Alden Anderson
English 102
Summer '05 2:15
Frost's Sense
Robert Frost has a certain theory. That a sentence has an overall sound and that word may be taken out and the sound analyzed. The theory is Frost's "Sound of Sense." Or I like to say, that you may sense the sound of a sentence, with a simple little trick. Put your hand over your mouth and speak the sentence, pay attention to the muffled sound instead of the words being spoken. That would be the sound of sense. This paper is an introduction to this theory along with an analysis of a Frost poem I feel articulates this well.
The poem that I have chosen is taken from his later years, after he first came up with this theory. While Frost was up in a mountain interval in '23, I believe his imagination started to stray. This may be how the poem, "Brown's Decent" started. It starts, "BROWN lived at such a lofty farm
That everyone for miles could see
His lantern when he did his chore
In winter after half-past......
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