The Tuft of Flowers

Big Three

Speaker: Robert Frost
Audience: Anyone
Situation: Man goes to mow grass, but it has already been mown. He feels lonely. He is then led to a tuft of flowers by a butterfly, where he can feel the presence of the man who mowed the grass. He concludes that no one is ever alone.

The Butterfly- "And once I marked his flight go round and round, as where some flower lay withering on the ground" (18)

The Tuft of Flowers- At a tall tuft of flowers beside a brook, a leaping tongue of bloom the scythe had spared" (18)

Companionship

"'Men work together,' I told him from the heart, 'whether they work together or apart'" (19)

21 heroic couplets that occasionally break iambic pentameter

"And I must be, as he had been,--alone, 'As all must be,' I said within my heart" (18)

"'Men work together...whether they work together or alone'"(19)

Enlightening consolation

Pessimism to Optimism

Alone- "And I must be, as he had been--alone" (18)

"So that henceforth I worked no more alone" (19)

Heart- "I said within my heart" (18)

"I told him from my heart" (19)

Frost personifies the scythe and the flowers

Reader can hear the "wakening birds" and the "scythe whispering to the ground" and feel the dew and see the tuft of flowers.

Comfort