To The Thawing Wind

Authors Note: I will be analyzing the poem To The Thawing Wind by: Robert Frost and showing how figurative language impacts this poem.

This poem is basically about hope, with the coming of spring. The author gets your attention in the first line by saying the loud blowing of the wind is bringing spring rain "Come with rain, O loud Southwester!"  Throughout the poem he uses metaphors and personification to enhance the impact of his words.

"Bring the singer, bring the nester" is an example of how he uses metaphoric language to show how a bird is on its way. He gives a flower personification by saying it has the dream of coming out of the ground and blooming, the dream of a new life. He uses rhyming to make the poem move along smoothly as if the melting ice will flow and go.

The tone of the poem takes a strong edge, when he says "Melt the glass and leave the sticks, Like a hermit's crucifix." He is using this powerful hyperbole to make the reader feel the impact of how glass could possibly melt and how a hermit would use a cross to get out of winter.

The overall feeling created by the figurative language gives the reader a sense of both the warmth of spring and yet the cold winds that are blowing the winter snows away. In the last five lines Frost leaves the reader with a confused feeling that the wind is blowing things around in a scattered way.

I feel this poem leaves the reader with a hope that despite the rain and the loud winds there is hope that the dream of spring and flowers is a reality. Even though he uses some strong language such as swinging pictures and rattling pages you still feel that the "Thawing Wing" will bring the dream of new life.