An Analysis of Frosts Poem Once by the Pacific :: Once by the Pacific Essays

An Analysis of Frosts Poem Once by the Pacific Although Once by the Pacific is not one of Frosts nearly commercial poems, that does not mean that it is not one of his best. It appears quite obvious to me by one read through of the poem that it has an apocalyptic al-Qaida to it. Frost uses the first four sucks of the poem to give us a mental image of how powerful the ocean peeing is The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others coming in, And design of doing something to the shore That water never did to land before. We imagine water crashing bundle upon the shore line wave upon wave, getting bigger and bigger as they continue. Frost personifies the water in line 3 by bounteous us the idea that the water has an actual mind and can do as it wishes. That we are at the mercy of the ocean as it stands at that place in its threatening tone and demands respect from us. I think that line 4 is ironic because if we look at biblical history, water has cover the entire earth before (Genesis 717-24). Yet Frost approaches this as if it is a new idea, perhaps because we have a hard metre comprehending such an unimaginable occurrence as the Great Flood. The next 3 lines use the image of the clouds in the sky concealing what is to come The clouds were small(a) and hairy in the skies, Like locks blown forward in the flare of eyes. You could not tell and yet it looked as if .