Narrative+Poetry+--+Frost

Snow Evening Journal -- Write a short paragraph. The only rule is that your inferences must have some defensible basis in the actual words of the poem. In this paragraph, include today's sentence pattern.
 * imagine the circumstances that have brought the speaker to this place in the wood
 * speculate on what it is that compels him to stop on so cold and dark a night
 * speculate on the nature of the promises the speaker has made
 * or write about the speaker's relationship to the person whose woods these are.

[|Birches] [|Out, Out --] [|Mending Wall] [|Runaway] [|The Woodpile]


 * Journal entry #2:** Write your own narrative extending or revealing hidden aspects of the story told in your assigned poem. Your stories should be based upon the facts and inferences you found in the group exercise; the stories should not contradict those facts and inferences, but may stretch them a bit. You might want to use the following questions as starting points, but do not have to.


 * In "The Runaway," who has left a young horse to stray in snowstorm on a mountainside?
 * In "Mending Wall," does the poem's speaker get along his neighbor?
 * In "The Wood Pile," where is the person who left a the mysterious pile of wood "to warm the frozen swamp"?
 * In "Birches," what do we learn about the speaker's childhood?
 * In "Out, Out," does the speaker think that the accident could have been prevented?