The Horse Whisperer

The Horse Whisperer Among all of the devices beautifully used in this verse form by Frost, personification is the one I want to focalisation on in this essay. My little vaulting knight must think it fantastic (Stanza 2, Line 1) The idea of the horse thinking about the passengers intentions and the fact that rider pays attention to what his little horse must think, shows the relationship between the rider and his and when alive companion he has in this journey. Although we can argue the whole poem as an interior monologue, this relationship between the rider and the horse is the solitary(prenominal) bond there is between the man and his surroundings.He gives his attach bells a shake To ask if there is or so mistake. (Stanza 3, Lines 1,2) It is noteworthy that the poet has elect the pronouns He and His for the horse indicating the role that rider considers for it apart from being only a vehicle. Upon consideration, the horse becomes a means to an end for the speaker. The h orse is fundamentally the riders means for attaining his promises which he has miles and miles to get to them. With this in mind, the horse becomes an extension of the speakers own views in the anticipation of lamentable forward.The horse never really asks or wonders about any of the things mentioned it is only the speakers own thoughts projected onto the horse. This personification and projection of thought magnify the separation between the speaker and his surrounding natural environment. He, with his horse, or rather vehicle of progress, appears to be the only living things around. It seems throughout the poem his horse is the only thing, which tries to keep him attached to the environment and his surroundings. The horse equal any practical being, wants to get on down the road to viands and shelter.The narrator himself, however, continues to get fascinated by the mysteries of the forest, the otherness, sleep and death. At some point, it seems like he has given up the rationali ty and responsibility of his actions to the horse as he talks with some kind of neighborly side towards the matter by the use of words Stopping by and the soak up where he says Whose woods these are I think I know. (1) besides when he says My little horse must think it queer he admits that the thinking and rationalizing process has been given to the horse while his mind is booked with matters such as death and the promises he has to keep.The most significant auditive imagery used in the poem is of the horses bells He gives his harness bells a shake (11) . Other than that there is only what other sound mentioned in the poem The only other sounds the sweep Of easy wind and downlike flake. (Stanza 3) All this creates an odd, somehow scary atmosphere mirroring the inner conflicts of the rider and his only companion through this battle is a horse on which he relies in several occasions. Works Cited http//studentacademichelp. blogspot. com Steve Pedersen Stopping by Woods on a Snow y Evening A Burkean/Ecocritical Reading