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- The butterfly is described as "emulous" of flowers, and its flight is compared to a "limp rose-wreath in a fairy dance." These metaphors suggest the butterfly's beauty and fragility. The poem's tone is elegiac, but it also contains a sense of hope.
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Feb 22, 2021 · My Butterfly: An Elegy was Frost’s first professionally published poem. It was self-published privately in 1894 in Twilight, appeared in the November 1894 issue of the Independent, and was then collected in Frost’s first collection, A Boy’s Will. Frost claimed it as his “first real poem,” having recounted to Louis Untermeyer that he ...
How elegant to describe his love as a butterfly that flew away from God’s grasp, just wondering where she flew off to. Though this poem is quite cold and saddening, it is strangely heart warming as well.
Dec 8, 2023 · “My Butterfly” tells the sorrow felt by the speaker over the death of a butterfly he had seen the previous summer. The butterfly which once inspired joy and magic in the speaker now leaves the speaker to question Fate and God as the forces which rule the cosmos.
Nov 8, 2017 · In a November 7, 1917, letter to Louis Untermeyer, Frost recalled that “I read my first poem at 15, wrote my first poem at 16, wrote My Butterfly at eighteen. That was my first poem published” (The Letters of Robert Frost, v. 1, p. 586).
My Butterfly. Robert Frost. 1874 –. 1963. Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too, And the daft sun-assaulter, he. That frighted thee so oft, is fled or dead: Save only me. (Nor is it sad to thee!)
Analysis (ai): This poem by Robert Frost mourns the loss of a butterfly. The speaker's grief is tinged with regret for the butterfly's ephemeral existence and the realization that he was complicit in its demise. The poem is notable for its use of vivid imagery and sensory details.
by Robert Frost. Additional Information. Year Published: 1915. Language: English. Country of Origin: United States of America. Source: Frost, R. (1915). A Boy's Will New York: Henry Holt. Readability: Flesch–Kincaid Level: 9.0.
