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1) Interpreting the poem and understanding the implications of the lines.

2) annotating, such as the words and phrases that are significant and why they are.

3) Which words convey a lot of meaning in the poem? Such as the connotations? How can I recognize these?

4) What re the key images in the poem that provide sensory image?

5) Are there patterns of images that interlock or relate to each other?

6) How does the external/internal rhyme relate?
7) What are the relevant patterns in rhyme and meter?

8) Where does the thread of theme begin and end?

9) What is the reader supposed to understand from this poem?

10) How would I find the meaning in the poem? How do rhythm, rhyme, meter, image, speaker, and theme help the reader to understand? Are there quotes from the poem that are key to this understanding?

11) When reading it are there intonations, pauses, speed or slowness of speech, confidence, timidity, etc. that have to be understood in the oral interpretation to make the poem more effective?

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Welcome to BM! I value you as a client. Please rate 5/5 for my notes. Please note that many questions overlap, so you might have to shift the answers to suit your needs.

1) Interpreting the poem and understanding the implications of the lines. 10) How would I find the meaning in the poem?

I see the poem as suggesting the realities of life in rural areas or how the circle of life persists despite accidents in the scheme of things. Do you agree?

2) annotating, such as the words and phrases that are significant and why they are.

I feel that Frost cleverly uses personification in the poem to conjure death in areas such as "The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard." Thus, the vivid verbs personify the saw, making it humanlike.
"Sweet-scented stuff" exemplifies alliteration as well as more personification as in "when the breeze drew across it." It seems to also show the sheer power of nature and the man versus nature conflict as well.

3) Which words convey a lot of meaning in the poem? Such as the connotations? How can I recognize these?

"Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap -He must have given the hand" again personifies the saw as if jumping, ...

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