gn="justify">. symbolism of snow and stars is nuanced very subtly in Frost s poems. Forest and brook turn out to be more complicated landscape constants. brook is the lightest symbol in Frost s poetry. It is the part of objectively existing New England landscape. Its appearance in poems defines the movement of thought in every verse. In The Tuft of Flowers the revealing of the sense of central figure brought into the title begins exactly from the brook. It (as a subject of a character s consciousness) gives evidence concerning the wish for finding the commonality with the world and people. It also shows his completeness in himself.
I went to turn the grass once after onemowed it in the dew before the sun.dew was gone that made his blade so keenI came to view the leveled scene.looked for him behind an isle of trees; listened for his whetstone on the breeze.he had gone his way ...
Frost s poems The Mountain and The Generations of Men ( North of Boston ) the brook becomes the source of creative process. In The Mountain the character s affection for empiric facts hinders his contact with an old mysterious farmer. The unhurried talk of these two men about an enormous hill hiding the sun from the people gradually narrows around the main object of the poem - the brook on the top of this mountain.
... "You've never climbed it?"
"I've been on the sides hunting and trout-fishing. There's a brook starts up on it somewhere - I've heard say on the top, tip-top - a curious thing. what would interest you about the brook, 's always cold in summer, warm in winter ...
farmer characterizes the brook as a miracle - it seems to be confronting with the run of time, the change of seasons of the year. The brook is cold in summer and hot in winter. This can be explained quite simply - water of a spring brook has constant temperature that seems warm or cold concerning air temperature. However, the problem set by the poem comes to light only when the character discovers that neither the farmer nor anybody else has ever seen this brook and that all the information he got is a myth. The farmer is quite satisfied with this legend and isn t eager to confirm it by some facts. The character, on the contrary, finds the corroboration by his own experience necessary. He is not sure whether the farmer is right or not. The ta...
