I chose to explicate the poem "Reluctance" by Robert Frost.
Frost, Robert. "Reluctance." Ketzle. 06 September 2005. New Orleans Missing Persons List. 12 Feb 2008 http://www.ketzle.com/frost/.
"Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?"
The speaker in the poem seems reluctant to accept the norms of conventional behavior. He declares he will go against the grain, and follow his own intuition. While saying this however, he proclaims he will "...bow and accept the end/ of a love" (23-24) which appears to be the speaker saying he is coming to terms with the conclusion of a personal relationship.This poem is also about dead ends, and dead hopes, and the speakers way of dealing with them. This is mirrored in lines 21 and 22 when he says, "To go with the drift of thing/To yield with a grace to reason ". The only distinct rhyme scheme I could detect is on the repetition of b lines.
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This poem is certainely about a person struggling to find a comfortable zone in his/her life. Frost amazingly ties in the theme of nature vs. nurture. The speaker is struggling with this because he/she wants to go in their own direction, but somewhere inside, he/she wants to follow the norms, such as falling in love, and being loved.I can also see signs of dead ends.
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