CHAPTER III EXPLICATION OF THE POEMS
The chapter will discuss about the description of the poems, explication is an explanation of the poem in detail, disentanglement any complexities to be
initiate in it. In sustaining the depiction of the poem, the writer presented any outlook about the poems according to literary critics.
Besides these, the paraphrase and the description about the elements of those poems also became the topic on this chapter. The writer also tried to
examine and unfold all detail in a poem that sensitive reader might consider. These might include rhythm, rhyme, imagery, tone, mood, and so on.
All poetry is written in some particular meter; that is, poems are made from a collection of lines which have a certain number of syllables, some of which are
accented receive stress and some of which are not receive no stress. We can scan a line of poetry when we mark over each word whether or it should be
stressed while one that is not to be stressed is marked - and the stressed word or syllable marked by .
A. Explication of My November Guest
My November Guest My Sorrow, when she’s here with me,
1 Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
2 Are beautiful as days can be;
3
She loves the bare, the withered tree; 4
She walks the sodden pasture lane. 5
Her pleasure will not let me stay, 6
She talks and I am fain to list: 7
She’s glad the birds are gone away, 8
She’s glad her simple worsted gray 9
Is silver now with clinging mist. 10
The desolate, deserted trees, 11
The faded earth, the heavy sky, 12
The beauties she so truly sees, 13
She thinks I have no eye for these, 14
And vexes me for reason why. 15
Not yesterday I learned to know 16
The love of bare November days 17
Before the coming of the snow, 18
But it were vain to tell her so, 19
And they are better for her praise 20
Generally in this poem Frost followed the regular rules of poetry that assumed by romantics, it is one of Frost’s poem that has clear rhyme scheme; My
November Guest. The poem it self has four stanzas; each stanza has five lines
called quintets with rhyme scheme A-B-A-A-B. The writer also sees the clear metrical that has been designed by Frost with Iambic tetra meter. There is also
alliteration in the first stanza-dark days- that giving an effect of emphasize. The
poem also say called another property to enchanting itself, it formed paradox; “Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be..” Dark days of autumn rain
thought by his November guest beautiful as days can be.
Signs for stressed syllables use And the falling or unstressed with ~ it is to make the writer easy in typing; Furthermore, the poem will be explained line by
line as follows: ~ ~ ~ ~
My Sorrow, when she’s here with me, A
1 The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent, it is shown British
accent that Frost it self is New Englanders of nine generations; Frost said that naturally English accent is fall into iambic- and he lived in country yard for most
of his times. The end of the rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed, also its a perfect rhyme in vowel when it is related to the third and fourth line is identical.
~ ~ ~ ~
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain B
2 The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the
rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. In this line Frost gives another property
to make enchantment into his poem. The property is alliteration dark days the sound of da and repeated with da again gives an impression that Frost want to
strengthen this part of his November Guest which symbolized by dark days. ~ ~ ~ ~
Are beautiful as days can be; A
3 The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the
rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed, also it’s a perfect rhyme in vowel when it is related to the first line is identical.
~ ~ ~ ~ She loves the bare, the withered tree;
A 4
The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed, also it a perfect rhyme in vowel when it
is related to the first and third line is identical. ~ ~ ~ ~
B 5
She walks the sodden pasture lane. The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the
rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. The end of the rhyme is identical with
the second line rain with lane the sound of n consonant has made its rhyme. It
becomes the end of the first stanza that forms A-B-A-A-B rhyme scheme. ~ ~ ~ ~
Her pleasure will not let me stay, A
6 The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the
rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. Something that unique in this line is the present of possessive position of ‘She’ character is shown here. Writer thinks it is
a scheme that Frost want to give to, it is a crisis that ‘She’ character is no longer
be dominant as in the previous stanza, it expresses the character ‘I’ wants to give communication to ‘She’ character. This communication then built the crisis of
theme; it is the first time the character ‘I’ being a subject, and rotates the position as shown in the previous stanza ‘I’ always be an object in the grammatical theme.
As in my and me, grammatically it shown such position mentioned.
~ ~ ~ ~ She talks and I am fain to list:
B 7
The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. In this line, character ‘She’ mentioned
by the ‘I’ character as an object again grammatically. ~ ~ ~ ~
She’s glad the birds are gone away, A
8 The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the
rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. In this line, also, character ‘She’ mentioned by the ‘I’ character as an object again grammatically. Moreover, this
line is the extension from the preceding line 7
th
line, it tells about Character ‘She” describe about her feeling. Writer can see in the 7
th
line there is double dot : as the symbol for extension will expand in the forwarder line.
