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•    He hears a ery, but 'not to cali me back or say goodbye'.

•    Sees a clock:

"One luminary clock against the sky proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right" -out of phase, out of sync, out of time, no correlation between motions, your life and official, public schema.

Frost is aware that the most devastated and desolate sites are on the inside.

“Deserted places"

•    the mobility, the acceleration, of the piece Is initially striking; there is no stability

•    the woods seem to have taken over entlrely

•    Frost depiction of emptiness as whiteness

•    his closing tonę is splendld, llke a child with his back against the wali: "They cannot scare me"

•    true devastation and emptiness are on the inside: here is the view of the human soul that is supremely inhospitable

•    there is also a strange kind of pride, as if the human condition could match the horrors of naturę any day of the year

Frost tries to go past this "nothingness" on the inside of people and set human sights heroically, resolutely on the natural scene.

"The Wood Pile"

•    The speaker has no direction, no plan.

•    The story is of the human lost in the hostile woods.

•    Evocation of the bird's vanity, its error in thinking that the natural world is self-related. We think the world responds to our picture, our safety, our human condition; whereas, in fact, is indifferent.

•    The woodpile - is the finite, unsymbolic world; it’s the world of things.

•    The woodpile signals an abandoned human project, the woodpile has been cut several years back and still exists here, it was cut to bum in a fireplace.

Naturę seems to have taken over, to have proven the futility of human doing.

•    The speaker muses about motivatlon. Why would one abandon this woodpile and go on to "fresh tasks"? Is it a reference to poetry?

•    The brilliant and enigmatic finał notation causes us to reconsider our notion of utility.

•    Is this a triumph of human achievement after all? Does all human labour have unforessen real conseguences?

"Birches”

•    The boy's gamę with the birches, symbolizes rites of passage.

•    Ascending 'toward' heaven, moving toward flight and release, an ideał education for the poet.

•    Fine attempt to possess both heaven and earth, to rise and fali.

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