Acceptance - A poem by Robert Frost


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Robert Frost - Acceptance

When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud
And goes down burning into the gulf below,
No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud
At what has happened. Birds, at least must know
It is the change to darkness in the sky.
Murmuring something quiet in her breast,
One bird begins to close a faded eye;
Or overtaken too far from his nest,
Hurrying low above the grove, some waif
Swoops just in time to his remembered tree.
At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe!
Now let the night be dark for all of me.
Let the night bee too dark for me to see
Into the future. Let what will be, be.'

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Poet: Robert Frost Poem: 8. Acceptance Volume: West-Running Brook Year: Published/Written in 1928 Comment 5 of 5, added on April 16th, 2007 at 9:14 PM. this poem was written late in his career and he is comenting on the acceptance of his fate, i.e.-death for all you slow ones out there chris from United States Comment 4 of 5, added on April 1st, 2006 at 4:45 AM. I like the poems of Robert Frost very much。 But I do not quite understand the last sentence of the poem。 Does it have any symbolic meaning ？ What does the author want to express through the sentence？ Snow from China Comment 3 of 5, added on November 18th, 2005 at 8:30 AM. you people are retarded. This poem is about accepting things that you can't control such as the night turning to dark and anything else for that matter. thanks for no help! yo from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Acceptance, has received 5 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Robert Frost with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Robert Frost Poem: 8. Acceptance Volume: West-Running Brook Year: Published/Written in 1928 Last read: Jul 24 2008, 1:17PM Viewed 10805 times. Added on November 18th, 2005 at 8:30 AM.

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