How does ( Two tramps in the mud) develope a character in the story?

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anonymous · Answer

Well the first thing is its length and use of stanzas. Each stanza centers around a particular image or idea - for example, the third stanza is a rumination of the weather, and then the fourth stanza is a progression towards a bluebird contemplating the weather. Each stanza is a progression of the last stanza - the story is told by Frost layering a new concept or picture on the reader in every stanza. More and more of the woodcutter's emotions and dilemmas are revealed. 

Frost also uses countless opposites to depict the philosophical war occurring in the narrator. In the poem, we are held in the tension of opposing forces: winter and spring, warmth and cold, mental deliberation and physical labor, have and have not, work and play; aggression and self-discipline.

This poem is obviously too much to cover in a few paragraphs, but I hope this was a good starting point.