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Clare Clifford and John Miller English 102 18 January, 2000 In poems like "The Wood Pile" Frost gives the impression that humanity is the source of order in the world. Ironically, however, for all its rage for order, humanity seems to be able to achieve such ord ....

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.... At the outset of the poem, the narrator gives a very superficial view of himself, almost seeming angered when one of the tramps interferes with his wood chopping: "one of them put me off my aim". This statement, along with many others, seems to focus on "me" or "my", indicating the apparrent selfishness and arrogance of the narrator: "The blows that a life of self-control/Spares to strike for the common good/That day, giving a loose to my soul,/I spent on the unimportant wood." The narrator refers to releasing his suppressed anger not upon evils that threaten "the common good", but upon the "unimportant wood". The appparent arrogance of ....