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My woods—the young fir balsams like a place. Where houses all are churches and have spires. I hadn’t thought of them as Christmas Trees. I doubt if I was tempted for a moment. To sell them off their feet to go in cars. And leave the slope behind the house all bare, Where the sun shines now no warmer than the moon.
In December the trees provided her and her father with the inspiration for Christmas letters they sent to friends and neighbors. Frost wrote by hand a draft of a new poem, “Christmas Trees,” while Lesley illustrated the top of the each first page.
- Summary of Christmas Trees
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The poem is fairly straightforward. It starts out with a description ofa man who came to visit the speaker’s home. There, he inquired about the Christmas trees in the pasture behind the house. The speaker was surprised about this as he’d never thought about the trees that way. He tells the man he doesn’t want to sell them, but he then ends up humor...
In ‘Christmas Trees,’ the poet engages with themes of consumerism and city life versus country life. From the start, the reader is made aware of the difference between the man writing the letter, who owns the Christmas trees, and the man who has come from the city to buy them. The latter is interested in making a profit, while the former cares abou...
‘Christmas Trees’ by Robert Frost is a five-stanza poem that’s separated into uneven stanzas. The first is the longest, at thirty-one lines, the second is eleven lines, the third: one line, the fourth: two lines, and the fifth is sixteen lines long. Frost uses two speakers in ‘Christmas Trees’ and does not employ a septic rhyme schemeor metrical pa...
Frost makes use of several literary devices in ‘Christmas Trees.’ These include but are not limited to alliteration, enjambment, and imagery. The first of these, alliteration, occurs when the poet uses the same consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words. For example, “lay” and “letter” in line fourteen of the final stanzaand “seemed so smal...
Stanza Two
In the second stanza, the tree owner tells the visiting city-dweller that he doesn’t think he’d ever let them go. Despite this, they head to the pasture, and the man explores what’s there. When he returns, he tells the speaker that he thinks there are a thousand trees on the lot. This is a large number, much larger than one likely expected from the speaker’s initial reticence. The value of them is up in the air considering the speaker’s depiction of them as lopsided and growing into one anoth...
Stanzas Three and Four
The next two stanzas are one line and two lines. The speaker’s shocked at the number and asks the visitor what he’d pay for each tree. Now, the speaker refers to them as “Christmas trees,” something that he’d never have done before. The man offers him three cents for each tree, coming to a total of thirty dollars. It’s at this point. The speaker tells the reader in the next stanza that he knew he’d never sell them.
Readers who enjoyed ‘Christmas Trees’ should also consider reading some of Frost’s other best-known poems. For example, 1. ‘Mending Wall’– discussing humanity’s habit of marking off territory and claiming land, something the speaker does not look kindly on. 2. ‘Desert Places’ –explores isolation and loneliness within natural imagery. The speaker is...
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Whether through the simplicity of Anschütz's carol, Burford's descriptive verses, or Clifton's celebration of togetherness, these poems capture the essence of the Christmas tree and add a touch of magic to our festivities.
Dec 15, 2018 · Beauty, Culture, Poetry. A Visit from St. Nicholas, 1823. by Clement Clarke Moore. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
Jul 27, 2020 · So my choice of Christmas poem this morning is ‘The Cultivation of Christmas Trees,’ by TS Eliot. Eliot began life as a Unitarian, but became an Anglo-Catholic after moving to London. I wrote yesterday of how he was dismissive of Coleridge, who had been a Unitarian before returning to the Anglicanism of his birth, describing him as a mere ...
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Every December in Trafalgar Square in central London, a huge Christmas tree is put up, decorated and lit. Not many people know that this tree is a gift from the city of Oslo, and that a tree has been given each year for over seventy years. The first gift of a tree was in 1947 in thanks for British.
