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Death of Hired Man Poem

The document provides an overview of Robert Frost's dramatic monologue poem "The Death of the Hired Man". It discusses how Frost's poems can be categorized as either pure lyrics, which are personal expressions of the poet's emotions, or dramatic lyrics, which depict the emotions of imagined characters through dialogue or monologue. "The Death of the Hired Man" uses a dramatic monologue structure, with the central character being the hired man whose death is revealed at the end of the poem. The document also briefly discusses Frost's other dramatic monologue poem "Mending Wall".

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Death of Hired Man Poem

The document provides an overview of Robert Frost's dramatic monologue poem "The Death of the Hired Man". It discusses how Frost's poems can be categorized as either pure lyrics, which are personal expressions of the poet's emotions, or dramatic lyrics, which depict the emotions of imagined characters through dialogue or monologue. "The Death of the Hired Man" uses a dramatic monologue structure, with the central character being the hired man whose death is revealed at the end of the poem. The document also briefly discusses Frost's other dramatic monologue poem "Mending Wall".

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Death of Hired Man Dramatic monologue

The death of hired man published in north of Boston is one of the better know dramatic lyric of Robert le frost Drama is the key-note of poetry Frosts lyrics may b divided into two broad categories. They are pure lyrics and dramatic lyrics. Pure lyrics are short pieces, personal and subjective; in such short pieces we feel nearest to the poet for the theme, the poets personality is fully unfolded. They are in the nature of emotional responses particular situations which confront the poet. They are an expression of the poets own moods and emotions. The poet explores his own to his beloved, to strangers, to nature, to the universe, and to God. Dramatic lyrics are in the form either of dramatic dialogue or dramatic monologues, and they are much longer than the pure lyrics. The don not express the poets own personal responses but those of some imagined character or characters. Thus he achieves the some objectivity as characterizes as drama. Further, as in a drama they depict some sort of action the action is seen in terms of the effect they have on each other, in the give and take which results when peoples speak their minds to one another. In the dramatic monologue, on the other hand, the action is always psychological it consists of the change which takes place in the attitudes and emotional responses of the characters concerned. In the pure, personal lyrics frosts language has a rare smoothness, force and sublimity, frost provides dramatic intensity in his monologues by fixing attention on the moment of crisis. Such a moment is generally perceived intensely in the case of lonely characters as for example the traveler in stopping by wood on a snowy evening. The poem is one the frosts better known dramatic lyrics, it is dramatic because it closes not express the emotions of the poet, but of two imagined characters, a husband and his wife, and as in drama the narration is conducted through dialogue between them. The poem also achieves the emotional intensity of lyrics, specially towards it end. The central figure in the poem is the hired man. The final truth about his personality is his death When we learn of this at the end of the poem. Perhaps the most famous lines in the poem are those in which husband and wife exchanged definitions of home. Home is the place where, when your to go there, they have to take you in Mending Wall was also included in north of Boston, published in 1914. It is also a dramatic lyrics on monologue. They speaker is young man, presumably the poet himself and the lyrics is an expression of his views and attitudes. Apparently the monologue is merely descriptive. I should have called it, something you somehow have not to deserve This poem depicts a contrast / clash between these two point of views, and it may be therefore, seem that its meaning is the solution, frost offers to the conflict. There where it is we do not need the wall he is all pine and I am apple orchard. The contradiction is logical, for the opposing statements are altered by two different types of people and both are right. Man cannot live without wall boundaries, limits and particularly self limitations; yet he recent all bonds and it is happy at the downfall of any barrier. Good fences make good neighbors.

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