Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Robert Frost's poem "Ghost House?"?

The narrator of the poem is himself a ghost who inhabits a ruined cottage, or more correctly the cellar walls, the only part that remains from what once was a home. The road is 'disused and forgotten' because the cottage, fallen to ruins, has been abandoned, its only inhabitants the narrator and other ghosts, who find companionship in the others who haunt the desolate place. We learn there is also a graveyard nearby, probably the family plot, whose 'stones out under the low-limbed tree / Doubtless bear names that the mosses mar." It does indeed paint a vivid, and sad, picture, but there is nothing too complicated in this decidedly 'atmospheric' piece.

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