The first and second stanzas are mainly talking about how the poet sees the tree out of the window at night and keeps the curtain up and has a deep, subconscious and spirital conversation with it. In the first stanza, "My sash is lowered when night comes on" (Tree At My Window, Frost) means that the speaker notices the tree sufferering ffrom the storm and heavy wind outside at night. And then the speaker finds himself wants to look at the tree out of the window and "talk" to it. In the second stanza, the speaker talk about how the tree and him has a conversation on a silent night, after the tree struggles with the storm and the speaker worries about the dillema and anxiety inside. "Not all your tongues talking aloud/Could be profound" (Tree At My Window, Frost) describes a plot when the speaker and the tree are talking to each other but the voice is too low so that they cannot hear the every single word they speak.
In the rest of the stanzas "But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed/And if you have seen me when I slept/You have seen me when I was taken and swept/And all but lost" (Tree At My Window, Frost) talks about how the speaker has seen the tree suffering from the outside violent wind at night; the tree has also known the poet fell asleep in a state of disaster, dillema and worry. "That day she pit our heads together" means the fate connects the poet and the tree together. The tree is concerned about the harsh environment; in contrast, the poet worries about the anxiety in his mind. "Your head so much concerned with outer/ Mine with inner, weather" (Tree At My Window, Frost) show the difference between the tree and the speaker. And it reflects what the speaker thinks: he thought they are not alike, but actually the fate had already connected them because they had deep connections.
The figurative languages can be easily found in this poem. The most obvious one is personification, which describes a tree as an alive individual and considers the fate as a woman. Using personification makes the whole poem be more vivid and attractive. The poet describes the tree as a person who has something to worry about. This allows the poet to have a deep "conversation" with the tree because the poet is suffering from the dillema in his heart. Thanks to the fate, the common experience connects the poet and the tree, and thus the poet is able to feel peaceful and safe when staying with a tree.
Other literary techniques are consonance and assonance. In the first stanza, there are not clear figurative languages but only a repetition of the word "window". Then in the second stanza, the words in each lines, which are "ground", "cloud", "loud", and "profound", sound alike. And this is a type of rhyming style. And it's also an assonance of the vowel sound "ou". In the third stanza, words such as "slept" and "swept" sound similar, and there are repetitions of "s" and "t" letters. In the last stanza, the rhyme scheme is the "er" sound. Every last word in each line sounds alike. These make the whole poem clear and interesting and sound rhyming. Although there are 16 lines in total, it's still very easy to memorize.
Tree At My Window is really a short but fascinating poem. Robert Frost uses a simple way to perfectly reveal the good relationship between man and nature. Also, there are many great figurative languages which help memorize the whole poem. From the poem it seems like the poet rejects the decision made by the fate, who puts the poet himself and the tree together because he thinks they are not alike. The tree cares about the storms and heavy rain; the poet worries about the dillema and emotional changes. But the fate thinks she makes a right thing to put their "heads together" because they actually have a connection. And this is the main point of the poem: man and nature are connected and are able to understand each other. That is the magic of nature.
