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
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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
A late walk is the third poem that will be explicated in this paper and it has perfect rhyme in every stanza. The second and the fourth line of every stanza
correlated, it is formed in trimeter metrical pattern and has masculine ending, otherwise the first and the third line in tetrameter metrical pattern.
The lyric of the poem is ballad style lyric, with the rhyme scheme A-B-C- B-, A Late Walk is a hope from the character of the poem going back, become so
restless in the previous life, the character of the poem needs go up the mowing field and the mowing field represents the late walk.
The poem it self has sixteen lines and divided into four stanzas, it is very flowing poem, the impression of the poem giving an affect that the poem is very
quite calm in the ballad tetra meter and trimeter pattern. One of the reasons Frost called as a nature poet;
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almost of his works tell about nature, even though there is a little presence of character. Likewise of this
poem, Frost uses only a little presence of the character. From the four stanzas, Frost mentioned ‘I’ four times, each stanza ‘I’ mentioned once. In the first stanza
existed in the first line, in the second stanza, ‘I’ placed in the fifth line, in the third stanza ‘I’ existed in the eleventh line and in the last stanza ‘I’ placed in the
thirteenth lines. Even despite the fact that ‘I’ mentioned four time, thematically the poem
tells about nature more to a large extent than ‘I’. As naturalist Frost believes that
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Frost himself denied that he is a nature poet, “ I am not a nature poet, There is almost person in my poems.”
But almost of his works use nature imagery. His grasps and understanding of natural fact is well recognized, this is why Frost called the nature poet. Quoted from
www.Frostfriendsorg.com
nature and human share their spirit, each needs the other. For further detail, let’s see the explication below:
~ ~ ~ ~ When I go up through the mowing field
A 1
The accent is iambic and the meter is tetrameter, the last syllable is stressed called masculine accent. It is the first stanza that has two different meters,
first and third is tetrameter otherwise the second and the fourth is dimeter. Here the ‘I’ character going back to the mowing field, as the symbolization that he
returned the place that in the end of age. Field usually has period of time, begin with plantation to the harvest time, mowing is the period when the farmer take
their benefit from their field, it is the time before harvest. From this symbolization, Frost emphasized that A Late Walk represented one of it by go up
to the mowing field. ~ ~ ~
The headless aftermath, B
2 The accent is still iambic when the meter turns out to be trimeter and the
ending is still masculine. Aftermath is an effect that it is hopeless going back to the place or time when something look like too late,
~ ~ ~ ~ Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew,
C 3
The accent is iambic and the meter is tetrameter, the last syllable is stressed called masculine accent, heavy dew
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here is the air condensation in the
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Dew, water that condenses on cool objects from the water vapor in warm air, particularly the condensation formed during cool nights in warm seasons of the year. Air at a given temperature
can contain only a certain amount of water vapor. This amount increases as the temperature rises
after warm season which represents the lumber that possessed by ‘I’ facing his life, his psychological predicament take him to the how he can see his future, In
the next line heavy dew similarly represent like it has closed the garden path. ~ ~ ~
Half closes the garden path. B
4 The accent is iambic and the meter is trimeter, the last syllable is stressed
called masculine accent, garden path is the way that usually farmer trough from and to work field. It placed between house and the field, garden path is the place
where the flower blossoms give fragrance to whom passed by, it gives happy feeling habitually, but in contrary, the garden path seems half closed by the heavy
dew or psychological character side. ~ ~ ~ ~
And when I come to the garden ground, A
5 The accent is iambic and the meter is tetrameter, the last syllable is
stressed called masculine accent, in this second stanza, frost slightly emphasizes the garden path with garden ground, garden path actually is not closed for the
reason that ‘I’ can reach garden ground. It tells us that what seem to be is not equivalent with what is real.
