What is the Poem Bereft by Robert Frost about?
the poem was written about a time in frost’s life when he thought his love and future wife had rejected him. (i.e when he was young) its about his loss of will to live because the only happiness (“summer was past and day was past”) seemed lost to him. The speaker of the poem “Bereft” is alone in sorrow; he is so alone that he has “no one left but God.” The sixteen-line poem has the odd rime scheme of AAAAABBACCDDDEDE, but the rhythm is mesmerizing and complements the haunting grief of the subject. The first two lines begin the poem with a question: “Where had I heard this wind before / Change like this to a deeper roar?” The man alone has become keenly aware of sounds, as one naturally does when occupying a dwelling as a solitary resident. Then he poses another question: “What would it take my standing there for, / Holding open a restive door, / Looking down hill to a frothy shore?” He wonders what this roaring wind would think of his just standing there dumbly at his door holding it o
