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The Witch of Coos. I staid the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountains, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They did all the talking. MOTHER Folks think a witch who has familiar spirits She could call up to pass a winter evening, But won’t, should be burned at the stake or something. Summoning spirits isn’t ‘Button, button ...
The Witch of Coös. By Robert Frost. JSTOR and the Poetry Foundation are collaborating to digitize, preserve, and extend access to Poetry. Source: Poetry (January 1922) Browse all issues back to 1912. This Appears In. Read Issue. SUBSCRIBE TODAY. January 1922 | Baker Brownell, Jean Catel, Harriet Monroe, Dorothy Aldis, Helen Crew, Glenn ...
The Witch of Coos. I staid the night for shelter at a farm. Behind the mountain, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They did all the talking. The Mother. Folks think a witch who has familiar spirits. She could call up to pass a winter evening, But won’t, should be burned at the stake or something.
Jeffrey Meyers. "The Witch of Coös" (named for a county in northern New Hampshire) is a ghost - or skeleton - story inspired by the heroines in the tales of Edgar Poe who burst the confines of their coffins. The down-to-earth narrator confirms the reality of the supernatural events, which were told to him by the witch and her son (two "old ...
ROBERT FROST'S "THE WITCH OF COOS," A MATTER OF CHOICE. John J.Joyce. Somewhere beyond the myth of Robert Frost as a poet of rustic common sense and innate empathy with natural truths exists an artist whose works are often quite disturbing. This "Other Frost"1 is a writer who frequently evokes visions of darkness?at once strange and subtle.
To make no more of a wall than an…. And think no more of wall—builders…. Her face is flecked with pomace an…. A cider syrup. Having tasted frui…. Tree at my Window. Tree at my window, window tree,My sash is lowered when night come…. But let there never be curtain dra….
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, from, to, i, and, ', of, out, attic are repeated. The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word another is repeated. There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, back, bed, ', cellar are repeated).
