To Earthward by Robert Frost E-mail: lets just say I'm an AP students with an A- in the course English IV AP February 2000 To Earthward Robert Frost's "To Earthward" is an intimate lyric in which an old man reflects upon his passionate experiences with love as a youth and the lack of such experiences in his old age. Through diction, imagery and structure, the tone of the speaker changes from one of gentle nostalgia to …showed first 75 words of 428 total…

…showed last 75 words of 428 total…that accompanies love because he desperately longs for the intense love he experienced as a youth. He "crave(s) the stain/ Of tears, the aftermark/ Of almost too much love" (21-22) because he did not appreciate the transient nature of love until too late in his life. He is left to pound on the ground (his future resting-place), resentful that his longing for love will never be as intense as the experience of love itself.