A New Fascination in “Ghost House” by Robert Frost

For this week’s poem I’m going with, “Ghost House” by Robert Frost which was published in 1915. Upon stumbling on this poem I immediately became fascinated by the melancholy sentiment that Frost evokes with imagery. Frost’s poetry normally claims his convictions through imagery with positive nature rather than the sad nature found in “Ghost House”. Frost describes this empty house that has been vacant for many “summer ago” and it’s a house that has no light, only darkness. He then elaborates on the condition of the house throughout his stanzas, were imagery of emptiness is expressed of the house. Although this poem evokes a shadow of sadness it produces diction of emptiness through the word choices of “lonely house” and “left no trace”. These word choices are essentially the first attention grabbing words that led me to be completely enthralled with this poem. These word choices illustrate the conviction of something as beautiful as a house can be empty without any one to appreciate the true value it possess.

Reading aloud, the claim I noticed suggests that a person’s mind sight would be more traditional and evidently leads to the end of any new idea to come to mind. For instance, with the word choice of “A cellar in which the daylight falls” suggest that in this “house” the only thing that happens with “daylight” dies. This expression elaborates that people may not allow any new ways of think enter your old brain.

Elaborating more on the philosophy that one’s mind represents the “lonely house” and the ordinary manner of thinking in his generation.

The last stanza of this poem emphasizes that even though there are people that seem useless to the narrator, the person is glad that they are there. The lines, “And yet, in view of how many things,/ As sweet companions as might be had.” This line accentuates the need of the narrator to have companion regardless of the person.  Furthermore, this poem expresses that mind of an ordinary person that has the basic need to feel accompanied. This philosophy even correlates with the simple idea of a ghost wandering around humans wanting to feel connected to anything. Frost presented a very sad beauty of a poem that completely fascinated my mind because of the inner depth of how anyone naturally feels to be connected.