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The death of hired Man by Robert Frost

Poets usually use various kinds of literary devices in conveying the theme of their poems.

Frost in his poem, Death of a Hired Man illustrate how in life, it is important to forgive people

and accept who they are before it is too late. The poem is about a man and his wife, who Frost

turn into an ordinary debate in regards to different aspects of our lives that mirror our

experiences. Frost uses the wife to represent love, sympathy, emotion, and imagination, which

view human beings through emotions and not reason. The man, on the contrary, symbolizes

respect, value, input, which can simply be generalized as being practical, rational and utilitarian

aspects of life.

By incorporating these elements in the poem through the characters, Frost dramatically

creates a natural setting in which the outer world in one way or another corresponds to the inner

affairs of the poem. For instance, the appearance of the moon symbolizes sympathy and love in

Warren's mind. On the other hand, Mary's sympathy for Silas is symbolized by the moonlight

that falls on her lap shortly afterward, giving the reader a clue of the emotional tone of the poem

as she declares that Silas has come to die. Frost employs these emotional expressions that blend

with philosophical meanings such as those made by Mary when she describes a home as "the

place where when you have to go, they will take you in" (Frost 23). This is statement acts as the
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pinnacle of the entire poem, especially in regards to how the countryside might have been

viewed at the time.

However, the key cycle in life that Frost attempted to illustrate to the reader was that, just

the way Mary accepted Silas back into their home, Warren, her husband, should have also done

the same before he lost the chance to, particular, given the way Silas was about to die (Marcus

25). The reader is, therefore, able to comprehend what Frost is saying, that we need to forgive

and accept those around us before it is too late since we never know if we could find another

opportunity do so.
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Work Cited

Frost, Robert. "The death of the hired man." Academic Medicine 75.8 (2000): 823.

Marcus, Mordecai. The poems of Robert Frost: an explication. GK Hall, 1991.