~ ~ ~ ~ She’s glad her simple worsted gray
A 9
The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. In this line, character ‘She’ mentioned
by the ‘I’ character as an object again grammatically, as well. This line also as an extension from the 7
th
line, it tells about character ‘She’ when she describes something about her feeling.
~ ~ ~ ~ Is silver now with clinging mist
B 10
The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. This line correlated with the previous
line 10
th
line, it is shown how Gray synonym with silver and mist. According to Encarta Dictionary gray and silver are identical,
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both of them formed mist as the resulted end; a condition that people reach out of final frontier or something
mysterious or sadly in other stipulation. ~ ~ ~ ~
The desolate, deserted trees, A
11 `The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the
rhyme is masculine because it is stressed. Both desolate and deserted are identical in meaning; it is an enchantment from the writer when he gives repetition, writer
thinks, this repetition is strengthen to show how ‘She’ character in this poem is. Trees
become a point of view that brought by ‘I’ character. ~ ~ ~ ~
The faded earth, the heavy sky, B
12 The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the
rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. Again in this line, Frost used faded that identical with the previous words that used; gray and silver. Earth is mother for
Transcendentalist and Naturalist;
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they use mother earth as a proverb which is express main fixation in their life.
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In the United States the modern environmental movement is rooted in a 19th-century New England philosophical movement called transcendentalism, whose leaders included the poet and
essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson and the naturalist and author Henry David Thoreau. In their writings, both men expressed a reverence for the natural world, believing that humans and nature
~ ~ ~ ~ The beauties she so truly sees,
A 13
The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. In the writer sentence succession it can
be reformed as this sentence- She so truly sees the beauties-. The sentence then conveys that character ‘She’ could not see which beauty is and which is not, for
the reason that, character ‘She’ thinks to the expression that state in the earlier line such as; gray, silver, and fade as a beauty.
~ ~ ~ ~ She thinks I have no eye for these,
A 14
The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. The pronoun ‘She’ still as subject, the dominance
of story telling from Robert Frost is still handled by character ‘She’. The succession of the characters will be discussed in the fourth chapter.
~ ~ ~ ~ And vexes me for reason why.
B 15
The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. In this line, character ‘I’ shows his self
as an object-me-for the last time. All the things that told by ‘She’ character are become burden for ‘I’ character, vexes can be reformed when the subject is shown
as follow; and she vexes me for reason why. Vexes is verb for third singular
shared a divine spirit. Emerson asserted that nature was eternal and capable of recovering from mistreatment at the hands of humans. Thoreau, more protective and pessimistic, has been quoted
as saying, “Thank God, men cannot yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth”. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2007. © 1993-2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
person and there are only two characters in this poem, so, the third singular person is refer to ‘She. Vex, quoted from Encarta dictionary vexes is annoy somebody or
to make somebody upset with the unimportant matter.
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~ ~ ~ ~ Not yesterday I learned to know
A 16
The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. It is a turning point line, when character
‘I’ turn over become a subject. The sentence of the line is a past tense structurally; past time is a consciousness, conscious that something wrong when character ‘I’
listen to something inconsequential. ~ ~ ~ ~
The love of bare November days B
17 The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the
rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. The line tells contraposition that it is useless to love bare November days. November is time when snow starts to flow.
~ ~ ~ ~ Before the coming of the snow,
A 18
The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. The snow rapidly come, actually ‘I’
character gives a warn to ‘She’ character of her late maturity, bare November day is winter and winter is a late maturity that should be impinge on to her attitudes
and behaviors more mature than before. ~ ~ ~ ~
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to make somebody annoyed or slightly upset , especially over a relatively un important matter
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But it were vain to tell her so, A
19 The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the
rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. The maturity is hard to come to ‘She’ character, and all betwixt is become wasteful.
~ ~ ~ ~ And they are better for her praise
B 20
The meter in this line is tetrameter with iambic accent. The end of the
rhyme is masculine because it’s stressed. The sound of‘s’ in praise is identical with sound of‘s’ in days. It is the end of the line that ‘I’ character gives final
statement that all the things he has done are for her honor. The poem tells about his guest that has no attitude optimistically facing the
life. This is signed by dark days, she feel her life so unlucky, the situation of the dark days
also strengthen by the manner of the Guest loves to take her burden of her life alone, it is symbolized by walks the sodden pasture lane. Almost all
words in this poem represents dark side and loneliness that brought by My November Guest,
the color that bring in the poem also represented by silver. The earth also became faded, the only solution that offered by the poem is the coming
of the snow. In the Greece Mythology, Snow or winter season is the death, it is pessimistic life that described by the poem. In the end of it, the writer concludes
the poem use personification, it shown by my November guest; the guest is sorrow personified as incoming regretful woman exceedingly esteemed who walk with
him character of ‘I’.
B. Explication of a Late Walk
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