Robert Frost The Silken Tent

The Silken Tent by Robert Frost: Summary and Analysis

In the verse form The Silken Tent the poet is comparing the tent with the woman whom the poet loved. The summertime breeze stirs the tent and has dried the dew. When the dew has dried, the tent becomes tight. And all its ropes besides take become loose and the ropes move easily and gently.

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Similarly, when the woman is free from her domestic duties, she freely goes here and at that place. The cedar pole in the middle has erected the tent and the pole is the symbol of the sureness of the soul. Similar the supporting pole of the tent, her soul is reliable. As the tent is tied with many ropes, she is also bound with ties of honey and thought. As summer air makes the tent feel that it is spring, and then her marriage besides reminds her that she is bound to someone. In the verse form bondage means the condition of being under some ability or influence. It refers to her marriage vows and her husband. Both of them are bound by religious and social and legal obligations.

The Silken Tent is a dear verse form Frost wrote for Morrison is vividly sensual and suggests how she balanced her love obligations. A seamless one-sentence sonnet the poem embodies Morrison "as in a field a silken tent" which is stirred past summer cakewalk and sways, jump not by a "single cord" but "loosely bound and by endless silken ties of love and idea. Though the poem may simply signify Morrison'south by and large rich appointment with the world, it may also represent her involvement in numerous dear diplomacy; the "capriciousness of summer air", her cheerful promiscuity, the "slightest chains" her apparently unconfined marriage.

The poet conveys the sense of woman's character that she is involved in numerous love affairs. She is capricious like the summer air. She is cheerfully promiscuous. She is apparently unconfined to her marriage. She is unobtrusively stiff and sure of what she does. Her honey and thoughtfulness for others and her own happiness shines clearly. The Silken Tent is an immense metaphor, comparing woman and tent in a multitude of ways. Relating this sonnet we can quote Frost's remark, "I prefer the synecdoche in poetry, that figure of speech in which nosotros use a part for a whole."

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