A Tuft Of Flowers By Robert Frost Essay

Discovering perspectives of ourselves provoke a re-evaluation of self and the world around us. The emotional, spiritual, intellectual processes, of discovery, may provoke profound re-evaluations challenging personal perceptions, and beliefs. Robert Frost', poem “A Tuft of Flowers,” engages with feelings of isolation, whereby nature catalyses a new outlook on ourselves and the world by challenging our previously held assumptions. The ramifications of discovering mortality and the limitations of life are also explored in the poem “After Apple picking,” influencing our perceptions of our place in the world surrounding us. Similarly Hattie Daltons film, “Third Star,” displays the consequence of the realisation of the futility of mankind, resulting …show more content…
Frosts express this through the existential thinking of the persona, through his apple harvest. Frost utilises the symbolism, “essence of winter sleep,” capturing his exhaustion at the end of the day, not just from the labour but because of the soporific ‘scent of the apples.’ Frost does this to evoke a discovery of the contemplations of one’s life. Furthermore, the hyperbole, “ten thousand fruit to touch..” stresses, the amount he has touched and, “cherish[ed] in hand,” with the aim that he must, “not let fall,” illustrates the discovery of the limits of the human experience. This exaggerates the logistical and emotional nightmare created by the overabundance of his harvest, confronting the personas perception of life, and difficulty in achieving all his aspirations in life. Frosts recurring motif of sleep, “one can see what will trouble this sleep of mine,” represents his discovery of the difficulty of sleeping, as he is enlightening with a new understanding of life's, final sleep as death. Frost conveys mortality and realisations of the limitations of life, can significantly alter an individual's perception of the world and