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Poetry Of Robert Frost: Poems From A Witness Tree

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Frost, Robert

Frost, Robert
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Poems From A Witness Tree

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The speaker approaches the woods and hears from inside the song of a
thrush. He says that although it is only dusk where he is standing, it is
already dark inside the forest. He says that it is too dark for the bird to
find a better perch on which to spend the night. All it can do is sing. In
stanza three, the speaker compares the last rays of the sun to the thrush's
song. In stanza four, he speaks of the "pillared dark" and says that the
thrush's song could be a call to come into the woods and "lament." In stanza

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