David Frost

Born David Paradine Frost

7 April 1939
Tenterden, Kent, England
Died 31 August 2013 (aged 74)
MS Queen Elizabeth, Mediterranean Sea
Education Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Occupation •Television presenter
• journalist
• comedian
• writer
Known for •That Was the Week That Was
• Through the Keyhole
• Breakfast with Frost
• Frost on Sunday
• TV-AM
Frost during an interview • The Nixon Interviews
with Donald Rumsfeld in Spouse(s) •Lynne Frederick
2005 (m. 1981; div. 1982)
•Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard (m. 1983)
Children 3 (including Wilfred Frost)
The Death of the Hired Man, narrative poem
by Robert Frost, published in North of
Boston in 1914. The poem, written in blank
verse, consists of a conversation between the
farmer Warren and his wife, Mary, about
their former farmhand Silas, an elderly man
who has come “home” to their farm to die.
Silas’s plight is poignantly presented, and
the characterizations of home as “where,
when you have to go there, /They have to
take you in” and “Something you somehow
haven’t to deserve” are well known.
 In Robert Frost's poem, “The Death of the Hired Man,”
the theme of the poem that the author attempts to portray is the
need to forgive and accept people for who they are before it is
too late; Frost presents this to the reader through structural,
poetic, and metrical devices.
 The significance of most of Robert Frost’s life having been spent
in the New England area is because for many of his poems but
especially for his poem, “The Death of the Hired man”, the setting
is in New England (Bloom 1). Also, for the poem, “The Death of
the Hired Man”, which is based on a farm in New England and its
family, Frost uses personal experience in writing the poem
because he has lived, worked, and owned a farm in New England
(Bouchard 3). The significance of the setting and characters in
this poem is that he “presents speakers who are marked by
extraordinary severity and power”
 "The Death of the Hired Man" is a long poem
primarily concerning a conversation, over a short
time period in a single evening, between a farmer
(Warren) and his wife (Mary) about what to do
with an ex-employee named Silas, who helped
with haymaking and left the farm at an
inappropriate time after being offered "pocket
money", now making his return during winter
looking like "a miserable sight" having "changed".
Marry
Warren
Silas
Harold Wilson
 The dialogue occurs whilst Silas is "asleep beside
the stove. / When I came up from Rowe's I found
him here, / Huddled against the barn door fast
asleep, / a miserable sight, and frightening, too - /
You needn't smile – I didn’t recognize him - / I
wasn’t looking for him – and he's changed. / Wait
till you see." Despite his obvious poor health, Silas
wants to help Warren and Mary with the next
haymaking season.
The poem's setting is inside a house on a farm
where a man named Warren and his wife
Mary live. Mary is waiting for Warren at their
dinner table to tell him the news that Silas is
back.
1. What do you think is the
main reason why Silas
come back despite of his
condition?
Answer: Silas said he returned to ditch the
meadow and clear the upper pasture. He had
really returned to die. He called their place
"home" because he knew that they would take
care of him.
2. Do you think Mary is sincere
in helping Silas? Cite some
lines to prove your contention.
Answer: Yes. Here some line of marry “warren,
I wish you could have heard the way he
jumbled everything. It shook me up. I stopped
to look two or three times to see if he was
talking in his sleep. He ran on and on about
Harold Wilson— you remember Harold? The
boy you had haying about four years ago.”
3. If you were Warren in the
story, would you react the
same? Why or why not?
Answer: Yes. because I can’t trust him
immediately because he made sin at me but in
the end I will forgive him because every
person can chance.
 4. Are the reasons of Mary good
enough to change Warren’s
decision?
Answer: Yes. I learned lesson in the novel “the death of the
hired man” is to forgive and give a second chance no matter
how much a person has wronged you or no matter how much
he has done wrong or whether he has hurt your feelings can
also forget the sins he has committed against you and
forgive him and give him a second chance “The lord has
forgiven you, so you also must forgive” Colossians 3:13
Accept, forgive and move on, life goes on!