Gift Outright by Robert Frost
This poem is written in 1936, it is
sonnet in iambic pentameter. Poem is addressed by descendant of white American
settlers who live in Virginia and Massachusetts, two states of America.
It deals with the serious issue of
United States of America, about a constant conflict going on between the native
people of America and settlers/colonizers that made U.S.A their permanent home.
It is in a form of request of settlers to native people to accept them as a
part of their native community.
“The land was ours before we were land”
Settler said that he accepts U.S as
motherland but still he has not been accepted as native by people of that
country. Still, they treat as colonizer or outsider that differences pains the
settlers.
“We were withholding from our land of living,
And forth found
salvation in surrender”
Settlers decide
to surrender themselves after remain aloof for long span. Change come in the
attitude of the settlers, they realized that there is no salvation for them if
they don’t surrender themselves. So, they offered as s gift to the native
people of an America and they hope that they are accepted as a gift not
rejected.
Frost
himself experienced this conflict and here he tries to give the solution to the
problem between natives and settlers, he said it can be solved only love,
violence has no place in it.
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