Tree at my Window by Robert Frost

Poem

Tree at my window, window tree,
 My sash is lowered when night comes on;
 But let there never be curtain drawn
 Between you and me.

 Vague dream-head lifted out of the ground,
 And thing next most diffuse to cloud,
 Not all your light tongues talking aloud
 Could be profound.

 But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed,
 And if you have seen me when I slept,
 You have seen me when I was taken and swept
 And all but lost.

 That day she put our heads together,
 Fate had her imagination about her,
 Your head so much concerned with outer,
 Mine with inner, weather. 



Theme:

The theme of the poem is the relationship between human and nature and Individuality within the universe ...
Tree at My Window” differs from most of Frost’s nature poems in its locale. He closes his window at night, but out of love for the tree he does not draw the curtain. This is an unmistakably modern nature poem. Instead, he compares the conditions of human and tree. 

summery :



“Tree at My Window” differs from most of Frost’s nature poems in its locale. Instead of being out in the fields or woods, the speaker is looking out his bedroom window at a nearby tree. He closes his window at night, but out of love for the tree he does not draw the curtain. This is an unmistakably modern nature poem. Whereas the transcendentalists of the nineteenth century had regarded nature as profound, the speaker here specifically denies the possibility of the tree speaking wisdom. Instead, he compares the conditions of human and tree. He has seen the tree “taken and tossed” by storm, and if the tree can be imagined as having looked in at him asleep, it has seen him “taken and swept/ and all but lost.” That which brought them together is styled “fate”—but an imaginative fate, because of their respective concerns with “outer” and “inner weather.”

He sees the tree not as an instructor but as a comrade, a fellow sufferer. Between Frost and the transcendentalist faith in nature as a teacher lies a scientific revolution that denies the possibility of “sermons in stones,” and it is clear that the tree is physically, the person only metaphorically, storm-tossed. This metaphor, an old contrivance of poets, remains a potent one when used as freshly as it is here. The speaker’s storm is only a dream, but dreams can be deeply disturbing; psychologists insist that they may be very significant.

“Inner weather”...



Personification
The poet gives human characteristics to the tree. He compares the trees branches to a head. As well as the ruffles of the leaves from the wind as the trees own unique language. He also discusses the tossing and turning of the tree. 





anylisi
Each of these poems has the theme of nature and loneliness.
This poem is a comparison between the speaker and the tree outside his window. The poet draws the window curation at night to shut out the cold. But he never seems to close the curtains because that would isolate him from viewing the tree. He has seen the tree tossed by the winds and rain, and the tree has stood witness to the poet asleep, tossed by the storms of his dreams. So somehow they were Fated to be paired together; the tree bearing up against the outside weather, the poet bearing up against the inner weather of his dreams.

Its mean: The poet has seen the tree shaking and trembling under the violent movement of the wind. This symbolizes the ordeal, worries and dilemma in the tree’s life. The poet experiences similar tension and qualms. At this instance the point of difference between the poet and the tree aggravate.  There was not movement. When the tree saw the poet sleeping, in actually, he was taken and swept. All was lot, but there was no raffle and outward display of the ordeal.

On a metaphorical level the speaker of the poem stands for all men and the tree stands for all objects of nature .The tree is only affected by the outer weather and man is affected both by the external circumcise stances of   life and by the internal conditions of mind -- his thoughts  and imagination his worries and  frustration .
So the human being has some similarity and some dissimilarity with the object of nature .

From the poet;s point of view represented through the voice of speaker ,man is apparently a part of nature objects to be all beneficial for human beings