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The Line-Gang -- Robert Frost

Guest poem submitted by Yashashree Kulkarni:
(Poem #1535) The Line-Gang
 Here come the line-gang pioneering by,
 They throw a forest down less cut than broken.
 They plant dead trees for living, and the dead
 They string together with a living thread.
 They string an instrument against the sky
 Wherein words whether beaten out or spoken
 Will run as hushed as when they were a thought
 But in no hush they string it: they go past
 With shouts afar to pull the cable taught,
 To hold it hard until they make it fast,
 To ease away -- they have it. With a laugh,
 An oath of towns that set the wild at naught
 They bring the telephone and telegraph.
-- Robert Frost
I came across this poem while browsing through a collection of Frost's poems
on the internet. What facinated me most about this poem is how Frost manages
to move back and forth, so effortlessly, between seemingly disjoint worlds -
the forest, the activities of the linemen, the world that'll come to exist
in the live wires and even the thoughts living in our brains as electrical
signals - and 'strings them together with a living thread', the poem.

Yashashree Kulkarni.

19 comments: ( or Leave a comment )

Mallika Chellappa said...

 Amazing poes, thirteen lines with enough rhyme to
have been a sonnet if he had wanted to add that extra
line.

Frost's poems are full of imagery; so are
Wordsworth's, and now I wonder if both
laboured equally hard to achieve that, or
was it effortless?

Mallika

Catherine Pegg said...

This, with all its contrasts and contradictions, actually reminds me a lot
of some of the riddles from the Exeter Book.

Compare:

Wherein words whether beaten out or spoken
Will run as hushed as when they were a thought
But in no hush they string it

with:

My house is not quiet I am not loud ...

(from The Fish)

I don't think that Frost had this in mind. It's just something that I
noticed.

Cat

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