Frost uses the setting of a lake surrounded by a forest to convey a feeling of peace and of being alone to the reader. A man is sitting on the edge of the lake, crying out for someone, his echo being his only company. After time, a buck swam across the lake and appeared on the shore and abruptly runs into the brush, away from sight. Although the man only caught a glimpse of the deer for a short moment, it was long enough for him to feel that he was no longer alone, but had something there, even though it was not tangible.

The clues given to the reader that someone has passed on are the words "wake" and three lines down, the word "morning." A wake can be many things; one is that it is a vigil that is held in honor o

In the beginning of the poem Frost is crying out, trying to find something to fulfill his loneliness. By the end, he has found something to lessen the pain of his loss, but it is fleeting. Although, it was able to ring Frost to the realization that he was not alone, but what he was looking for is always around him.

One also develops the impression that Frost is mourning a great loss, such as a spouse or soul mate, because of the line, "He would cry out on life, that what it wants/ Is not its own love back in copy speech/ But counter-love." That quote shows the reader that the man was alone, so alone, that he "cried out on life" asking for it to give his lost love back. He doesn't want to love someone who agrees with him wholly, and had no ideas of their own, but someone who is articulate, and has opinions of their own. He wants someone he could talk to and love for who they are, not who they try to be. He had this in his lost love, and now he has no one to share his feelings and emotions with.

Frost does not give a tangible identity to what he was looking for. He uses the term "

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