A summery of the poem Reluctance by Robert Frost

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Please im badly stuck after stanza 3 analyz , can any one do a stanza by stanza summery

Reluctance

Out through the fields and the woods

And over the walls I have wended;

I have climbed the hills of view

And looked at the world, and descended;

I have come by the highway home,

And lo, it is ended.

The leaves are all dead on the ground,

Save those that the oak is keeping

To ravel them one by one

And let them go scraping and creeping

Out over the crusted snow,

When others are sleeping.

And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,

No longer blown hither and thither;

The last lone aster is gone;

The flowers of the witch hazel wither;

The heart is still aching to seek,

But the feet question "Whither?"

Ah, when to the heart of man

Was it ever less than a treason

To go with the drift of things,

To yield with a grace to reason,

And bow and accept the end

Of a love or a season?

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This poem may have been written by the poet when was in old age. At least, not until after he'd had time in his life to feel love and to lose it. But the ending or winding down of life, with the imagery of the dying season (fall to winter) seems to be a great big metaphor for that.

The point comes at the end. Even though the poet knows he has done what he wanted to do in life - to love, to see this and that, to smell the proverbial flowers, and to go home again, he knows he can't truly be content. He can't be satisfied, because in his heart, he knows that to just accept the slow decline of things, the fact that they will not be getting better or more exciting anmore, is a thought that anyone with spirit can only rebel against! He can't accept that reality, because he is spirited. His heart always tells him, "explore more, find more that is good, keep going." That is why he is reluctant to accept the end of those things.

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Thank you
Some critiques suggest becouse the poem was published after the rejection by elinor
he comes back From his long journy / his journy is ended