DDCPoetry

I feel this is a straight forward poem by Frost even from the title, "A Time to Talk."  The poem focuses on why it's a good time to talk from a "friendly visit" instead of whatever needs to go on in life: responsibilities and burdens. However, this poem seems the most Frost on topic, but the least on form and structure.  Unlike his other other poems "The Road Not Taken"  or Acquainted with the Night , this poem seems free of consistent rhymes and meter, but I think that's for the advantage of the subject of the poem. The poem starts with the situation, "When a friend calls to me from the road / And slows his horse to a meaning walk, " in which the speaker has to respond.  But the poem turns into a definition of what not to do, "I don't stand still and look around / On all the hills I haven't hoed," The speakers pushes away thoughts of obligation they need to continue with. Furthermore, the speaker then pushes away the id...