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A humorous poem about a stranger who offers to buy the poet's Christmas trees in the country. The poet refuses to sell them and compares them to churches with spires.
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Christmas Tree Poem. Christmas tree, sparkling bright, Filled with baubles, warmth and light, Precious symbol of our affection For Christmas time and its perfection, Show each night your radiant glory For "oohs" and "aahs" obligatory.
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The poem is fairly straightforward. It starts out with a description ofa man who came to visit the speaker’s home. There, he inquired about the Christmas trees in the pasture behind the house. The speaker was surprised about this as he’d never thought about the trees that way. He tells the man he doesn’t want to sell them, but he then ends up humor...
In ‘Christmas Trees,’ the poet engages with themes of consumerism and city life versus country life. From the start, the reader is made aware of the difference between the man writing the letter, who owns the Christmas trees, and the man who has come from the city to buy them. The latter is interested in making a profit, while the former cares abou...
‘Christmas Trees’ by Robert Frost is a five-stanza poem that’s separated into uneven stanzas. The first is the longest, at thirty-one lines, the second is eleven lines, the third: one line, the fourth: two lines, and the fifth is sixteen lines long. Frost uses two speakers in ‘Christmas Trees’ and does not employ a septic rhyme schemeor metrical pa...
Frost makes use of several literary devices in ‘Christmas Trees.’ These include but are not limited to alliteration, enjambment, and imagery. The first of these, alliteration, occurs when the poet uses the same consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words. For example, “lay” and “letter” in line fourteen of the final stanza and “seemed so sma...
Stanza Two
In the second stanza, the tree owner tells the visiting city-dweller that he doesn’t think he’d ever let them go. Despite this, they head to the pasture, and the man explores what’s there. When he returns, he tells the speaker that he thinks there are a thousand trees on the lot. This is a large number, much larger than one likely expected from the speaker’s initial reticence. The value of them is up in the air considering the speaker’s depiction of them as lopsided and growing into one anoth...
Stanzas Three and Four
The next two stanzas are one line and two lines. The speaker’s shocked at the number and asks the visitor what he’d pay for each tree. Now, the speaker refers to them as “Christmas trees,” something that he’d never have done before. The man offers him three cents for each tree, coming to a total of thirty dollars. It’s at this point. The speaker tells the reader in the next stanza that he knew he’d never sell them.
Readers who enjoyed ‘Christmas Trees’ should also consider reading some of Frost’s other best-known poems. For example, 1. ‘Mending Wall’– discussing humanity’s habit of marking off territory and claiming land, something the speaker does not look kindly on. 2. ‘Desert Places’ –explores isolation and loneliness within natural imagery. The speaker is...
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I hadn't thought of them as Christmas trees. I doubt if I was tempted for a moment. To sell them off their feet to go in cars. And leave the slope behind the house all bare, Where the sun shines now no warmer than the moon. I'd hate to have them know it if I was. Yet more I'd hate to hold my trees, except.
