Storm Fear
Storm Fear - context Summary
Published 1920 in New Hampshire
Published in 1920 in the collection New Hampshire, "Storm Fear" situates its speaker in a small household beset by a winter storm and a sense of encroaching helplessness. The poem reflects Frost’s recurring rural-New England concerns: isolation, the tenuousness of domestic security, and practical struggle against nature. Its compressed narrative voice measures physical resources and emotional resolve—counting "Two and a child"—and registers doubt about surviving unaided. Knowing its publication and collection helps readers place the poem within Frost’s sustained exploration of community, weather, and human endurance.
Read Complete AnalysesWhen the wind works against us in the dark, And pelts with snow The lowest chamber window on the east, And whispers with a sort of stifled bark, The beast, ‘Come out! Come out!’- It costs no inward struggle not to go, Ah, no! I count our strength, Two and a child, Those of us not asleep subdued to mark How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length,- How drifts are piled, Dooryard and road ungraded, Till even the comforting barn grows far away And my heart owns a doubt Whether ’tis in us to arise with day And save ourselves unaided.
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