Robert Frost

Another week long disscussion of a poet is finished and I really liked this weeks battle with the poems. It was challenging and made my mind twist and turn at times but I was able to get a grasp of where I was in the poem. We went over "For Once, Then Something" and "The Silken Tent" in class but I just wanted to take another poem and see what I can get out of without any prompts or anything. Frost is one of my favorite poets from this class so far and find him to be that American voice we have been searching for. He ties everything up most of the time in the last line of his poem with a question or wisdom that makes us look at ourselves and reflect. The poem I will be looking at is, "Putting in the Seed".

I see this poem as the metaphor for birth and even sex. He is a slave to a springtime passion for the earth." I love the word passion it tells you about everything and how powerful it is. This springtime passion the speaker has is a lady friend who he is "planting in the seed" with. The petals he is describing could be the innocence of the woman in white along with the other blossoms who are not as beautiful. The soil that tarnishes could be the change in the body as the woman who is pregnant begins to show more and more. My favorite line of the poem is the last line "shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs." The beauty that is found in nature can also be found in the birth of a human baby.