Once by the Pacific

The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
By Robert Frost

Robert Frost poems, “Once by the Pacific,” fluently speaks to the reader through personification and smooth movement from one line to another line. Imagery also is used throughout the poem like, “The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,” but personification is mainly used, “the water never did to land before.” Over all the poem is well crafted and Frost is yet again a talent poet.

Robert Frost’s use of personification in “Once by the Pacific,” is strong and evident. The sea comes to live within the poem showing human qualities and ideas. The ocean seam almost angry as if a storm is brewing due to the “dark intent…of the night,” this strong use of personification lets the reader have a personal connection with a nonliving subject. There is also a direct connection with the angry sea and the people because a mad sea will affect them with all its rage.