Fear
... These two poems are “Design” and “House Fear. ... “Design” and “House Fear” are two poems that tell of unique images of the surroundings that are suddenly pulled into a plot full of uncertainty and dread. ... Images in this poem are told in vivid detail much like “House Fear.” The images in “House Fear” are a genuine perspective to the poem throughout the reading. ... In the Poem “House Fear,” Robert Frost portrays the anxiety of a couple coming home to something residing in their home. ... The author uses imagery, ambiguity, and sound to emphasize the feelings these people have every night as they open the door and allow whatever it is that is in the house to “be off in flight”(Frost “House Fear” 7). ... For example the lines, “Always at night when they returned to the lonely house from far away,”(Frost “House Fear” 2,3) are filled with imagery that allows the reader to assume and visualize a number of things. The residents of a country home return “always at night”(Frost “House Fear” 2) because of the distance they must travel. The word “night”(Frost “House Fear” 2) is placed in such a position as to create a dark atmosphere throughout the entire poem.