The Birth place

By: - Robert Frost.

Here further up the mountain slope
Than there was every any hope,
My father built, enclosed a spring,
Strung chains of wall round everything,
Subdued the growth of earth to grass,
And brought our various lives to pass.
A dozen girls and boys we were.
The mountain seemed to like the stir,
And made of us a little while--
With always something in her smile.
Today she wouldn't know our name.
(No girl's, of course, has stayed the same.)
The mountain pushed us off her knees.
And now her lap is full of trees.

What does this poem remind you off?????? This is one of my favorite poems by Robert Frost though it is quite different from other poems. This poem reminded me of many different things, among them one of them is my hometown because it also has mountain, in fact the highest mountain in the world, it reminded me of time when I was small and also how much I miss my hometown.

I think this poem is different than others because it doesn’t have any metaphors or similes, though it the personification because the speaker has called the mountain “her”, given the word “smile and lap”. The biggest symbol in the poem is the mountain which symbolizes many things like peace, purity and the poem tells us that how much the speaker is attached to that place, and his personality is influenced by his home town. It is a traditional poem with only total of fourteen lines and seven sentences which is called sonnet.

What I thought about the poem was that there was no one living there up in the mountain until the speaker along with his family went to stay there, after they settled down even other people came to live and there they had a mix up with different types of people but at one point of time something went wrong and they had to leave that place but when he went back to that place no one recognizes him. Well it kind of relates to most of our story though we left our home town and moved away not because something went wrong but because of our parents job and for the purpose of our education.

After I read this poem I felt this poem reflects a lot with what is happening in my life. I also thought this is such a cute poem.