This theme can be closely tied with the theme of duty, in that rationality wins over imagination due to the rural lifestyle of those living in Frosts poems. The people living in rural New England Frost refers to in his poetry are required to make a decision between rationality and imagination; as if they cannot exist in unison. In Frost's poetry the adults generally uphold their rationality as an affliction of duty, but there are certain instances when the suggestion of imagination is almost too seductive to bear. For example, in lines 49 and 50 of the poem “Birches,” Frost states “I’d like to get away from earth for awhile/ and then come back to it again and start over”. The storyteller wishes he could climb the infinite birch tree as he once did in his childhood and leave the rational world, if only for a brief instant.. In Frosts mind this capability to escape rationality and enjoy in the freedom of imagination is restricted to the young.
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In the poem “Out, Out” a young boy battles with these reoccurring theme of rationality vs imagination. In lines 23 and 24 Frosts shows us this battle by stating “Since he was old enough to know, big boy/ Doing a man’s work, though a child at heart”. As a result of this conflict, Frost makes the poem “Out, Out” even more tragic by writing about a young boy who gives up his freedom of imagination behind to work at a man’s job and ultimately perishes in the end. In lines 24 and 25 Frosts writes “He saw all spoiled. “Don’t let him cut my hand off—/ The doctor, when he comes. Don’t let him, sister!” almost as to say it wasn’t till the very end the boy was finally relieved of his duty and allowed to be a child again. In the final lines frosts
In the poem “Out, Out” a young boy battles with these reoccurring theme of rationality vs imagination. In lines 23 and 24 Frosts shows us this battle by stating “Since he was old enough to know, big boy/ Doing a man’s work, though a child at heart”. As a result of this conflict, Frost makes the poem “Out, Out” even more tragic by writing about a young boy who gives up his freedom of imagination behind to work at a man’s job and ultimately perishes in the end. In lines 24 and 25 Frosts writes “He saw all spoiled. “Don’t let him cut my hand off—/ The doctor, when he comes. Don’t let him, sister!” almost as to say it wasn’t till the very end the boy was finally relieved of his duty and allowed to be a child again. In the final lines frosts