Mowing By Robert Frost Personification

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The poem “Mowing” is a lot more than just a farmer taking care of some errands. In this poem Frost uses personification to make the scythe come to life. “What it whispered? I knew not well myself” (“‘Mowing,”’23 Nov 2016). The scythe takes pleasure in working hard and not getting a reward for it. Frost believed that we should enjoy the work that we do everyday. There are only a few times in a person's life that are exciting such as getting your license, marriage, and becoming a legal adult. If we were to add them all up there would probably be only 20 days. Out of your whole life, you should be able to genuinely enjoy more than 20 days. “The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. / My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.”