~ ~ ~ The whir of sober birds
B 6
and decreases as the temperature falls. In the evening after a warm day, air that is nearly saturated with vapor cools and drops below the temperature at which it is fully saturated. As the air cools
further, the excess water vapor condenses on any surface, such as a blade of grass or a windowpane. In air containing a given amount of water vapor, the temperature at which dew
begins to form is known as the dew point. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2007. © 1993-2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
The accent is iambic and the meter is trimeter, the last syllable is stressed called masculine accent, the whir of sober birds phrase attracts the writer
responses that it is very serious problem that have by the character. Sober birds
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become a symbol with the aim of his psychological matter. The whir formed sounds that remind ‘I’ to be more seriously facing the life of his period of time
that seem too late. ~ ~ ~ ~
Up from the tangle of withered weeds C
7 The accent is iambic and the meter is tetrameter, the last syllable is
stressed called masculine accent, the tangle of withered weeds is a metaphor of the situation felt by ‘I’, it is a process of dying, become useless and faded away, ‘I’
has felt the situation as same as the bush that dried away. ~ ~ ~
Is sadder than any words. B
8 The accent is iambic and the meter is trimeter, the last syllable is stressed
called masculine accent, in the previous line eight line told that the situation is tangle into withered weeds symbolizes a late walk, in this line such situation
strengthened by sadder than any words. But all of it is still only ‘I’ feeling. ~ ~ ~ ~
A tree beside the wall stands bare, A
9 The accent is iambic and the meter is tetrameter, the last syllable is
stressed called masculine accent, stands bare again symbolize the wasteful feeling of ‘I’ when it stands beside the wall which is a symbolization of establishment.
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In Mesopotamian mythology and art, Sober birds describes as Elam that hanging on the tree as reminder. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2007. © 1993-2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Wall is built as symbol of civilization, the establish form and made by human, wall represents human civilization achievement.
~ ~ ~ But a leaf that lingered brown,
B 10
The accent is iambic and the meter is trimeter, the last syllable is stressed called masculine accent, leaf that lingered brown is a metaphor of a late walk, it is
the situation when something is on the edge of the horn. ~ ~ ~
Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought, C
11 The accent is iambic and the meter is tetrameter, the last syllable is
stressed called masculine accent, ‘I’ realize that all disturbing is only a thought that perhaps will not be same with the reality.
~ ~ ~ Comes softly rattling down.
B 12
The accent is iambic and the meter is trimeter, the last syllable is stressed called masculine accent, rattling down is consciousness take in charge slowly, that
something to be change, it’s useless thinks about something wasteful. ~ ~ ~ ~
I end not far from my going forth 13
The accent is iambic and the meter is tetrameter, the last syllable is stressed called masculine accent, I end not far from my going forth is the
consciousness turning point.
~ ~ ~ By picking the faded blue
14 The accent is iambic and the meter is trimeter, the last syllable is stressed
called masculine accent, by picking the faded blue is positive thinking, take something useful in the end of period even though it’s a tiny things.
~ ~ ~ ~ Of the last remaining aster flower
15 The accent is iambic and the meter is tetrameter, the last syllable is
stressed called masculine accent, aster flower is something can be picked from the last remain.
~ ~ ~ To carry again to you
16 The accent is iambic and the meter is trimeter, the last syllable is stressed
called masculine accent, to carry again to you is all the way ‘I’ had took should not be pessimistic, always be positive thinking and fight for last remain blood.
A symbolization of A Late Walk is revealed in the tenth and twelfth line, But a leaf that lingered brown
and comes softly rattling down. A late walk means that some one going back in the gray, when the old time comes everything seems
like too late to do something. The blue aster had become fade away. The phrases lingered brown
and rattling down are symbolization for the autumn, a season summer and winter, the season before a death season; for the reason that winter is
a death.
The aftermath is identical with path, birds identical with words, Brown identical with down, Blue identical with you, all of these correlated words placed
in trimeter. In the fifteen lines Frost tries to give fascination with alliteration, aster flower
; it is give an affect and an emphasize that it is very resting and calm poem, to carry again to you
symbolized every walk I took, every thing I need is being back to you even though it seems too late.
CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS FIGURES OF SPEECH
