10-29-2016, 09:36 PM
Frost is all about using meter to make it sound like people are talking. (Some people think iambic pentameter stuff in particular mimics vocal patterns or something.)
I mean let's be honest "in the offing there" is really kind of redundant ( in the offing means the same thing). The extra stressed syllable may make it sound more natural. I guess people sort of have speech patterns that are sort of rhythmic. Plus, people sometimes add in unnecessary words.
Frost also does some metaphysical stuff he combines with his type of conversational language: with autumnal apples like dropping in slow motion, cracking the dome of heaven with a boy (whose possibly very horny) swinging on birch trees, various paths of life and the people coming together to build walls.
The guy's all out bright eyed and bushy tailed and staring wide eyed at the great unknown. Maybe not so bushy tailed if you really look into it though.
I mean let's be honest "in the offing there" is really kind of redundant ( in the offing means the same thing). The extra stressed syllable may make it sound more natural. I guess people sort of have speech patterns that are sort of rhythmic. Plus, people sometimes add in unnecessary words.
Frost also does some metaphysical stuff he combines with his type of conversational language: with autumnal apples like dropping in slow motion, cracking the dome of heaven with a boy (whose possibly very horny) swinging on birch trees, various paths of life and the people coming together to build walls.
The guy's all out bright eyed and bushy tailed and staring wide eyed at the great unknown. Maybe not so bushy tailed if you really look into it though.