The poem “October” has a theme like every other poem. The theme of this poem is the month of October. The author of the poem Robert Frost talks about what the trees look like during this month. The line “Release one leaf at break of day; at noon release another leaf;” meaning that the leaves fall from trees during October. Another line that proves that the theme of this poem is about October is the line” O hushed October morning mild”. This line means that October mornings are cool, cold, and quiet. The line “Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all” also proves that the theme of this poem is October. The line says that when the strong wind of October comes tomorrow it will knock out all the leaves on the trees that are there right now. The theme of the poem “October” is the month of October.

            The Poem October has a lot of meaning. The meaning of the poem is that the speaker of the poem wants the day in October to go slow. The speaker of the poem thinks that the day is going too fast and wishes to slow it down. The line “Begin the hours of this day slow” says that the speaker wants the morning of this day to go slow. The line “Make the day seem to us less brief” says that the speaker thinks the day is going too fast and wants to make the day slower than normal. This proves that the speaker want the day to go slow and not fast.

            The poem “October” has a speaker and tone just like every poem does. The speaker in this poem has to be someone who enjoys October and wants it to last forever. The speaker in the poem enjoys the cool morning air and says that he wants the morning hours to go slow. This probably means that the speaker likes the morning more than any other part of day. So you can conclude that the speaker in this poem has to be someone who likes October, to be specific the mornings of October. The tone that the poem expresses is calm. The poem is calm because of the time of day the poem takes place in. in this poem the time of day is in the morning. Another reason why this poem is calm is because the author choses calm words like hushed. The tone in this poem is calm.

            The poem “October” also features a lot of figurative language and repition. The line” Beguile us in the way you know” is personification meaning making a non-human like object having human like qualities. The line is personification because it personifies the nature as person. Nature cannot teach us and is not human like so it is personification. This poem also features repetion. “O hushed October morning mild” is repetion because it is repeated a few times throughout the poem. The poem also has end rhyme. Lines 2 and 4 have end rhyme, fall and all.