The Gift Outright by Robert Frost

                        The Gift Outright

The Gift Outright by Robert Frost deals with a serious Issus of the united states (US). It is about a constant conflict going on between the native people of America and the settlers of colonizers, who made USA that permanent home. The poem is addressed by a descendent of the settlers and it is addressed to the native community. The poem is infect a request of the descendent to the native people to accept the settlers as one part of native community.

The poem opens with the tone of request in which the descendant of settlers says that he has accepted that country as his motherland, but still he has not been accepted as a native by the people of that country. The descendant considers every state of the US as his home but still he is treated as a colonized and as an outsider by the people of that country. It is this different which pains the descendant.

The descendent admits that for a long span of time he himself and many other descendent remain aloof did not mix with the native community. But now a change has come in the attitude of the descendent and he has surrendered to the native people. The settlers have realized that there is no salvation for them if there is no surrender from their side. This descendent in the present poem would like to offer himself as if gift to the native people. His request to the native people is to see that he is accepted as a gift and not rejected.

The present poem can be considered a polite request of the descendent of colonizers to accept all descendent as the native people of America. He agrees that in the past many conflicts and wars have taken place but that has not sold the problem of conflict between the native people and colonizers. So he wants to offer himself as a gift to the native people. The descendents of colonizers may be artless, without any story of their own, but he would be happy if he is accepted as gift. Robert Frost himself experienced this conflict between the native and the settlers and here he tries to give a solution to that problem. The problem of conflict between native and colonizers can we solved only with love. Violence has no place in it.