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Robert Frost - An Encounter

ONCE on the kind of day called “weather breeder,”
When the heat slowly hazes and the sun
By its own power seems to be undone,
I was half boring through, half climbing through
A swamp of cedar. Choked with oil of cedar
And scurf of plants, and weary and over-heated,
And sorry I ever left the road I knew,
I paused and rested on a sort of hook
That had me by the coat as good as seated,
And since there was no other way to look,
Looked up toward heaven, and there against the blue,
Stood over me a resurrected tree,
A tree that had been down and raised again—
A barkless spectre. He had halted too,
As if for fear of treading upon me.
I saw the strange position of his hands—
Up at his shoulders, dragging yellow strands
Of wire with something in it from men to men.
“You here?” I said. “Where aren’t you nowadays
And what’s the news you carry—if you know?
And tell me where you’re off for—Montreal?
Me? I’m not off for anywhere at all.
Sometimes I wander out of beaten ways
Half looking for the orchid Calypso.”

Added: on December 21st, 2005 at 6:18 PM | Viewed: 6184 times | Comments and analysis of An Encounter by Robert Frost Comments (3)


An Encounter - Comments and Information

Poet: Robert Frost
Poem: 17. An Encounter
Volume: Mountain Interval
Year: Published/Written in 1916

Comment 3 of 3, added on May 25th, 2007 at 2:10 PM.

the encounter brings a fimilarity to many people including myself. when you have those moments when you see someone that you either hardly know or knew better than yourself and yet you have drifted apart, and you see them there. in front of you as if you want to run up to them and greet them yet something unexplainably stops you in mid tracks. what is it that always makes you stop?

mary gonzalez
Comment 2 of 3, added on April 19th, 2006 at 6:24 PM.

Dude this one went right over your head didn’t it the resurrected tree is a telephone poll...not Jesus, nice try though. Don’t believe me? look this poem up in his book "for young people"

aNdy from United States
Comment 1 of 3, added on December 21st, 2005 at 6:18 PM.

this poem may look short but it has alot of meaning like when he talks about the resurrected tree he is talking about Jesus

Shav from United States

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