ON A TREE FALLEN

ACROSS THE ROAD

• By Robert lee frost
Biography of the Author
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT LEE FROST

Born: 26 March 1874

Birthplace: San Francisco, California
Died: 29 January 1963 (aged 88)
Best Known As: The poet who wrote
"The Road Not Taken“
Occupation: Poet, playwright
Selected Poems:
 Mendiang Wall
 Aquainted With The Night
 The Road Not Taken
 Dedication
 Fire And Ice
 Nothing Gold Can Stay
 Out,Out-
Plays:
• A Way Out: A One Act Play (Harbor Press, 1929).
• The Cow's in the Corn: A One Act Irish Play in Rhyme (Slide
Mountain Press, 1929).
• A Masque of Reason (Holt, 1945).
• A Masque of Mercy (Holt, 1947).

Prose:
• The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (Holt,
Rinehart & Winston, 1963; Cape, 1964).
• Robert Frost and John Bartlett: The Record of a Friendship, by
Margaret Bartlett Anderson (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963).
Published as:
• Collected Poems, Prose and Plays (Richard Poirier,
ed.) (Library of America, 1995) 
ISBN 978-1-88301106-2.

Pulitzer Prizes:
• 1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and
Grace Notes
• 1931 for Collected Poems
• 1937 for A Further Range
• 1943 for A Witness Tree
• LITERARY
MEANING..
The tree the tempest with a crash of wood
Throws down in front of us is not bar
Our passage to our journey’s end for good
But just to ask us who we think we are
• In the poem a tree literally falls across the
road, creates a barrier and brings the journey
to a halt. The tree is used as the obstacle –
something to be overcome by purpose of
spirit and ingenuity
Insisting always on our own way so.
She likes to halt us in our runner tracks,
And make us get down in a foot of snow
Debating what to do without an ax
• mother nature throws this tree in our way to
make us stop and think. 

• There are typical type of people, always in a

hurry to achieve our goals, we see the tree as an
obstacle rather than an 
opportunity to really figure out who we are.
• We walk in circles being pissed about not
achieving our goals while we could sit on the tree
and contemplate the beauty around us
And yet she knows obstruction is in vain
We will not be put off the final goal
We have it hidden in us to attain
Not though we have to seize earth by the pole
• From this stanza we know that
The people learn that a simple journey may be
stopped at any random moment by a freak act
of nature and that they will have to dig deep
inside themselves and to find their strength
 And, tired of aimless circling in one place
Steer straight off after something into space
• We tire and grow bored of one place and seek
to conquer another, whether it be on earth or
in space exploration.
• Subject Matter.
They show essential messages to the journey
of life. It helps to prove that everything has a
weakness and that humans do have the ability
to overcome obstacles.
 THEME

• Theme ~ Overcoming
Obstacles in life..
 TONE..

• Serious
 Mood

• Disappointed
 Rhyme Scheme
• Rhyme pattern of this
poem are
a, b, a, b
 Alliteration
•

• In this poem state in line

1,stanza one
“The Tree The Tempest”
 Metaphor
• Metaphor in this story are “the fallen tree”
• Its symbolise obstacles one can counter
through life.
 Moral Values
• Do not let obstacle stop you from achieving
something
• Strength will raise you up from the failure
 Reference
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