Caleb-
While it is not clear that the wife is unhappy with her husband, I think it is very clear she is unhappy with her situation, its isolation and dangers, real or imagined.
Ergwall-
Just because Caleb is not reading the same things into this poem that most of us are, there is no reason to call him an alien. Just say that his interpretation is wrong.
I had to read Frost in high school, and I didn't much like his bucolic poems. I prefered Sandberg, Kipling, and especially Ogden Nash. When I reread his poems about 10 years ago, I was struck with their elegance and precision.
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