The Mountain
The Mountain - meaning Summary
Mountain as Timeless Vision
The poem presents a concentrated vision of a mountain as a place where light, cold, and time converge. Frost paints crystalline, jewel-like imagery—snow, ribbed ice, pinnacles—that compresses seasonal detail into a single luminous scene. The landscape becomes metaphorical: flowing elements meet "infinity," and summits are described as deified and ancient. The effect is less narrative than contemplative, inviting the reader to regard the mountain as both a physical presence and a symbol of permanence, transcendence, and the quiet vastness of geological and temporal scale.
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