In Dives' Dive by Robert Frost, 1936

It is late at night and still I am losing.

But still I am steady and unaccusing.

As long as the Declaration guards

My right to be equal in number of cards,

I

It is nothing to me who runs the Dive.

Let's have a look at another five.

Questions:

1. What activity is the narrator of the poem describing?

2. How would you describe the mood of the narrator of the poem"? Explain.

3. Why might the word "Declaration" be capitalized?

4.

List two things from your knowledge that frost could be describing related to the great

depression