![]() One flight out sideways would have undeceived him. The white one in his tail like one who takes He thought that I was after him for a feather. Who was so foolish as to think what he thought. To put a tree between us when he lighted, This surface is a busy one, as when the speaker meets the bird:Ī small bird flew before me. But "The Wood-Pile" remains stubbornly unyielding to any attempt at ransacking it for a meaning not evidently on the surface. And the reader looks up from the text, wonders if he has missed something, perhaps goes back and reads it again to see if he can catch some meaning which has eluded him. With a reflection about whoever it was who left it there, "far from a useful fireplace," the poem concludes. The pile is described so as to bring out the fact that it has been around for some time. He notes a bird in front of him and spends some time musing on what the bird must be thinking, then sees it settle behind a pile of wood. ![]() A man out walking in a frozen swamp decides to turn back, then decides instead to go farther and see what will happen. ![]() ![]() In "The Wood-Pile," for example, almost nothing happens at all its story, its achieved idea or wisdom, the whole air with which it carries itself, is quite unmemorable. Unlike poems such as "Home Burial" and "A Servant to Servants," which are inclined toward the tragic or the pathetic, nothing "terrible" happens in the personal narratives, nor does some ominous secret lie behind them. The "persona" narratives from the book - "Mending Wall," "After Apple-Picking," and "The Wood-Pile" - also strive for inclusiveness although they are spoken throughout by a voice we are tempted to call "Frost." This voice has no particular back-country identity, nor is it obsessed or limited in its point of view it seems rather to be exploring nature, other people, ideas, ways of saying things, for the sheer entertainment they can provide. ![]()
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