A time to talk by Robert Frost

                                                                                                        

                       Robert Frost writes “A time to talk”. A short but meaningful poem that everyone should read. We should all take something away from “A time to talk” and learn something from it. It’s about not only about friendship but getting caught up in life.

                          As I read the poem I realize it’s a poem that everybody can relate to. People in this world are so distracted by numerous stuff like school, work or even playing games that we get too distracted for our friends.” When a friend calls to me from the road/And slows his horse to a meaning walk”(1-2) Robert is talking about a when one of his friend comes around and wants to talk. He doesn’t refuse even though he still has work to do on the hill as he refer in the poem “I don't stand still and look around/On all the hills I haven't hoed”(3-4). He doesn’t say he is annoyed but u can get a sense of it when you read “And shout from where I am, 'What is it?”(5). When he says he “I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground”(6) means that he will leave what he is doing behind to talk to his friend. It gets interesting when in the poem he thrust his tool into the ground and “Blade-end up and five feet tall”(7) meaning that maybe he will try an have a short conversation, keeping the business end up as the blade is. After he states that he plod which is walking with slowly and heavy steps could mean that he is upset or just tired. He goes up to the stone wall where they are separated “And plod: I go up to the stone wall /For a friendly visit”(8-9).