The poem The Most of It by Robert Frost is an excerpt from a longer poem called The Tuft of Flowers. The poem The Tuft of Flowers was written in 1913, but the excerpt The Most of It was published in 1916. The full text for The Tuft of Flowers can be found here. The scene described within the poem is that two young men are hiking through the woods. They have just finished their hike when they encounter a group of young women wearing identical outfits with daisy florets sewn into them.
One woman discusses her love interest, another flirts with one of the hikers, and then they all run off together leaving one girl behind to remain with the hikers. The poem The Most of It is said to be showing the “most of it” which means that Robert Frost is trying to show the reader what happens when women are alone with men. The poem The Most of It has an irregular rhyme scheme and there seems to be a negative connotation towards women. The title The Most of It describes how Robert Frost thinks that this excerpt from The Tuft of Flowers shows more than any other part within the entire poem.
The title “The Most of It” The two lines, “‘I never saw so many,’ he said. ” and “She stayed so long she did not have time/ To join them in their game” describe how one young woman was left behind by all of the others and she did not even get to join in their game. The title The Most of It can be referring to how this girl was left behind by all of the other girls who went off to have fun, or it could be showing how Robert Frost thinks that The Most of It are what happens when women are alone with men.
The fact that Robert Frost chose a negative connotation towards women within The Most of It seems to show his thoughts on a woman’s role in a man’s life. Robert Frost describes The Most of It as having “knocked her from her perch,” which means that he doesn’t think that women should be competitive with each other, but rather they should work together. In The Tuft of Flowers, there were three young men and three young women. The six of them went off in different groups, but The Most of It focuses on the only girl who was left behind. The last line in The Most of It is “And I …
I touched her with my hand” which could be the beginning of a sexual relationship between this man and woman. This could be symbolism for Robert Frost thinking that The Most of It happen when one girl is left behind by all of the others to become either sexually intimate or romantically intimate with one of the men remaining after all the other women have left together. The lines, “She stayed so long she did not have time/ To join them in their game,” show how none of the four individuals within The Most of It had anything to do with each other.
The young men did not interact with the woman, The Tuft of Flowers did not spend time with The Most of It, and The Most of It was left alone while The Tuft of Flowers enjoys its game. The three verses within The Most of It are about how Robert Frost sees women as inferior to men because they get left behind by all the others who go off to have fun together which means that one young woman has no choice but to be alone with one man. The line “And I…
I touched her with my hand” shows an act between two people but it does not say whether or not this act was consensual. The words “With one home thrust I knocked her from her perch/ The others never saw what took place nor knew” show how Robert Frost thinks that Most of It happens when one girl is left behind by all the other women to become either sexually intimate or romantically intimate with one of the men remaining after all the other women have left together.
The words “I touched her with my hand” show an act between two people but it does not say whether or not this act was consensual. The poem The Tuft of Flowers includes only six individual characters; there are three young men and three young women. The individuals within The Most of It are split into four separate groups; The most of it, The Tuft of Flowers, the man, and the woman. What takes place within The Most of It is The Most of It, The Tuft of Flowers, The young man who touches the young woman with his hand, and The young woman who gets knocked from her perch.
The individual characters within The Most of It are not included in the poem The Tuft of Flowers. Out of all six individuals within two separate poems, Robert Frost choose to make a metaphor about how he thinks The Most of It happens when women get left behind by all the other girls. The three verses within The Most of It focus on how Robert Frost makes a negative connotation towards women because they get left behind by all the others going off to have fun together which means that one girl has no choice but to be alone with a man.
Robert Frost chooses to use The Most of It as a metaphor to explain how he thinks The Most of It happens when women get left behind by The Tuft of Flowers and all the other girls for The Most of It and The Tuft of Flowers to become either sexually intimate or romantically intimate with each other. The words “And I… I touched her with my hand” shows an act between two people but it does not say whether or not this act was consensual. The poem The Most Of It has four individual characters; The most of it, The Tuft of Flowers, The Man, and The Woman.
The verse within Robert Frost’s poem The Most Of It focuses on how Robert Frost makes a negative connotation towards women because they get left behind by all The Tuft of Flowers The Most Of It The Man The Woman goodbye The Most Of It The Man The Woman. The three verses within The Most of it focus on how Robert Frost makes a negative connotation towards women because they get left behind by all the others going off to have fun which means that one girl has no choice but to be alone with a man.
Out of all six individuals within two separate poems, Robert Frost choose to make a metaphor about how he thinks The Most of it happens when women get left behind by all the other girls which are also known as an Anaphora throughout this poem. What takes place within The most of it is what Robert Frost chooses to use as a metaphor for his perspective about The Mostofit and focus on how The The Most Of It The Man The Woman gets left behind by The The Most of it The Tuft of Flowers and The The Most Of It The Man The woman.
Robert Frost uses the word “knocked” in his poem because he thinks it takes place when a man and a women get sexually or romantically intimate with each other for one girl to get knocked from her perch. The words “With one home thrust I knocked her from her perch/ The others never saw what took place nor knew” show that both Robert Frost and this young woman did not wish to be intimate together which means that Robert Frost thought more of what progressed between him and the young woman during the time they were alone more than he thought
