Does anyone know anything about Robert Frosts poem: "Putting in the seed"???

Question

writing a university english test on it tomorrow and can't find any info or an analysis anywhere! Please help!

Answer 1

Hey rhapsda,

Well it sounds like starting a family, but see the second web site, it Robert Frost did not write about sex, (even if it sounds it).
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You come to fetch me from my work to-night
When supper's on the table, and we'll see
If I can leave off burying the white
Soft petals fallen from the apple tree.
(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;)
And go along with you ere you lose sight
Of what you came for and become like me,
Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed
On through the watching for that early birth
When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,

The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

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Frost isn't a poet who writes about sex, it may sound like it has sexual connotations but he was a nature lover, hence, all of his other poems about nature. He had an immense love for nature itself, and can only describe this as 'burning' love.

The poem itself is about the simple pleasures in life that the average person takes for granted.

Frost also mentions the apple here (like in many other of his poems), which represents his greed and passion for nature itself (reference to Eden here, like in Nothing Gold Can Stay and Mending Wall).

Answer 2

Hi there, these are the lyrics of "Putting in the seed" by Robert Frost..Hope u find this useful for your test.

PUTTING IN THE SEED

You come to fetch me from my work to-night
When supper's on the table, and we'll see
If I can leave off burying the white
Soft petals fallen from the apple tree.
(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea
And go along with you ere you lose sight
Of what you came for and become like me,
Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed
On through the watching for that early birth
When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

Robert Frost, America's poet.

Answer 3

This Site Might Help You.

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Does anyone know anything about Robert Frosts poem: "Putting in the seed"???
writing a university english test on it tomorrow and can't find any info or an analysis anywhere! Please help!

Answer 4

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is my favorite poem of all time. It is also by Robert Frost, and in my opinion, much better.

Answer 5

Yup, sounds vaguely sexual.