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Robert Frost - Fragmentary Blue

Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.

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Fragmentary Blue - Comments and Information

Poet: Robert Frost
Poem: 16. Fragmentary Blue
Volume: New Hampshire
Year: Published/Written in 1923
Poem of the Day: Dec 31 2001

Comment 3 of 3, added on February 5th, 2006 at 12:09 PM.

He opens his poem with this rhetorical question "Why make so much of fragmentarty blue?" Why are we attracted to this such color when we see it in butterflies and birds ect.
"when heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?" The sky above us is blue.
As Frost goes on through his poem he is suggesting that the sky is freedom and peace that everyone longs for when they pass. When we think of our dreamlike desires we think of the blue sky and clouds. Blue is also the color of relaxation and dreamlike desires.

Amelia from United States
Comment 2 of 3, added on January 5th, 2006 at 4:14 PM.

I love this poem.. and i love the colour blue, didnt know why untill i read this poem.

dina from Canada
Comment 1 of 3, added on October 6th, 2005 at 11:04 PM.

its so beautiful my parent love it and also my friends it is so interesting fact it can be your inspiration on your daily work............

RADISSON REY from Philippines

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