1. The Draft Horse by Robert Frost
A well-known example is his work in The Draft Horse: a narrative poem that at a first glance, is simply about a random act of violence where two people travelling through "a pitch-dark limitless grove" (4) are suddenly approached by an unknown man who "came out of the trees took our horse by the head [and] deliberately stabbed him dead.... The narrative flow of the poem is continuous until the moment the horse is "stabbed dead" (8). ... Referencing to the "lantern that wouldn't burn" (1) and the "frail buggy" (2) in the opening stanza, Frost...
- Word Count: 943
- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: Undergraduate