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Robert Frost "In Neglect" An Essay

It is clear that the boy believes the teachers had expected more of them and have now demonstrated that they were "mistaken." The addressee actually reminds me of myself, of my relation to the mischievous boy in my school. But I was never sent to the corner or punished with the boy in my school, and the addressee in this poem is most likely the other boy who has been punished and with the speaker been sent to "the wayside nook." After all the speaker refers to "us," so it must be that the addressee is his partner in crime, so to speak. The tone of the speaker ranges from honest assessment to ironic and humorous revelation. The tone of honesty is heard in the first half of the poem, as the speaker considers not his own actions but those of the teacher (and places the greater fault on the authority, who he feels has "left" them). The tone...

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Even if this is the case, however, one thing is certain: the poem's tone is accepting (in the sense that the speaker accepts his situation) rather than remorseful (in the sense that the speaker regrets what he has done).

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