Frost

Question 1

Style/ techniques

Answer 1

• archaic sentence structures
• past tense/ present tense
• first and third person
• serious/ literal narrative tone

Question 2

The Wood Pile

Answer 2

• philosophical 1st person, internal conflicting narrator
• winter = death and cold unending fate ‘frozen swamp’
• chronological, lost in own mind metaphorically/ physically, concludes with destruction of nature
• single verse, unrhymed symbolising how nature cannot be contained by humans, liberality
• pathetic fallacy = connection between man/ nature

Question 3

The Road Not Taken

Answer 3

• ironic pessimistic tone/ philosophical/ anecdotal themes
• first person in past tense later to future
• natural imagery, autumn moving towards winter, life always leading towards death
• ‘yellow wood’ metaphorical place
• ‘trodden black’ use of colour imagery highlights end point in journey, futility of life/ pointlessness
• ‘Then’ discourse markers progression

Question 4

‘Out, Out - ‘

Answer 4

• detached omnicient, authorial voice, first person
• set at end o the day, preempting death
• fields in Vermont, specific wood yard
• single verse paragraphs to capture single incident, iambic pentameter = heartbeat, rhythm of ordinary speech
• chronologically of storytelling, caesura slows death, polysynderton lengthens time
• animal nature vs industrialisation