In this case the title is “The definitive gift”. When you first encounter this title, you make the logical leap to question the specifics of what the gift is. Upon further investigation of the poem, the first lines that coincide with the idea of ​​a gift are lines twelve and thirteen: "As we were, we gave ourselves outright / (The act of giving was many deeds of war) " (Frost 12-13). The word “given” is associated with giving gifts, so Frost uses it to almost explicitly announce that the gift is ourselves. However, when Frost begins line thirteen and mentions that gift giving is the same thing as war giving, it causes one to question the previous line, line twelve. Frost links both the gift of self and the gift of war together to bring out the master gift of sacrifice for one's nation. Frost details actions during the American Revolution, when several men offered themselves as an act of sacrifice during that war; and through the war, in relation to the theme, nationalism was