Robert Frost A Time To Talk Annotation

For My Literary analysis, I chose Robert Frost’s A Time To Talk. This poem really hit hard for me. The poem is about a person who will put down everything he is doing in order to engage in a conversation with a friend. This really shows how busy our society is and what it means to be a good friend. Frost uses strong diction and symbolism to demonstrate the bond between friends. In the first and second lines, Frost is setting up the situation by telling how a friend stopped on his way passing by and took time out of his day to stop and say hello. It says he “calls to me from the road and slows his horse to a meaning walk” (2). Frost’s word choice here is important in showing that the friend hoped to talk to the speaker. In my head, I can see a person on a horse travelling down a dusty dirt road, slowing their horse down and calling to his friend, who is busy working outside. It is an excellent source of imagery. The next part of the poem continues “I don’t

The symbolism in the poem is the wall. Wooden fences or chain-link fences are not very sturdy and easy to push over. They don’t last long. Stone walls, however, are very strong and sturdy; They do not move. The stone wall is a symbol of the permanent connection friendship provides between people. The theme in Robert Frost’s A Time to Talk is that no matter how busy you are, you can always make time for others. Your work still be there, but your friend might not be. There is a lot of imagery in Frost’s poem, specifically in lines two, four, seven, eight, and nine. Line two talks about the man slowing down his horse at the road. Line four explains the speaker looking around at the hills and all the work he still has to do. Lines seven and eight are very descriptive in showing that the man threw his hoe into the ground to where it stood five feet in the air, and line nine shows the man walking up to the stone