Frost: with all one end

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Marius Hancu - 28 Feb 2010 12:24 GMT

Hello:

"No more it opened with all one end
For teams"
does it mean:
"No more it opened _completely on/at_ one end
For teams"

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The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
...
The barn opposed across the way, 5
That would have joined the house in flame
Had it been the will of the wind, was left
To bear forsaken the place’s name.

No more it opened with all one end
For teams that came by the stony road 10
To drum on the floor with scurrying hoofs
And brush the mow with the summer load.

Robert Frost, p. 241
http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/wortham/171B/MaterialsForWeb-site/need_of_be
ing_versed_in_country_.htm

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Thanks.
Marius Hancu

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John Dean - 28 Feb 2010 12:37 GMT

> Hello:
>
[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
> Robert Frost, p. 241
> http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/wortham/171B/MaterialsForWeb-site/need_of_be
ing_versed_in_country_.htm

At a guess the entire end wall of the barn was hinged and served as a
gigantic door.

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John Dean
Oxford

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Marius Hancu - 28 Feb 2010 12:52 GMT

> > "No more it opened with all one end
> > For teams"
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> > To drum on the floor with scurrying hoofs
> > And brush the mow with the summer load.

> At a guess the entire end wall of the barn was hinged and served as a
> gigantic door.

Ah, possible.

Thank you.
Marius Hancu

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Peter Duncanson (BrE) - 28 Feb 2010 13:57 GMT

>> > "No more it opened with all one end
>> > For teams"
[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
>
>Ah, possible.

It is also possible that there was a double door arrangement.

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Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)

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Frost: with all one end