Personal Response Assignment 1

At the beginning of this unit, we analyzed a poem called “Come In”, by Robert Frost. Take some time to
review your notes, and to think about the discussions we had surrounding that poem.

Your assignment will be to write a Personal Response (PRT) using that poem, and responding to the
guiding question below:

What does the poem suggest to you about an individual’s ability to pursue
personal well-being when responding to competing internal and/or external
demands?
You will find the poem on the back of this handout. Before you begin your assignment, please
complete the planning information below:

1. What is my opinion on the prompt question?

2. Will I respond critically, personally, or creatively?

3. What prose form will I choose?

4. How will I incorporate the source text?

Come In
by Robert Frost
As I came to the edge of the woods,
Thrush music -- hark!
Now if it was dusk outside,
Inside it was dark.

Too dark in the woods for a bird

By sleight of wing
To better its perch for the night,
Though it still could sing.

The last of the light of the sun

That had died in the west
Still lived for one song more
In a thrush's breast.

Far in the pillared dark

Thrush music went --
Almost like a call to come in
To the dark and lament.

But no, I was out for stars;

I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked;
And I hadn't been.