Robert Frosts Love and a Question :: Love and a Question

Robert Frosts adore and a Question      Robert Frosts verse has a confortable and well-known(prenominal) nature at first glance, moreover this author is known for transaction with human tragedies and fears often in a symbolic manner.  He uses poetry to express his reaction to the complexities of life and his acceptance of his burdens.  Although his work is rooted in New England region, he is a far reaching poet whos work spans metaphysical and psychological topics.  One can often nonice these under the spring up of minute details that are characteristic of most of his work.        In Love and a Question, a rummy inquires about shelter for the night in the bridal house.  The bridegroom is the one that has to make the decision whether or not he should be allowed inside.  One reason why he would not want him inside is because this is somewhat of a honeymoon stay.  The brides face was chromatic with the glowing coal and the thought of the hearts desire.  At the beginning of the fourth stanza, he must make the decision whether to let this man in or continue the night of pleasure with his wife.  Normally, the bridegroom is apathetic towards the rich and the poor, but as he looked at the weary road, he placed himself in the shoes of that stranger.  He tries to imagine how dificult it must be for this man to brook without a home, especially tonight, when winter was in the wind.  He stares back at himself, and how fortunate he is to project wedded such a woman.  He wished her heart in a case of gold and pinned with a cash pin.  This means that he respects and loves her very deeply.  He realizes that you dont know what you have until you lose it.  He feels sudden sympathy with this deprived stranger, and wants to help him in some manner.       Another interpretation is as follows.  The grooms enigma could be that he is not certain whether he did the right thing by marrying.  The stranger would then be symbolic of his feelings towards his wife, and the weary road ahead, without a windowpane light, in the winter wind, could represent their life as he viewed it.