analysis of storm fear by Robert Frost
“Storm Fear” is a poem by Robert Frost it talks about how it feels being in the snow the distress and fears it comes along with ‘when the wind works against us in the dark, and pelts with snow.’
It’s a family entrapped in a storm in their house; the fire hearth is seen putting out as cold fills in and he wonders if they can keep up with the raging storm. It’s depicted that the poem is about the struggles people endure to keep up with a storm.
The song begins with the snow falling onto the window; this shows the setting is in a home, the narrator being the father of that home. ‘Snow on the lowest chamber of the window’ the narrator tells the readers of how many people are in that home, possibly two grown-ups, and a kid.
The narrator gets furious of the storm that carries away the family barn thus shows it’s not just any other storm but a wild one, he yells at it, ‘come out! come out! (Meyer, 1095). Unfortunately, it gets worse ‘And sees there is need of acting fast to save his people other than seeking aid.
