From Frost's "The Road Not Taken": "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / And be one traveler, long I stood". What is the speaker's tone?

In "The Road Not Taken" the speaker admits: "Though as for that the passing there / Had worn them really about the same,". What mood does this admission create in the reader?

"The Road Not Taken" ends: "I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence:". The lines leave the reader wistful. Which word names the SPEAKER'S attitude instead?

From Frost's "Birches": "Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells / Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust--". What mood do these images create?

From "Birches": "But I was going to say when Truth broke in / With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm / (Now am I free to be poetical?)". What is the speaker's tone toward Truth?

In "Birches" the speaker says: "Earth's the right place for love: / I don't know where it's likely to go better." The plain lines leave the reader comforted. Which word names the SPEAKER'S attitude instead?

From Frost's "An Old Man's Winter Night": "All out of doors looked darkly in at him / Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, / That gathers on the pane in empty rooms." What mood is created?

"An Old Man's Winter Night" ends: "One aged man--one man--can't fill a house, / A farm, a countryside, or if he can, / It's thus he does it of a winter night." What is the speaker's tone?

From "An Old Man's Winter Night": "Where now he sat, concerned with he knew what, / A quiet light, and then not even that." The reader feels loss. Which word names the speaker's tone?

From Frost's "Out, Out--": "And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled, / As it ran light, or had to bear a load. / And nothing happened: day was all but done." What mood does the repetition build?

In "Out, Out--" Frost writes: "Call it a day, I wish they might have said / To please the boy by giving him the half hour". What is the speaker's tone?

"Out, Out--" ends: "And they, since they / Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs." The reader is left shocked. Which word names the speaker's tone here?

From "Mending Wall": "Something there is that doesn't love a wall, / That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,". The unseen force leaves the reader unsettled. Which word names the SPEAKER'S attitude instead?

In "Mending Wall" the speaker calls the yearly repair "just another kind of out-door game, / One on a side. It comes to little more:". What mood do these lines create?

"Mending Wall": "He moves in darkness as it seems to me, / Not of woods only and the shade of trees." The lines chill the reader. What do they show about the speaker's view of the man?

From Frost's "After Apple-Picking": "Essence of winter sleep is on the night, / The scent of apples: I am drowsing off." What mood do these lines create?

In "After Apple-Picking": "For I have had too much / Of apple-picking: I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired." The confession leaves the reader sympathetic. Which word names the SPEAKER'S attitude instead?

"After Apple-Picking": "There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch, / Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall." The reader feels endless work. What does "Cherish" show about the speaker?

From Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening": "The only other sound's the sweep / Of easy wind and downy flake." What mood do these lines create?

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening": "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep,". The lines draw the reader into the dark woods. Which word names the SPEAKER'S attitude instead?