GATHERING LEAVESSpades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a crop is a crop, And who's to say where The harvest shall stop? . Robert Frost
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The above poem is about gathering leaves or twigs. Some of the lines are difficult to understand but they are about the experience of coming across some leaves and building up a pile. It is about how some people try so hard to gather leaves but the pile becomes too heavy, so heavy that it becomes useless. The whole purpose of this poem is to express how some people try hard to gather up all of these things and they end up feeling very disappointed when they look at what they have loaded.

This poem is very important because it teaches us that sometimes we can miss more than we expect. We can miss more than we think we will ever get.

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