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Frost's "The black cottage." (Robert Frost)
From: The Explicator
Date: 19960101
Author:Levay, John
Robert Frost's poem "The black cottage" could be associated with several things. It may symbolize the black box that records flight data of a plane, a Victorian memorabilia box, a black coffin or the poem's old lady's body. One reading may take the old lady to be the spirit of America and the black cottage is her body as well as her bier. The rest of the images, the cherry tree, the Gettysburg hero-husband's portrait and the other mementoes in the cottages then take a historical significance which support the central image.
The unadorned black cottage, in Robert Frost's poem of the same ...
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