A Critical Appreciation of Frost’s ‘The Oven Bird’

The Oven Bird is a pessimistic sonnet. The octave seems to bring out mid- spend and how it is noncurrent its best. Whereas the sestet, which is marked by a rhyming couplet, brings a change, as rime looks toward what will come in the futurity, and how to live with a biography that is past its best. The hiss sings Loud and predicts the inevitability of mid-summer turning into fall. Gloomy descriptions are employ even though its the middle of summer and everything should be bright and cheerful, he says that leaves are onetime(a) and that for flowers/ Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. The endstop after ten, makes the detail that there are non as many flowers in summer as there are in spring, very definite and rather blunt. Even though winter is along way off, lots of personality is already past its bestThe early petal-fall is past,When pear and cherry blossoming went down in showersOn sunny days a sec overcastThe speaker constantly focuses on the shadows, although it is only a moment, so much destruction seems to happen in it. While its still mid-summer, the darn is already anticipating fall as he says and comes that other fall we put up the fall.Perhaps in this poem ice is talking about Darwin. The oven wench could be used to represent Darwin. Frost says there is a vocalist everyone has hear. Around the time Frost was writing, Darwin was teaching his theory, he was famous and everyone had heard of him. By placing loud at the beginning of the line and putting a comma butterfly after it, Frost focuses on this word, emphasising that Darwin is shouting and telling everyone about his theory. Frost then goes onto say the skirt makes the solid tree trunks hygienic again. This could possibly be Darwin enquireing all and bringing a sassy uncertainty to life. If we continue with the Darwin idea, perhaps when Frost refers to that other fall we holler the fall, he is referring to Adam and Eve and the fall of mankind. This is then followed by the bi rd saying the highway dust is overall.Read in addition Critical understanding of the poem Old Ladies Home.The highway might represent mans draw close and new scientific knowledge and how this now covers everything, nature and religion. Frost says, the bird would cease and be as other birds/ but that he knows in singing not to sing. I think this could mean that the bird is not as exuberant as other birds in spring, but he sings in mid-summer and knows the future isnt necessarily something to look forward to. With Darwins new theory, the old certainty has been collide withn away and replaced by something new and radical that makes the future unsettling.The poem finishes on an unsure note as Frost says, The question that he frames in all but words/ is what to make of a diminished thing. Frost might be saying that, although life is past its best, like summer, how can we make the most of it? This is very characteristic of Frosts poetry, with Frost leaving the reader to make their own interpretation and decide for themselves. Although the dance step of the last two lines is elegiac and diminished thing sounds very negative, Frost also asks what to make of it and this sounds more positive as though this is just a new, evoke challenge to face. The Oven Bird is also similar to Frosts other poetry because he uses nature to put across an idea. The Oven Bird is an unusual sonnet, Frost uses an old, pass judgment poetry style to express these new and bold ideas, the unconventional verse scheme also helps to emphasise these new ideas. This is another quality of Frost, to take a certain style of poetry and make it his own.