Robert Frost Poet Project

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Robert Frost

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Born: March 26, 1874 in San Francsico
Died: January 29, 1963 in Boston MA
Poet, Speaker, and Farmer

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Interesting Facts:
1. Attended Dartmouth College and Harvard

2.Was a farmer by day,but poet/writer by night

3. Won four Pulitzer Prizes

4.Had 30 of his poems put together in one book.

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Poem Chosen: Prayer in Spring
Stanza 1:
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

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Stanza 2:
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

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Stanza 3:
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

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Stanza 4:
For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.

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Meaning of Poem:

This poem is demonstrated through a prayer that explains how we must fulfill the goals God set for us and that we should move on from being down or unpleasant but always be happy like darting birds.

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Figurative Language Included:

Stanza 1: And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; --Simile

Stanza 2:Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; --Simile

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Overall View on Poem:
I really enjoyed it!