The Flood by Robert Frost

Blood has been harder to dam back than water.
Just when we think we have it impounded safe
Behind new barrier walls (and let it chafe!),
It breaks away in some new kind of slaughter.
We choose to say it is let loose by the devil;
But power of blood itself releases blood.
It goes by might of being such a flood
Held high at so unnatural a level.
It will have outlet, brave and not so brave.
weapons of war and implements of peace
Are but the points at which it finds release.
And now it is once more the tidal wave
That when it has swept by leaves summits stained.
Oh, blood will out. It cannot be contained.

This is quite an interesting poem because of its dark imagery and the meaning behind it, and it is because of all these reasons I like it a lot. The poem compares blood to several things. First Frost says that blood is something harder to dam back than water and is something released by the devil. From this, I believe it can be inferred that Frost is trying to compare the blood to war. Later in the poem, Frost says that the blood has the capabilities of being a flood in which using the inference, it can be understocked that Frost is trying to compare the flood to war spreading throughout the entire world. This idea is further backed up by the phrases , " The power of blood releases blood," and " weapons of war and implements of peace are but the points at which it finds releases," both of which describe war, as war only brings more war, and weapons and attempts at peace are more characteristics of it. In conclusion, the way Frost uses his diction to cleverly craft blood to be compared to a flood of war is really quite interesting and the lovely content makes the poem all the more better.