THE well was dry beside the door,
And so we went with pail and can
Across the fields behind the house
To seek the brook if still it ran;
Not loth to have excuse to go,
Because the autumn eve was fair
(Though chill), because the fields were ours,
And by the brook our woods were there.
We ran as if to meet the moon
That slowly dawned behind the trees,
The barren boughs without the leaves,
Without the birds, without the breeze.
But once within the wood, we paused
Like gnomes that hid us from the moon,
Ready to run to hiding new
With laughter when she found us soon.
Each laid on other a staying hand
To listen ere we dared to look,
And in the hush we joined to make
We heard, we knew we heard the brook.
A note as from a single place,
A slender tinkling fall that made
Now drops that floated on the pool
Like pearls, and now a silver blade.
From the thirty one poems by Robert Frost, I decided to choose this one because it is charged of visual imagery. It uses other literary devices such as auditory imagery, metaphors, a hyperbole, figure of speech, etc. However, what mesmerized me were the vivid images this poem creates in the reader mind. Some examples of visual imagery would be on this part of the poem:
“We ran as if to meet the moon
That slowly dawned behind the trees,
The barren boughs without the leaves,
Without the birds, without the breeze.”
I can clearly imagine two young people running excitedly very early in the morning through the bared and quiet woods in search of a brook. I like how the author uses and describes nature within the story, specially the brook. On the last line where it says, “Like pearls, and now a silver blade,” I can visualize a long and shiny silver silhouette of a brook. Similarly, what I liked about this poem is how the author teaches us how to appreciate the beauty of nature and how we can turn simple and ordinary things into extraordinary things, just like the two young people who enjoyed going for water at the brook making it an unique moment.
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