The Tuft of Flowers Analysis

A cliché in cooking is that folks eat with their eyes first. In other words, they take in how their food looks first, before diving in to taste it. The same could be said of poetry. Readers, of co...

The Lawnmower Man is a cheesy '90s sci-fi flick, but it's also a handy nickname for our speaker. Actually, this guy is one of two lawnmower men. He's basically the sweeper (or turner-over), while t...

Imagine, if you will, a freshly-mown country field. Grass is lying all over the place in ragtag piles, still wet from the morning dew. There, smack in the middle of it all, stands our speaker. That...

An echo is a pretty lonely sound, as sounds go. Think about it: the only way to hear an echo is if you're in a big empty space (with some sort of distant walls or ceiling, of course). In this poem,...

As a poet, Robert Frost was not all that much for tricky titles. "The Road Not Taken" is about, well, a road that's…not taken. Similarly, "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" features a speaker...

The poetry of Robert Frost is so famous by now that it's pretty easy to pick out of a line-up. Does the poem have a rural setting, probably somewhere in New England, like "Stopping By Woods on a Sn...

It helps to know what a scythe and a whetstone is, but there aren't too many challenges to this poem. Once you get your head around the fact that people used cut their grass by hand, Frost's langua...

Even though he lived in Old England at the time, Frost was a big fan of New England. He called New Hampshire "one of the two best states in the Union" and claimed that Vermont was the other one. (S...

Our speaker spends his time with a butterfly, some cut grass, and an imaginary mower. As much as this poem is about connecting to others, it is totally G-rated.