The Gift Outright
Poetry
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Robert Frost
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The Gift Outright
By Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The land was ours before we were the land’s.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people. She was ours
In Massachusetts, in Virginia,
But we were England’s, still colonials,
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found out tha...
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The Gift of Outright key Facts
Publication: "The Gift Outright" was first published in 1942 as part of Robert Frost's collection titled "A Witness Tree." The collection won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1943.
Theme: The poem explores themes of national identity, history, and the concept of ownership.
Verse: Blank Verse.
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The Gift Outright Summary
In this poem, the poet describes the history of America from the colonial period, when the country was part of the British colony.
Here the poet is talking about the colonial rulers who came to rule America. But they could not accept America as their land. They struggled with national identity as they didn’t want to return to Britain, and this fact made them weak mentally. Later they surrendered t...
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