The Poem To the Thawing Wind By Robert Frost relates to weather in many ways. The first line states a type of precipitation; Come with rain. O loud Southwester! Rain, in many ways is revered by many ancient communities, and this type of precipitation is often both helpful and harmful. Without the precipitating word, the poem doesn't lose its meaning. After all, the poem only mentions weather once. The poet's knowledge about weather, as I said, does not enhance the poem in any way. You could replace rain with the stream, and the poem would still make sense, so weather does not, has not, and will not (maybe it will, if Frost is still alive) enhance the poem.
Robert Frost has a sense of rhythm, as do most other poets. In this specific poem, Frost used a common literary technique used in many other poems. The last words of each line rhymed. The last words of the first two lines rhymed, as did the last words of the next two. The pattern was: A
A
B
B
C
C... and so on. Since this poem only mentions weather once, to emphasize the first line, I personally did not find my knowledge of weather furthered.
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