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House Fear
By: Robert Frost
Always--I tell you this they learned-Always at night when they returned
To the lonely house from far away
To lamps unlighted and fire gone gray,
They learned to rattle the lock and key
To give whatever might chance to be
Warning and time to be off in flight:
And preferring the out- to the in-door night,
They learned to leave the house-door wide
Until they had lit the lamp inside.
Analysis: I believe that this poem from Frost connects to the home Tyler lives in. While
Tyler does not actually live in fear of something, when he is inside, he is alone. The relationship
between Tyler and his fathers relationship continued to break throughout Twisted, and until the
end of the story was not going in a somewhat decent direction. Tylers father was very
unpredictable, and was stressed about his job throughout the entire story. Mr. Miller never
seemed to care about his family, including Tyler, until something put him in danger. The Miller
house was broken, and this resulted in house fear for Tyler. Frost does include a rhyme scheme in
the poem. The rhyme scheme is A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D, E, E. The consistency of this rhyme
scheme makes it easier for the reader to follow and understand.