Frost employs many techniques to express the emotions, feelings, and poignancy that young children experience in rural America. Frost places great importance on exploring this theme and injecting subtle vocabulary, allegory, syntax, and syntax. He treats it with the same lustre. Frost’s poem depicts a dark and malicious image of an innocent being overpowered by the industrialized world. This theme is a common theme in many of his poems.
Frost immediately conveys the feeling that industry is trying to take over rural life. Frost’s example is: “And it rattled and rattled, snarled & rattled.” Frost immediately conveys the sense that the rural idyll is being encroached upon by industry. Frost explores other themes in the poem. Frost may be commenting on the naivety, shortsightedness, and inadequacy of rural American farmers. Frost is using the events throughout the poem to draw attention to this: “From there, those that lifted eyes could see five mountain ranges.” Frost makes a subtle, but profound, inference about how farmers don’t understand the amazing beauty of nature around them. Instead, they destroy it. Another example is the “No one believed” extract. This shows the child’s ignorance and the stupidity of others who encourage industry. Similar quotes to the above increase the reader’s empathy and their abject dislike for adults. This factor greatly enhances the piece’s emotional impact and increases its effectiveness.
The technical protagonists of conveying these themes are syntax and vocabulary. Frost illustrates this by using childish phrases such as “Big boy doing an adult’s job.” He also reveals how adults are taking away his childhood innocence. Frost seems to have had one primary goal in choosing vocabulary: to emphasize the shortness of the child’s existence. This is evident in the Shakespearian quotation “Out, Out-brief Candle.” It also refers to the insignificance and fragility of life: “No more to add to it.”
The poem also focuses on continuity. It is often expressed through vulgarity and industry. It causes undeniable emotions in the reader. Frost probably resonated with Frost’s very morbid comments on the absurdity and lack of substance in the adult world.
Frost uses an extensive range of advanced techniques to express the actual event. However, Frost’s imagery is what immediately strikes the reader. The metaphoric “meeting” of saw and flesh with the other is also profound. It was not, however, that neither of them refused to meet.” This suggests that the boy is suicidal, but it also allegorically shows a willful merging two opposing ways of living.
Despite appearing simple and boring at first, Frost slowly unveils a new piece of poetry. It is a comment suitable for many of his other works.
