Summary Of Two Tramps In Mud Time By Robert Frost

Many Americans consider Robert Frost as one of the best poets of the twentieth century. Frost was a professor, writer, and lover to his wife Elinor, Robert and Elinor had six children together, Roberts’ family was his main muse for writing the chilling poems and short stories that he did. He was a poet who embraced his pain and put them into wonderfully crafted words that explain everything that is happening in the story without using more words than necessary. Frost was an expert with dealing with grief and loneliness. He buried four of his kids and wife before he died at the age of eighty-eight in nineteen sixty-three. Frosts’ writing was heavily influenced by what happened during his lifetime and evolved more in a darker hue with all the deaths that he lived through are prominent in “Fire and Ice”, “Draft Horse”, and “Two Tramps in Mud Time”.
In the poem “Fire and Ice” there is a noticeable theme of death present. His father was a known drunk, his father was also violent and in the line “I think I know enough of hate” could be referring to the fact …show more content…
“And the work is play for mortal stakes/ Is the deed ever really done/ For Heaven and the future’s sakes” (Fraser), is the closing rhyme giving way to his daughter who is no longer with him. The beginning of the stanza speaks of separation and lost love leaving to think that his grand child and son-in-law have lost someone dear. There are other prominent features throughout the poem on the verge of death or sickness. Frost mourns death of all his children in the only way he knew how- in words, because in the beginning of the poem is a stanza about spring in April and May believing to be a gateway to life until the end when it puts the stanza back in March when the world is still cold can be a relation to his son who died just three days after