Saturday, January 30, 2016

Does the poem "House Fear" by Robert Frost suggest that people often enjoy being frightened?"House Fear" by Robert Frost

In my opinion, I don't think so. The people in the poem
have developed a routine that they follow when returning home to a dark house in the
night that prevents them from being frightened or surprised. They do continue to return
to the house, even after they apparently have been frightened often enough to have
developed their pattern of actions to prevent the scare, but that may indicate that they
have no other place to go rather than that they enjoy being frightened. If the people
enjoyed being frightened, I don't think they would follow the same steps every time they
came home and prepared to enter the house, with the understanding that those steps would
allow "whatever might chance to be" to leave the house before they
entered.

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