Overhead Questions for Robert Frost's

"The Gift Outright"

1) Why was the land "ours before we were the land's" ? To which "land" did early settlers belong?

2) How could the colonials "possess what we were still unpossessed by" ?

3) In what surrended did colonials take part in order to give themselves the "gift outright" ?

4) What was the vague land stil "unstoried, artless, unchanged" ?

5) Does the term "artless" have more than one meaning ? Could people be unstoried, artless, unenhanced?

6) How does the poem suggest America's Manifest Destiny?