 By Amanda Arquette & Kyle Sylvester

 Born on March 26, 1874  Much sadness throughout life  Poems never focused on own life  Died on January 29 th 1963

 Won Pulitzer in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943  Won the Mark Twaine Medal in 1987  Gold Metal of The National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1941  Participated in the 1961 Inauguration of John F. Kennedy  Had over 40 Honorary Degrees from college’s and universities

 1915  A Boy’s Will  Very similar to other works o “The Wood-Pile” o “Mowing”

 Outside o Rural o Nature  Morning o “I went to turn the grass once after one Who mowed it in the dew before the sun.” (1-2)

 Sorrowful o “gone” (3) o “isle of trees” (5) o “alone” (8)  Hopeful o “loved” (27) o “flourish” (28) o “sheer morning gladness” (30) o “kindred spirit” (35) o “glad” (37) o “hoped” (40) o “together” (42)

Rhyming  Heroic Couplets o Each line has 10 syllables o Every two lines rhyme  Rhyme Scheme o Aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, ff, gg, hh, ii, jj, kk, ll, mm, nn, oo, pp, qq, dd, rr, ss, ee Lines 9-10 and are repeated

Consonance  “And hear his long scythe whispering to the ground” (34) o Hear the scythe Alliteration  “On noiseless wing a ‘wildered butterfly” (12) o Butterfly whirling around  “At a tall tuft of flowers beside a brook” (22) o See the flowers

Anaphora  “And” (8, 15, 17, 18, 20, 34, 35, 39) o Narrative o Journey o Repetitiveness of life  “I + action verb” o “I went” (1) o “I came” (4, 26) o “I looked” (5) o “I listened” (6) o “I said” (9, 11) o “I marked” (15) o “I thought” (19) o “I left” (25) o “I worked” (36, 37) o “I told” (41) Shows the action throughout the poem

 Anastrophe for emphasis o “But as I said it, swift there passed me by” (11) o “But glad with him, I worked as with his aid, And weary, sought at noon with him the shade” (37-38)  Repetition of “but” o “But he had gone his way, the grass all mown” (7) o “But as I said it, swift there passed me by” (11) o “But he turned first, and led my eye to look” (21) o “But from sheer morning gladness at the brim” (30) o “But glad with him, I worked as with his aid” (37)

“an isle of trees” (5) - Isolation “ went to turn the grass ” (1)– Life’s Burdens

“Finding the butterfly weed” (26) - Combination of wisdom and learning “View the leveled scene” (4)- Humans Destroying Nature

“a tall tuft of flowers” (22) – Nature, Hope “wildered butterfly” (13) - Wisdom

 "Contents. Frost, Robert A Boy's Will." Contents. Frost, Robert A Boy's Will. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept  "An Online Exhibit Presented by Special Collections at Middlebury College." Robert Frost at Bread Loaf. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept  "Robert Frost." Poets.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept

 By Amanda Arquette and Kyle Sylvester