Robert Frost's "Two Tramps In Mud Time"
Beginning of paper
On the surface, "Two Tramps in Mud Time" seems to display Robert Frost's narrow
individualism. The poem, upon first reading it, seems incongruent, with some of
the stanzas having no apparent connection to the whole poem. The poem as a
whole also does not appear to have a single definable theme. ....
Middle of paper
.... to strike for the
common good/That day, giving a loose to my soul,/I spent on the unimportant
wood." The narrator refers to releasing his suppressed anger not upon evils
that threaten "the common good", but upon the "unimportant wood". The appparent
arrogance of the narrator is revealed as well by his reference to himself as a
Herculean figure standing not alongside nature, but over it: "The grip on earth
of outspread feet,/The life of muscles rocking soft/And smooth and moist in
ve ....
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Word count: 491
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
