In the poem The Lockless Door, by Robert Frost, one can tell that the speaker wants to be alone. He uses a phrase to make this point. This phrase is ‘So at a knock/ I emptied my cage'. This phrase shows how the speaker runs away from his home because he has a visitor. That is the literal language of the poem.
The speaker also uses a lot of imagery in his poem. Almost all of the lines can be used in the form of an image. The first line can be portrayed as a calendar and the fourth can be a door with no lock. In the third stanza, an open window can be used. In the fifth stanza, one could use something like a chat bubble to portray someone yelling. As for the last stanza, one could use an empty cage, a map of the world, and an old man.
The Lockless Door also has a symbolic meaning. Summarizing the poem, it means how the speaker wanted to live a lonely life. It then says that someone came to the speaker's house, and the speaker waited for them to go away. But they wouldn't, so the speaker ran away from his own home just to be alone in the world for the rest of his life.
My reaction to this poem is to wonder why the speaker wanted to be alone. There could be many, including a troubled childhood or the fact that all of his family might be dead. I can vaguely relate to this poem because I can remember countless times when I wanted to be alone in my room. Although this is true, I have never had the urge to run away just to be by myself for the rest of my life.
