Bereft by Robert Frost
Bereft by Robert Frost

Bereft

Robert Frost * Track #15 On West-Running Brook

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Bereft by Robert Frost

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Robert Frost wrote this poem when his then would-be wife, Elinor, left for college. He expressed the loneliness without her in this, projecting his personal emotions onto his surroundings.

Notice the recurring sound of ’s' in the mid-part of the poem. ‘Summer’, ‘Sombre’, ‘massed’, sagging', ‘hissed...

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Where had I heard this wind before
Change like this to a deeper roar?
What would it take my standing there for,
Holding open a restive door,
Looking down hill to a frothy shore?
Summer was past and the day was past.
Sombre clouds in the west were massed.
Out on the porch’s sagging floor,
Leaves got up in a coil and hissed,
Blindly struck at my knee and missed.
Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.

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