Bereft
Bereft - context Summary
Published in 1928 Collection
"Bereft" was published in 1928 in Robert Frost's collection West-Running Brook. The poem belongs to Frost's mature period and appears amid other short, contemplative pieces that often explore solitude and nature. There is no specific occasion recorded for its composition, nor a confirmed personal event tying it to Frost's life in the provided evidence. Readers should therefore situate the poem within the 1928 collection’s general concerns: meditations on loneliness, spiritual absence, and the natural world as an echoing backdrop to human feeling.
Read Complete AnalysesWhere had I heard this wind before Change like this to a deeper roar? What would it take my standing there for, Holding open a restive door, Looking down hill to a frothy shore? Summer was past and the day was past. Sombre clouds in the west were massed. Out on the porch's sagging floor, Leaves got up in a coil and hissed, Blindly struck at my knee and missed. Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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