Come in
Come in - meaning Summary
Choosing the Outer Light
Robert Frost’s "Come In" describes a speaker paused at the edge of a dark wood, hearing a thrush whose song seems to invite entry into the night. The bird’s music carries the last light of day, making the woods sound both attractive and mournful. The poem frames that invitation as a kind of temptation or call to surrender to interior darkness. The speaker refuses, choosing instead to remain outside, seeking stars and asserting a deliberate isolation from the wood’s inward pull.
Read Complete AnalysesAs I came to the edge of the woods, Thrush music — hark! Now if it was dusk outside, Inside it was dark. Too dark in the woods for a bird By sleight of wing To better its perch for the night, Though it still could sing. The last of the light of the sun That had died in the west Still lived for one song more In a thrush’s breast. Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went — Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars; I would not come in. I meant not even if asked; And I hadn’t been.
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