...picture Me myself in the summer heaven, god-like, Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud-puffs. Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb, I...clear water. One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripjjle Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom, Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?...

...picture Me myself in the summer heaven, god-like, Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud-puffs. Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb, I...something white, uncertain, Something more of the depths—and then I lost it. Water came to rebuke the too clear water. One drop fell from a fern, and...

...shining surface picture Me myself in the summer heaven, godlike, 5 Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs. Once, when trying with chin against...Something more of the depths — and then I lost it. 10 Water came to rebuke the too clear water. One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple Shook whatever...

...does not allow him to look deeper. After mending that mistake the poet comes to see something clear: I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture, Through...something white, uncertain, Something more of the depths 37 Very soc na ripple shakes the entire vision. Everything becomes blurred. At last the poet asks the...

...a shining surface picture Me myself in the summer heaven, godlike, Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs. Once, when trying with chin against...something white, uncertain, Something more of the depths—and then I lost it. Water came to rebuke the too clear water. One drop fell from a fern, and...

...lot of time for'14 offers a moment of hermeneutic ambiguity as the poet peers into a semiopaque well: Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb, I...uncertain, Something more of the depths — and then lost it. One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple Water came to rebuke the too clear water. Shook...

...a shining surface picture 5 Me myself in the summer heaven godlike Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs. Once, when trying with chin against...Through the picture, a something white, uncertain, 10 Something more of the depths — and then I lost it. Water came to rebuke the too clear water. One...

...a shining surface picture Me myself in the summer heaven, godlike, Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs. Once, when trying with chin against...Something more of the depths — and then I lost it. Robert Frost, "For Once, then, Something" (91) There is an oft-repeated and rather cheap gibe that...

...the twin images in Frost's poem. It is when, even if only once, uncertainly, possibly, and vaguely, I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture, Through...Something more of the depths — and then I lost it. But, I would ask, if the poet's face is white, how did it see "through the picture" of itself "a something...

...line. In the second part of the poem Frost lets the speaker have a "fleeting glimpse of something": "Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb, / I discerned, as I thought beyond the picture." From the very moment the protagonist contemplates this something, the poem becomes more and more ambiguous....