line-Gang
Volume: Mountain Interval
Year: Published/Written in 1916
Poem of the Day:
Oct 20 2006
Comment 2 of 2, added on November 23rd, 2005 at 8:52 AM.
this poem reflects the anxiety felt by Frost in terms of urban expansion. The necessary evils of progress and technology are contrasted with the death of the natural world at the hands of men. It's a double edge sword in that we create and destruct the environment around us for the sake of our own attempts at creating a world that is connected but detached from the very thing that sustains us. The line gang expresses a universal fear of progress and the consequences of technological advances. Alienation, anxiety and fear comprise this short poem and gives us a look into our own era in which leaps and bounds are made daily for the advancement of humanity. But we are left with more questions than answers in terms of what kind of future we're building.
jen from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on September 13th, 2005 at 9:39 PM.
Frost in his poem "The Line Gang" from his book "Western Interval" laments the destruction of the forests "less
cut than broken" by the "gangs" putting up telephone and telegraph poles. "plant dead trees(poles)for the living and the dead" He decries these boisterous vulgar workmen who destroy the beauty of the wild he foresees towns which will suplant the wilds. His use of the negative spurrious lexical term gang asserts his opinion. Frost pleads his case against unplanned changing times In the folowing poem his fears are expressed.
Changing Horizons
Now too much depends
On crowding
Littered backyards
And electronics
Straight back
And easy chairs
Soft mattresses
And winding stairs
Deeds of Violence
Too little depends on
Pausing
Listenng to silence
Migrating fauna and
Gazing at the horizons
Shimon Weinroth
Shimon Weinroth from Israel
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this poem reflects the anxiety felt by Frost in terms of urban expansion. The necessary evils of progress and technology are contrasted with the death of the natural world at the hands of men. It's a double edge sword in that we create and destruct the environment around us for the sake of our own attempts at creating a world that is connected but detached from the very thing that sustains us. The line gang expresses a universal fear of progress and the consequences of technological advances. Alienation, anxiety and fear comprise this short poem and gives us a look into our own era in which leaps and bounds are made daily for the advancement of humanity. But we are left with more questions than answers in terms of what kind of future we're building.
jen from United States