Yet if he encountered one Of the hive's enquiry squad Whose work is to find out God And the nature of time and space, He would put him onto the case. Ants are a curious race; One crossing with hurried tread The body of one of their dead Isn't given a moment's arrest- Seems not even impressed.
But he no doubt reports to any With whom he crosses antennae, And they no doubt report To the higher-up at court. Will the special Janizary Whose office it is to bury The dead of the commissary Go bring him home to his people. Lay him in state on a sepal. Wrap him for shroud in a petal. Embalm him with ichor of nettle. This is the word of your Queen.
No one stands round to stare. Frost presents the ant colony as a miniature society and thus reveals the resemblance between the stultifying effects of departmentalism among men and the blindly mechanical operators of insect life. That ant does not feel any surprissed at the sight of monster moth because he was given to do a specific duty. In the same way the modern world doesn't care with unusual events because is doesn't come in the way of doing duty.
This type of sense is not found in the present day of 'Departmental'. Summing up it is true to say that the attitude of modern society is very well depicted in the poem. It should be noted that no one had regarded Jerry as an important individual when he was alive, so now no one cares about his death and everything is accepted as matter of act.
No one round to stare. It is nobody else 's affair. It couln't be called ungentle. But how throughly departmental. Copyright c literatureadda4 All Right Reseved. Subscribe Us. Literature adda. Tags Americal Literature Immediately a grave-looking undertaker appears on the scene and takes the formal position with feelers calmly spread and turns over the dead by the middle of his body and throws him high in the air to carry him away. No ant is to stand and watch all this, since it is nobody else's affair.
The attitude of the other ants adopted towards one of their dead can't be called 'ungentle' or unmannerly. But it shows how disciplined and organized these ants really are. This comic poem written in light mood is highly satirical about certain institutions or organizations claiming to be 'departmental' and disciplined.
As stated above in the beginning of this poem. It is a satire on the orderliness, "a criticism of standardization". It is in the form of an ant-fable.
Ants are typically known for their industry and movement in groups. They represent the useless brain draining search of the so-called philosophers who wear and tire out themselves in making the mysteries of God, time and space, known to man. The poem is "a warning that the ant-order, if brought into the human way of existence, would kill the very spirit behind living.
They are always on the move, doing something or the other by way of habit, and business. Despite the satirical tone of the, poem, which is so much clear in it, it should not mislead the reader to believe that the poet has any special lesson to impart herein. One should take it easy, read it lightly, and enjoy it fully— that's all. One may not resist praising the imaginable thinking of the poet who is trying to evolve an analogy, though in a very refined manner, between the ants and the mankind.
A didactic poem, usually adopts a direct and unambiguous tone in expression which Frost does not-display here. He has rather adopted, consciously perhaps, equivocation. One is not sure whether, at the end of the poem, the poet is simply stating a fact or he is ridiculing the ants. This is the closing couplet.
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