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THE TELEPHONE by ROBERT FROST

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN I WAS JUST AS FAR AS I COULD WALK
Last Line: "WELL, SO I CAME."
Subject(s): LOVE; LOVE - MARITAL; MARRIAGE; TELEPHONES; WEDDED LOVE; MARRIAGE - LOVE; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;

"When I was just as far as I could walk
From here to-day,
There was an hour
All still
When leaning with my head against a flower
I heard you talk.
Don't say I didn't, for I heard you say --
You spoke from that flower on the window sill --
Do you remember what it was you said?"

"First tell me what it was you thought you heard."

"Having found the flower and driven a bee away,
I leaned my head,
And holding by the stalk,
I listened and I thought I caught the word --
@3What@1 was it? Did you call me by my name?
Or did you say --
@3Someone@1 said 'Come' -- I heard it as I bowed."

"I may have thought as much, but not aloud."

"Well, so I came."



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