To the Thawing Wind
To the Thawing Wind - fact Summary
First Printed in a Boy's Will
This short poem appears in Robert Frost's early collection A Boy's Will. Knowing its placement there situates the poem within Frost's formative period, when he was establishing rural, seasonal themes and a conversational voice. Addressed to the southwesterly wind, the speaker urges a force of thaw and disorder that will end winter’s hold and jolt the poet out of his snug study. The poem’s energy and domestic imagery reflect Frost’s interest, at this stage, in intimate encounters with nature that provoke change rather than offer consolation.
Read Complete AnalysesCome with rain. O loud Southwester! Bring the singer, bring the nester; Give the buried flower a dream; Make the settled snowbank steam; Find the brown beneath the white; But whate’er you do tonight, Bath my window, make it flow, Melt it as the ice will go; Melt the glass and leave the sticks Like a hermit’s crucifix; Burst into my narrow stall; Swing the picture on the wall; Run the rattling pages o’er; Scatter poems on the floor; Turn the poet out of door.
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