Robert Frost: "Death of the Hired Man" - Discuss

Question 1

dialogue

Answer 1

• used to reveal characterization and relationship between the three main characters (Mary, Warren, and Silas)
• reveal details of the setting of the poem

Question 2

one of the themes in Frost’s poem The Death of the Hired Man is what is “home.” In the dialogue in Lines 124-125, Mary describes home as

Answer 2

something you somehow don’t have to deserve

Question 3

according to the dialogue in lines 25-30 of Frost’s The Death of the Hired Man, what is the reason Silas keeps leaving Warren

Answer 3

Someone needing help during haying time coaxes Silas away with pocket money

Question 4

what lines in The Death of the Hired Man give clues to why Silas apparently doesn’t feel at home with his kin, his brother

Answer 4

lines 147-152

Question 5

from the dialogue in Lines 15-16 of Frost’s The Death of the Hired Man we learn that the hired man

Answer 5

is old and can do little to help now

Question 6

one of the themes in Frost’s poem The Death of the Hired Man is what is “home.” In the dialogue in Lines 122-123, Warren describes home as

Answer 6

the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in