Looking at the first verse; I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind. ... The words are walk and world, I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind. ... Remember kryptonite is a symbol that represents a person or group to him. ...
To add a little suspense to this stanza the speaker notes the dark "color of the heavy hemlocks" as well as remembering "cry of the peacocks." ... "I saw how the planets gathered/Like the leaves themselves/Turning in the wind- The speaker then sees "how the night came, /Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks- Now the person in the poem is scared, and realizes that the "stars too seem part of this process of annihilation" (Sukenick, p. 8), now the speaker "remembers the [peacocks] cry which marks it" (Sukenick, p. 8). ... For instance, he compares the planets to the leaves, and...
In one line he says "And on a day we meet to walk the line" (pg. 889) Frost uses the word "line" as a substitute for "wall" which creates the idea of a finite separation between the two properties, at least in his neighbors eyes, with no room for variation. ... (pg. 889) this is insinuating that Frost's apple trees couldn't walk across to his neighbor's property like cows would, even if the wall was not there. ... Repeating this line emphasizes that he wants it to be remembered for some reason. ...
The beginning of the stanza asks, "Does the said=remember the walker upon it?" This can be seen as a Biblical reference referring to when Jesus miraculously walked in water. This reference makes a point, telling the reader to remember to have faith and not to lose hope. ...
