The Lockless Door By Robert Frost
"The Lockless Door," by Robert Frost is about a man who doesn't want time to pass, he wants to stay in the present forever. In the poem it seems like the man is "hiding" from time, he doesn't want to age or become old and lose anyone, but most importantly he doesn't want to die. In the poem Frost writes "So at a knock/ I emptied my cage/ To hide in the world/ And alter with age." This pharse means that the person finally accepted the fact he will grow and mature and time will go by.The poem has a regular rhyme sceme is goes, A, B, C, B, D, E, F, E, etc. In the first stanza the words that rhyme are knock and lock. I think the person in the poem is afraid to change what he is like with time he doesn't want to change is apperance or personality as time goes on. This is another one of my favorite poems by Robert Frost, he used good wording and vocabulary. I am excited to read more of his poems in the future.
It went many years
But at last came a knock,
And i thought of the door
with no lock to lock.
I blew out the light
I tip-toed the floor,
and raised both hands
In prayer to the door.
But the knock came again
My window was wide;
I climbed on the sill
And decended inside.
Back over the sill
I bade a "Come in"
To whoever the knock
At the door may have been.
So at a knock
I emptied my cage
to hind in the world
and alter with age.
"The Lockless Door," by Robert Frost is about a man who doesn't want time to pass, he wants to stay in the present forever. In the poem it seems like the man is "hiding" from time, he doesn't want to age or become old and lose anyone, but most importantly he doesn't want to die. In the poem Frost writes "So at a knock/ I emptied my cage/ To hide in the world/ And alter with age." This pharse means that the person finally accepted the fact he will grow and mature and time will go by.The poem has a regular rhyme sceme is goes, A, B, C, B, D, E, F, E, etc. In the first stanza the words that rhyme are knock and lock. I think the person in the poem is afraid to change what he is like with time he doesn't want to change is apperance or personality as time goes on. This is another one of my favorite poems by Robert Frost, he used good wording and vocabulary. I am excited to read more of his poems in the future.
It went many years
But at last came a knock,
And i thought of the door
with no lock to lock.
I blew out the light
I tip-toed the floor,
and raised both hands
In prayer to the door.
But the knock came again
My window was wide;
I climbed on the sill
And decended inside.
Back over the sill
I bade a "Come in"
To whoever the knock
At the door may have been.
So at a knock
I emptied my cage
to hind in the world
and alter with age.