An Old Mans Winter Night
His icicles along the wall to keep.
An old mans winter night. Was the lamp tilted near them in his hand. Because of his age he does not remember why he is in the house or even his identity but he maintains his presence against the grueling winter outside. What kept him from remembering what it was. The poem begins with the speaker stating that there is an old man in an empty house.
From the outside it is pressed by the winter darkness. An old mans winter night by robert frost speaks on the solitary life of an old forgetful man who at once battles and enjoys the darkness of winter. All out of doors looked darkly in at him through the thin frost almost in separate stars. The log that shifted with a jolt.
Once in the stove disturbed him and he shifted and eased his heavy breathing but still slept. Perhaps the most haunting poem in mountain interval is an old mans winter night a poem about an old man dying in the wintry climate of new england and alone. Robert frost 1874 1963. An old mans winter night.
One aged man one man cant keep a house a farm a countryside or if he can its thus he does it of a winter night. Poems summary and analysis of an old mans winter night 1916 an old man stands alone in his house in the middle of winter. Through the thin frost almost in separate stars that gathers on the pane in empty rooms. Age has rendered him unaware of why he is in the house or even what his identity is but he still persists.
All out of doors looked darkly in at him.