Immigrants
Immigrants - fact Summary
Published in West-running Brook
"Immigrants" was published in 1928 in Robert Frost's collection West-Running Brook. The short poem invokes the Mayflower as a symbolic guide rather than a literal ship, suggesting that the Pilgrim story functions as an ongoing cultural convoy steering American identity. Placing the poem in this late-1920s collection helps readers see Frost working with national myths during a period of consolidation after World War I and amid debates over immigration and assimilation. Knowing its publication context alerts readers to the poem’s engagement with myth and public memory.
Read Complete AnalysesNo ship of all that under sail or steam Have gathered people to us more and more But Pilgrim-manned the Mayflower in a dream Has been her anxious convoy in to shore.
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