Literary Themes In Robert Frost's Going For Water

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By Robert Frost This poem, "Going for Water", was written by Robert Frost. Robert is one of the world famous American poets known to man. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century. Though he never graduated from college, Frost received over 40 honorary degrees. This poem is about two young children that go to fetch a pail of water from the nearby brook in the woods, because their well is dry with no water. The children aren't upset that they have to do one of their chores, because they like to get an opportunity away from their daily routine at home and to add to that, the night is very warm and nice. They are not afraid to go inside the woods, because the woods are theirs to begin with. They later play in the beautiful moonlight. When they get near the water brook, they stop and listen to it to check if it's still running, when they hear it, it's like a "tinkle" and when they find it, it reflects the moon's light like a "silver blade".…show more content…
The literary devices used in this poem are very familiar and easy to find. The rhyme scheme of the poem is (a,b,c,b) in all stanzas except for the third stanza which differs and goes like (a,b,b,b). The poem has an iambic tetrameter which means it stresses on four words in each line. There is minor repetition in that the section that differs from the rest in rhyme pattern also repeats, "without the breeze, without the birds, without the leaves". The alliteration is simply "well was, we went, woods were, barren bows." Personification, simile, onomatopoeia, assonance and hyperbole are also found. This poem has a good amount of the

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