on a tree falllen across the road analysis

I have read the poem ‘On a Tree Fallen across the Road’ by Robert Frost. After reading his poem, I’ve found that this is a life story poem because it tells us about the poet’s life journey.

These poems have some poetic devices that make this poem more beautiful. One of it is imagery. Imagery is the words or phrases that request to any sense or any combination of senses. In this poem, it can be seen very clearly in stanza two in line two which is “she likes to halt us on a runner tracks” which make us to imagine that mother nature is underestimate the poet and the people around him. The next poetic device is symbol. Symbol is an item in a literary work that means more than itself, which stand for itself. This is seen very clearly in this poem in stanza two in last line which is “debating what to do without an ax” where ax is refer to our effort in daily lives. There are also hyperboles which are a numeral of speech which involve overstatement. This is seen obviously in stanza three in last line which is “not though we have to seize earth by the pole.

Theme is the main idea of literary work which is preoccupied from the details of language, personality, and action in form of generalization. It makes us to understand better about what is the writer or the poet want to say in his work. In this poem, the theme that the poet carries out is overcoming obstacle. The poet is trying to say to the reader that life has a lot of obstacles that the readers have to overcome with so that they can move forward to achieve what they want in their life but they must overcome the obstacle by the purpose of strength and creativity to handle the obstacle.

Issues and concern that the poet are trying to raise is how to overcoming the problem in life. In life, there is a lot of problem that makes our journey looks difficult and sometimes we give up to that. Actually we cannot give up to the problem but we have to face it and handle the problem wisely and carefully as we don’t want to add more problems in life. This is to make sure that we can accomplish the goal of what we wish for in our life.

Tone and mood is the unspoken attitude of a poet puts towards the poem. It makes the reader to feel what the poet feel when the poet expresses their feeling in the poem. In this poem, the tone and mood that the poem is trying to express to the reader is optimistic as although there are a lot of obstacle in life but the poet are optimistic to continue his journey and face the obstacle in front of him.

Based on the analysis that I give to this poem, I think that the poet wants to share something of what he is trying to state and express his emotion in this poem to the reader.