Introduction
'Tree at My Window" is one of the well-known poems in the volume of poems titled West Running Brook published in 1928. The volume's title is significant in America, rivers usually run east to fall into the Atlantic Ocean. But the poet finds a revolutionary element in the west-running river. He perhaps identifies his revolutionary or out-of-the-way spirit with the west-running brook. Here in this article, we are going to know all about Tree at My Window by Robert Frost. In this poem, we will talk about the
Critical Appreciation of Tree at My Window, a summary of this poem. Themes of this poem and many more.
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| Critical Appreciation of Tree at My Window |
Summary of Tree at My Window
The poet addresses a tree outside his bedroom window. He closes his window at night, but he asserts that there will never be a curtain between himself and the tree. The tree seems to be a "vague dream-head” lifted out of the ground. The babbling (talking aloud) of the tree cannot all be wise. But the poet has seen it "taken and tossed", that is, blown through and swayed by strong winds. The tree might have also seen the poet whelmed by dreams in his sleep, so much that he was almost lost. Fate had her imagination about her. She determined that the tree be concerned with the outer weather, and the poet with the inner weather: warring states of mind.
The important point or theme of the poem
The poet has declared his essential difference, and for that matter, every man's difference with the objects of nature, though some superficial similarity exists. A natural object is adversely affected by the outer factors only, but a human being is affected both by outer and inner factors.
Critical Appreciation of Tree at My Window
The poem "Tree at My Window" is a well-known poem of Frost.it was published in his volume of poems titled "West-Running Brooke in 1928
The poet addresses a tree outside his bedroom window. He asserts that there will be no curtain between himself and the tree even though he shuts the window at night. The tree looks like a "vague dream head lifted out of the ground" The sounds made by the tree's movement seem to be the meaningless babbling of a baby. It is "taken and tossed" by strong or stormy winds. The tree might have also seen the poet taken and tossed by dreams, and overpowered, and almost lost. Fate decided that the tree be concerned with the outer weather, and the poet with the inner
Weather.
Metaphorical Meaning
On a metaphorical level, the speaker of the poem stands for all men and the tree stands for all objects of Nature. The tree is only affected by the outer weather, and man is affected both by the external circumstances of life and by the internal conditions of mind-his thoughts, and imaginations, his worries and anxieties, his hopes and frustrations. So, a human being has some similarities and some dissimilarities with the objects of Nature. From the poet's point
of view, represented through the voice of the speaker, man is apparently a part of Nature, but unlike other objects, man has an inner life that is perhaps more powerful than his outer life.
Romanticism
One thing is very clear here; whereas the English Romantics dealt mainly with Nature, and thought Natural objects to be all beneficial for human beings, Frost, though he also dealt with natural objects, differed from them in thinking that man was an isolated being set apart from all
other objects of Nature.
Poem Structure
The poem consists of four stanzas, each of them being of four lines. The meter is predominantly iambic tetrameter with some variations, for the first 3 lines of each stanza, and iambic trimeter with some variations for the fourth line of each stanza.
Trée at/ my/ win/dow,/ win/dow/trée,
My sash/ is lowered/ when night comes on/
The lines are mainly in iambic tetrameter with a variation in the first foot of the first line which is a trochee.
Between/ you and/mé.
This is the last fourth line of the first stanza. It has an irregular meter. The first foot is the iambic, the second a trochee, and the third acatalectic. In this way, prosodic features are very irregular.
Rhetorical devices like personification, symbol, chiasmus, and antithesis, etc. occur of the sound devices, dissonance predominates. The tree has been personified as a living being, and
the speaker symbolizes all humanity, and dissonance emphasizes the difference between a tree and a human being. All these devices make the poem a successful one. They corroborate the main theme of the poem.
Conclusion
That was all about the Critical Appreciation of Tree at My Window. This is one of the most popular poems in the present time also by an American poet. I hope you now know all about this poem with a summary, Critical Appreciation, themes, and some more. Thanks for reading from us.
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