The Country
This poem has country images all over the place. Frost is the king of rural New England imagery, and it serves not just to create a setting, but a mood. We have pastoral, semi-industrial, and...
Sensory Imagery
A major piece of this poem is sensory—that is, what did this experience look like? What did it sound like? We transition from a pastoral (but still industrial) country scene to a grim bedside dea...
The Saw
A major character in the poem is the saw—no, not the one from Saw V. Frost doesn't exactly give the saw agency, but it does appear as more of a character than you might think. You could read the...