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You can be certain,Ģ7When he begins like that, there’s someone at himĢ8Trying to coax him off with pocket-money,-Ģ9In haying time, when any help is scarce.ģ0In winter he comes back to us. ‘Be kind,’ she said.ĨShe took the market things from Warren’s armsĩAnd set them on the porch, then drew him downġ1‘When was I ever anything but kind to him?ġ2But I’ll not have the fellow back,’ he said.ġ4If he left then, I said, that ended it.ġ5What good is he? Who else will harbor himġ7What help he is there’s no depending on.ġ8Off he goes always when I need him most.ġ9He thinks he ought to earn a little pay,Ģ1So he won’t have to beg and be beholden.Ģ2“All right,” I say, “I can’t afford to payĢ3Any fixed wages, though I wish I could.”Ģ4“Someone else can.” “Then someone else will have to.”Ģ6If that was what it was. ‘Silas is back.’ĦShe pushed him outward with her through the doorħAnd shut it after her. When she heard his step,ģShe ran on tip-toe down the darkened passageĤTo meet him in the doorway with the newsĥAnd put him on his guard.

Read the full text of “The Death of the Hired Man”ġMary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the tableĢWaiting for Warren.

Frost wrote "The Death of the Hired Man" in 1905 or 1906 and later included the poem in his 1914 collection North of Boston. Frost's own life was plagued by loss-his father died when he was a child, for example, and his mother died shortly afterward-so this poem's melancholy tone and pessimistic ending may have been informed by his own experiences with grief and illness. Frost is best known for his depictions of New England but was fascinated by the dynamics of rural life, and "The Death of the Hired Man" sees him explore many of the social and political dynamics that characterize his work more broadly: issues of class, compassion, and morality. By the time Warren relents, it's too late: Silas has died.

The wife, Mary, pities the now terminally ill Silas, while the husband, Warren, is reluctant to give him another chance.

Robert Frost's "The Death of the Hired Man" details a tense conversation between a farmer and his wife, who are debating whether or not to let their old farmhand, Silas, return to the farm after breaking his earlier contract.