“New Hampshire” By Robert Frost

Optical illusions sometimes blur the line between what the mind perceives and what exists in reality: they warp one’s perception until the mind can clarify what it sees. Robert Frost’s poem, “New Hampshire”, from his collection of poems titled, New Hampshire, illustrates the power of mental perception over actuality. To illustrate the division between what one senses and what actually exists, the narrator alternates between the describing people she meets and describing the merits of New Hampshire and its surrounding states. The narrator begins by contradicting and questioning the travelers that she meets. Then, when given a choice between two behaviours, the narrator depicts both in a dualistic nature and attempts to address the reality of

Robert Frost was a famous poet and educator born in San Francisco in 1874 who made an impact on the literature known today. After high school, he attended college where he studied literature and poetry. During college, Frost began writing his own poems and in 1894, he had successfully published his first poem. Despite his many accomplishments, Frost faced a major downfall that could not be fulfilled by his success. One might expect that publishing his first poem might be a time of pride and joy, however, Frost was fighting his own battles of depression and mental illness.

Robert Frost takes our imagination to a journey through wintertime with 
his two poems "Desert Places" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". These two poems reflect the beautiful scenery that is present in the snow covered woods and awakens us to new feelings. Even though these poems both have winter settings they contain very different tones. One has a feeling of depressing loneliness and the other a feeling of welcome solitude. They show how the same setting can have totally different impacts on a person depending on 
their mindset at the time. These poems are both made up of simple stanzas and diction but they are not straightforward poems.

Frost uses a multitude of poetic devices, including metaphors, irony, symbolism, hyperbole, and personification “Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. to vividly reinforce the desolation in the mind and the surroundings of the speaker. The uncertainty of the time in the end is a reflection of the uncertainty in the duration of isolation that the speaker would have to continue to endure. In conclusion, this poem displays the transition into night figuratively as the author experiences a broken heart. I have been one acquainted with the night.” (V,2 ). This is a beautiful and dark poem that describes the somber emotions that an individual endures after a separation. This poem can be relatable to anyone as we all have experienced some type of sorrow. Hopefully after experiencing something of this nature we can see the bright lights after being acquainted with the

Dana Gioia argues in this analytical essay that Robert Frost was a narrative poet who left a modernist narrative legacy by writing ballads, linear narratives, dramatic monologues, and dramatic narratives. She provides a thorough description of Frost’s book North of Boston, and she describes the effects the book has had on the way poetry is now written. Gioia states that Frost’s ballads represent the weakest body of his poetic work. She also considers the language in Frost’s linear narratives as “modern and conversational” (4). Gioia makes visible that Frost typically avoided dramatic monologues. She attributes this to Frost’s tendency to write more modernistic poetry. Dramatic narratives are an important category of Frost’s poetry, and Gioia considers this category the largest and most original. She vividly

Robert Frost’s poem “Desert Places” diminishes an overall sense of emptiness to being nothing compared to what he holds within himself through the use of connotative diction. Throughout the poem, the description of a cold, dark night represents the intensity of the depression that Frost was feeling. In the final stanza, Frost reveals that “I have it in me so much nearer home, To scare myself with my own desert places”, “it” being the darkness previously mentioned in the poem. Furthermore, the “desert places” introduced in the final line are a representation of the dark emotions Frost was experiencing, and to state that they were within him, provide the sense that he did not express them to other people, meaning he chose to be left with a cold, dark state of mind. Overall, “Desert Places” is deemed as Frost’s admittance to not fearing the troubles of the rest of the world, because they could not cause him any greater pain that what his own troubles already have.

The poem is written in the first person perspective and talks about an experience he felt while walking through an empty field covered in snow. As he states, “All animals are smothered in their lairs” (Frost, 1936, line 6). He takes note that he is the only living creature out and about. He starts to feel a sense of loneliness. He states, “I am to absent spirited to count; the loneliness includes me unawares” (Frost, 1936, line 7-8). Apparently Frost suffers from some type depressive state if he was out walking around trying to find a remedy to his problem. If we take a look environmental stand point, he may be suffering from hypothermia, which could cause an altered mental status in his well-being.

First, having a knowledge of Frosts past is imperative. “In 1885 when he was 11, his father died of tuberculosis, leaving the family with just eight dollars. Frost's mother died of cancer in 1900. In 1920, he had to commit his younger sister Jeanie to a mental hospital, where she died nine years later” (Robert

In the poem, Frost indicates that he made the wrong decisions and took the wrong path’s by sarcastically using “making all the differences”.

Frost describes the little boy's work in the first two lines by saying the 'stove-length sticks of wood,' inferring the practical nature of his work. The mountains described in the next lines further add to the captive nature of the poem. Vermont provides a

Robert Frost starts out by showing readers the year and location; 1945, New England, Vermont. This is the period where World War I occurs, however, Frost does not describe the land destroyed and covered with dead bodies, instead Vermont is a place where exists; “Five Mountain ranges one behind the other under the sunset far into Vermont.” This makes readers understand that this place is located in a beautiful place out in the wilderness away from war. The location is very significant to the story, I have done a bit of research about Frosts life; Frost was forced to return to America due to the war in 1915, a war that would have killed hundreds of innocent little boys. With this being said, the reader now understands why the boy in the poem is located in a place like Vermont in a time of war, and why the boy in the

Robert Frost is the author of Out Out--, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Nothing Gold can Stay. His literary work communicates deep meaning through the use of metaphoric language and deception. Being raised most of his life on a farm; his works perceive the natural life of a normal person while out in nature. “Frost believes that the emphasis on everyday life allows him to communicate with his readers more clearly; they can empathize with the struggles and emotions that are expressed in his poems and come to a greater understanding of ‘Truth’ themselves” (Robert Frost: Poems Themes).

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “ The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.

This poem never had a chance to be published during Frost's life. The poem is pretty self-explanatory. To me it is obvious that it is written while he is in England. The mention of rain and watery breezes give it away because England is surrounded by water. I believe that Frost knew that he could make his career work in England. The line "The watery breeze came fresher now From over the hill to remind me" makes me think that England would give him new inspiration. Everything he did in

The great debate of whether the world will end in a fiery ball of destruction or a frozen wasteland has baffled the minds of many people. A man named Robert Frost has written a poem called "Fire and Ice" that describes his thoughts on how he would prefer to leave this world. Upon reading this poem, the reader can derive two distinct meanings of fire and ice; one being of actual fire and ice destroying the world, and the other having symbols for the fire and ice, such as fire being desire or passion and ice being hatred and deceit. Although this poem is one of his shortest poems with only nine lines, it is also one of the most famous works that he has ever created.