Robert Frost

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 is a great American poet that mastered the art of eloquently imprinting his readers with an overarching idea, or theme, through his use of symbolic language, precise picture painting, and metronome rhyme and meter. Frost addresses many different themes across his poems, but sometimes has similar methods of displaying his themes; three of the most prominent are the crossroads of a decision in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” the battle between desire and hate in “Fire and Ice,” and the loss of innocence in “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

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

In the second stanza, I see that the speaker wonders about what his horse is “thinking” which shows his interests are also in the outside world too, like his horse. He also takes certain pleasure seeing the scene from what he imagines to be his horse’s perspective. I think his horse is practical in nature, he thinks, while the speaker sits there dreaming, watching the snow fill up the woods. He just stands there dreaming, and thinking about his horse's feelings is the one thing that brings him back to reality. Death comes again in the typical image of night, as we’re told this is the “darkest evening of the year.” Also, it can either be taken literally as the most lightless night, or it can be taken as the night of the darkest emotions. I think that it is a combination of the two, a dark moonless winter night in which the speaker experiences some form of depression or loneliness.

This can lead individuals into new worlds and stimulate new ideas, enabling them to speculate about future possibilities. This notion is critically examined throughout Robert Frost’s poem, SBW where he comments in many ways on sense of self, the mystery of nature and their roles in society when captured by nature. The artfulness of SBW consists in the way two worlds, tranquillity vs. reality, are established and balanced, emphasising the pressing calls of the human world and the beauty of nature. The duality of the narrator’s response to the woods is caught in the contrast between the tranquil idiom of “I think I know”, in the first stanza and the abrupt colloquial ‘though’. This presents an implicit comparison between the owner of these woods perceiving them as merely a financial benefit whilst the narrator views the “woods” as a

The night symbolized death, and the walk was the person's journey to find their lost life. This poem was somewhat disturbing to me. I thought of a lost soul, thirsting to finish a mission that was not completed in life. Frost depicts death in a frightening manner with the contents of this piece of work.

In this poem an unnamed narrator is traveling with his horse through the woods during snowfall. The narrator is mystified by the beauty of the dark snowy woods and would like to ask in its beauty but cannot. “My little horse must think it queer/ To stop without a farmhouse near” (5-6). The narrator is simply taking in the view and ambiance while the horse finds this peculiar. This is not normal to the horse; there is nothing around that it is familiar and he questions his rider’s choice. Although the rider would like to stay in the forest he understands that this is not what he is supposed to do. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep (13 – 15). The narrator enjoys being alone and this is apparent by his description of the woods. Most people would not describe the woods as dark and lovely but instead would describe it solitude and gloomy. Frost uses the words ‘But I have promises to keep’ the audience does not learn what the promise is one can make an assumption. Like mentioned before, one can say that the narrator is regretting the choice not stay in the woods but may have a family to care for. They may already be living in the American dream yet may not find it satisfying but have to uphold

In the poem Robert Frost uses his rhyme scheme and rhythm to have the sadness flow throughout the entire poem, as his use of terza rima is used to rhyme his words together.\ He also uses alliteration, as to put a point the words in and have the poem have it deep meaning. The sounds used help give it the sad and lonely vibe its suppose to go off, it also gives the poem a simple reading but in reality it has a much deeper meaning, “But not to call me back or say good-by; And further still at an unearthly height One luminary clock against the sky”as

In the early 1920s Robert Lee Frost wrote one of his most intriguing poems, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” in 1922 which was later published in 1923. The poem, simply put, being about a man walking through the woods on a snowy evening admiring the surroundings. However, at a closer look, Frost’s poem is a lot more meaningful than just a story about a patch of snow on some bark, it is a story about nature and isolation. It involves a lot of emotions, themes, symbols, and unique writing styles that make it one of Frost’s most galvanizing

Poetry is a literary medium which often resonates with the responder on a personal level, through the subject matter of the poem, and the techniques used to portray this. Robert Frost utilises many techniques to convey his respect for nature, which consequently makes much of his poetry relevant to the everyday person. The poems “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and “The mending wall” strongly illuminate Frost’s reverence to nature and deal with such matter that allows Frost to speak to ordinary people.

Having considered the case of love the narrator is feeling, it is evident of what is being adored in this poem. The title alone alerts the reader of the place, setting and the basic theme of the story. The woods seem to exhibit a calmness and tranquility that encourages the protagonist to stop his journey and rest and in reality, the wilderness represents madness and darkness in the world. Frost opens the first stanza with the self conscious narrator thinking to himself, “Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though”(1-2). The man’s insecurity naturally causes him to be uneasy but the solitude in the woods creates the affection that awes him. Since this story is told from the narrator’s point of view, the reader can now infer that the protagonist is not thinking clearly due to

Frost’s use of alliteration, personification, and imagery definitely conveyed the speaker’s attitude towards the woods. The reader believes Frost wrote about the woods to show how peaceful and calming it is in an isolated place such as the woods. Most people live in crowded neighborhoods or over-populated places, but living in a secluded area decreases the stress of others outside their household. Because of how isolated the woods are, they can worry about themselves compared to worrying and stressing on the outside

“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”.

Poems are one of the oldest forms of literary expression often times including complex themes. The poem “Come in” by Robert Frost is no exception. The poem provides us with his experience going into the woods, which represent death. The theme of the poem is a description of Frost’s encounter with his personal feelings and emotions, in which he uses “the woods” as a symbol to express what he is feeling. In the poem “Come In”, Robert Frost’s symbolism via birds, and light, imagery of the woods, constant use of metaphors and similes, line breaks, rhyme, and overall sad tone, illustrates the darkness of his thoughts, feelings, and general experiences in his desire to