Part B: Poem Analysis – The Draft Horse Emma Tan Robert Frost, author of The Draft Horse wrote this poem in the early to mid-1920's. ... The narrative flow of the poem is continuous until the moment the horse is "stabbed dead" (8). ... However, in comparing the second stanza to the third, the third one is broken into two sentences. ... The onomatopoeic effect with a "crack of a broken shaft" (10) creates an aural visualization of the cracking noise we would've heard when a knife is plunged into the horse. ... The frail buggy, is the weak...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate