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The Death of the Hired Man
poem by Frost
Robert Frost: Most famous poet in America? Ever attended a poetry reading in an arena?
See all videos for this articleThe Death of the Hired Man, narrative poem by Robert Frost, published in North of Boston in 1914. The poem, written in blank verse, consists of a conversation between the farmer Warren and his wife, Mary, about their former farmhand Silas, an elderly man who has come āhomeā to their farm to die. Silasās plight is poignantly presented, and the characterizations of home as āwhere, when you have to go there,/They have to take you inā and āSomething you somehow havenāt to deserveā are well known.
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