Going for Water - Robert Frost.

Going For Water

Robert Frost -American poet.

New England is his native place.

His love of nature is simple and

meaningful.

He talks about man's search for 

water  and the solution is in nature.

Gnomes- dwarfs, loth- dislike,hate  

ere-before, soon- at once, presently

Blade- river water reflecting the

moonlight seems like the silverblade

of the sword.

The well was dry beside the door,

And so we went with pail and can

It describes the basic problem of man in urban areas.His well was dry.

so he and his friends went to the

nearby woods with a pail and can

in search of water.

Across the fields behind the house

To seek the brook if still it ran;

They knew for sure there was 

a brook in the woods and they

went to find out if it was still  there.

and had water in that.

Not loth to have excuse to go,

Because the autumn eve was fair

(Though chill), because the fields were ours,

It was chill autumn evening. It was cool and inviting.They also wanted to

escape the hot afternoon and wanted to have fun.

And by the brook our woods were there.

It was a change from the routine.

It offered them ,the woods, as a

shelter from the open farm.They

knew that there must be the brook 

there because they had visited the

woods many a time.

We ran as if to meet the moon

That slowly dawned behind the trees,

They ran and they were keeping a

race with the moon.It was evening a

and the sun was setting and the moon was visible  in between the tall 

trees.

The barren boughs without the leaves,

Without the birds, without the breeze.

Because it was autumn, the trees were bare without the leaves and no birds on them.The woods were silent  and no breeze blowing.

But once within the wood, we paused

Like gnomes that hid us from the moon,

When they entered the woods, they hid behind the trees like gnomes the supernatural things.The woods also seemed to hide the playful boys from the moon.

Ready to run to hiding new

With laughter when she found us soon.

Their laughter filled the woods and the silence was broken.They heard the  flowing running water in the brook.They were of the thought that

the brook was eager to meet them.that is she found us soon.

Each laid on other a staying hand

Each one was catching the other's hand and to go carefully.

To listen ere we dared to look,

They went with more caution and wanted to listen the flow of the water and to be sure before they could sight the brook-their treasure.

And in the hush we joined to make

We heard, we knew we heard the brook.

In the hush/in the silence  the boys  

wanted to make sure the presence 

of the brook and it seemed they heard it.They wanted to be certain about it,

They heard it's flow .

A note as from a single place,

A slender tinkling fall that made

Now drops that floated on the pool

Like pearls, and now a silver blade. 

They all had keen sense of hearing.

They heard only its flow.

They knew it was there,

The tinkling fall of drops from a branch like pearls into the waters of the brook made them realize the brook was somewhere very near.

The drop of  the water falling on the water below made ripples and the boys saw the moonlight reflecting on them like the silver blade of a sword.

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