Death In Robert Frost: The Meaningless Of Life

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Introduction
“In three words I can sum up everything I know about life: it goes on” (Robert Frost). Robert Frost is easily one of america’s greatest poets. With their simplicity, fluidity, and their creativity his poets becomes something that anyone can pick up and understand. It is through his poems that his life’s philosophies are expressed. He simply does believe that life goes on. Death is something that must come and it is our job to respect it and accept it and move on. His poems usually share a common theme, it is our job to accept death and not try to question it, because it is through the questioning of death that our lives become complicated and unnecessary.

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Robert Frost (March 1874- January 1963), was born in one of the …show more content…

The allusion and this poem both express the meaningless of life and that death is the only constant in life and it comes with no explanation. Life is simply a “tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing” (Shakespeare) . This meaningless of life is expressed in the pome by the bluntness and harsh words of the announcement of the earth. After the brutal and gory scene of the death Robert Frost writes, “No more to build on there” this quote shows that after death there is nothing else and that the only thing that is important tis the death itself. The townspeople enforce this ideas as well by returning to their affairs since “they/ were not the one dead”. This harsh reality shows Robert Frost 's belief that it is our job to accept death and learn to acknowledge that there is only beauty in nature and death is not something to pour our hearts …show more content…

The speaker is going on a journey through the streets, with the night as a companion. This ability to be “acquainted with the night” parallels the personification of the saw within “Out Out--”. Both personifications drive the speaker to the end of their journey 's one ends with death and the other ends with the acceptance of depression. Both journeys are sad and painful journey that are accompanied with a beautiful natural setting. Between the sunset in “Out, Out--” and the lonely city street in “Acquainted with the Night” Robert Frost’s love for nature is seen and the use of nature as a landscape to mask the desolation of life. Within this poem, the use of “have been one acquainted with the night” leads to an understanding that speaker is currently companions with the night or his depression leading to the belief that he has fully accepted his depression and is figuring out how live with it. This acceptance of our fate correlates to Robert Frost’s belief that grief is not something to drag on and it is better to just accept our fate then try to understand

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