Robert Frost: Poems

The Death of the Hired Man

How does Silas feel about Harold Wilson, the college boy who helped with the haying?  

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Warren has not seen Silas in his ill state and, still angry over the contract that Silas broke when them in the past, does not want to have Silas on his property. Mary’s compassionate urging eventually convinces him, but when Warren goes to get Silas, he is already dead.

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