"The Aim Was Song"

"The Aim Was Song" by Robert Frost

"The Aim Was Song" is a short poem written by Robert Frost. Robert Frost was a well-known poet who lived from 1874-1963. He is still widely known today for his many famous poems. By the 1920s he was on the rise as a poet and throughout his career he won four Pulitzer Prizes.
This is a short poem, only four stanzas. Structurally, this poem has 4 lines in each of the four stanzas. There is also a rhyme scheme. Throughout the poem, Frost portrays an interaction between a man and the wind. The title of the song links back to the poem as a whole because the aim of the wind is for it to sound like a song when it blows, and that is what the man is trying to teach the wind the whole time. Frost personifies the wind in this poem. The last line of the poem says," The aim was song-the wind could see". This line shows the personification of the wind because it gives the wind human characteristics by saying that the wind has sight. The personification creates a bond between the man and the wind. The literal meaning of this poem is the man trying to teach the wind how to blow so it sounds like a song. Frost most likely wrote this poem to portray a deeper meaning. The deeper meaning of the poem has to do with poetry as a whole. Frost is trying to show the reader that poetry is spontaneous just like the wind, but even though it is spontaneous, the poem always has a purpose.