Guide Questions - Robert Frost poem

"Directive"

1) Why is "now" too much for us?

2) What is the time which the speaker "retreats to" ?

3) Provide details of the place. (Describe the road, the landscape, the cellar holes.)

4) Where were the woods twenty years ago? What have the trees shaded out?

5) Who once lived along the road?

6) What were the "two village cultures", now lost, that faded into each other?

7) Why does the children's house make the speaker weep?

8) What is "the house that is no more a house" ?

9) What was the water of the house? How does it differ from valley strealms?

10) What did the speaker hide? What is the spell?