Robert Frost's Use Of Metaphors And Personification In 'Bereft'

“Bereft” by Robert Frost is a poem which describes the feeling of lonely person. It is about the narrator (Frost himself) has lost someone that he truly had loved. The poem communicates the tremendous emptiness almost dangerous world of loneliness. He feels he stands alone, not only in his house but also in the world. He describes his surroundings as the world around him turns dark without the presence of his lost love. Everything even the nature seems hostile towards him. But at the end of the poem shows that he still has a strong faith in God. Overall the word “bereft” describes suffering from the death of a loved one.
Poet uses metaphors and personification to show the cruelty of nature. There is also a ray of hope in this poem. This poem seems to imply that although the devil tempts you with fear and loneliness, if you have faith you cannot be tempted
By using figurative language, Frost establishes the speaker's state of mind, and the circumstances surrounding it. By using metaphors, personification and careful word choice, in the poem the author has wrote a rhetorical question, “Where had I heard this wind …show more content…
In the beginning of the poem, it states “Where had I heard this wind before / change like this to a deeper roar.” This is clearly a metaphor because one cannot hear the wind. The wind is silent. Towards the middle, the porch has a “sagging floor” which is certainly personification. A floor cannot sag like that of an elderly person. Throughout this poem there is a dark, lonely sinister feeling. A snake made the “leave [get] up in a coil and [hiss]” which “blindly struck at [my] knee and missed.” The snake is a sinister symbol. This metaphor means that there are always going to be things striking at oneself. This is a depressing poem. Towards the end, it reminds the reader that the persona of the poem is alone, that he or she only has