Literary Analysis Of Spring Pools By Robert Frost

Spring Pools by Robert Frost presents climate change’s adversity upon nature to exemplify the volatility of the human psyche. The poem disguises meaning in mundane language that on first dissection appear ordinary, yet on further thorough analysis of literary technique the language transubstantiates to draw profound meanings. Frost develops an ominous tone through structured language and literary techniques such as disguised meta-reference and juxtaposition to appeal to the logos and pathos and personify nature to embody the changes of the human mind against fate. Spring Pools adheres to a Stanzaic form divided into two sestets consisting of two sentences, each sestet follows an established ending rhyme scheme, AABCBC including a slant rhyme used in the second sestet’s first line. The metre is predominantly iambic pentameter with specific poetic extrametrical feet substitutions. The first sestet appeals to the logos and establishes a course of events to transpire correspondingly to the changing season. This sestet utilizes forced organized pausing supported by line breaks and commas; moreover in combination with internal rhymes and alliteration of the thorn consonant in the first …show more content…
Robert Frost uses literary techniques to disguise deeper meaning within simple word associations. These literary techniques contribute to an extended metaphor juxtaposed by identified opposing forces of a natural ecosystem absent animate life. What is read to be taken for literal metamorphoses into larger intentional meaning when the utilization of his literary techniques are exposed. The predetermined course of temporal events is the larger adhesive that binds life and the speaker in the