Robert Frost's "Two Tramps In Mud Time"

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upon the "unimportant wood". The appparent
arrogance of the narrator is revealed as well by his reference to himself as a
Herculean figure standing not alongside nature, but over it: "The grip on earth
of outspread feet,/The life of muscles rocking soft/And smooth and moist in
vernal heat."

Unexpectedly, the narrator then turns toward nature, apparently abandoning his
initial train of thought. He reveals the unpredictability of nature, saying
that even in the middle of spring, it can be "two months back in the middle of
March." Even the fauna of the land is involved with this chicanery; the arrival
of the bluebird would to most indicate the arrival of spring, yet "he wouldn't
advise a thing to blossom." The narrator points to the conclusion that, while
on the surface, things appear to be one thing, there is always something hidden
below, much like "The lurking frost in the earth beneath..."

In the final three stanzas of the poem, the "frost" within the narrator comes to
the ...

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