A Time To TalkA Time To Talk

By: Robert FrostBy: Robert Frost

Robert Frost had to eat raw eggs before a reading of his poetry

Frost won 4 Pulitzer Prizes

Frost read his poetry at the

inauguration of John F. Kennedy

When a friend calls to me from the road When a friend calls to me from the road

And slows his horse to a meaning walk, And slows his horse to a meaning walk,

Horseback was the common mode of transportation in

Robert Frost’s era

Frost typically wrote about nature rather

than society and people

I don't stand still and look around I don't stand still and look around

On all the hills I haven't hoed, On all the hills I haven't hoed,

Robert’s father died when he was very young so he was

forced to do a lot of work for money

Metaphor

And shout from where I am, What is it? And shout from where I am, What is it?

No, not as there is a time to talk. No, not as there is a time to talk.

alliteration

I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,

Blade-end up and five feet tall, Blade-end up and five feet tall,

Frost was often

depressed because of his mental disease

Imagery

Alliteration

And plod: I go up to the stone wall And plod: I go up to the stone wall

For a friendly visit.For a friendly visit.

This poem’s rhyme scheme is ABCABDCEED

Frost also wrote a poem entitled Mending Wall

Meaning of our PoemMeaning of our Poem

This poem is about taking time out This poem is about taking time out of your day or whatever you are of your day or whatever you are doing to talk to the people that doing to talk to the people that mean something to you.mean something to you. Robert’s son committed

suicide in 1940

Robert’s mother abandoned him

soon after his birth