Robert Frost

Frost’s various speaking tones can be shown in his well-known poem “Mending Wall.” Throughout the poem the speaker’s voice is open and relaxed, yet, inward and musing. It helps welcome the reader and at the time entices the reader into a riddle which becomes essential to the poem’s meaning. The speaker’s eventual speculation about what might not “love a wall” becomes a description of the struggle of wall-mending and begins to wonder why he and his neighbor have met to carry out the task in the first place. The speaker’s range of tone throughout the poem varies from seriousness to fantasy to glee.

Robert Frost was noteworthy for the way in which he was able to use symbolism in his poems that deal with nature. Since his poetry about nature does not seem to depict subjects in quite a positive light, he has been criticized for not being as unrealistic as other poets. Frost drew many parallels between nature and his views on humanity and the human mind. Frost wanted to emphasize the relationship a man holds with nature. While we may wish that nature could help us to make decisions and succeed in the world, nature has no mind or will of its own. When we are “one” with nature, we are mentally and socially alone. Frost also wrote about people alone with the wilderness in order to help us understand what he felt may be some probable mental consequences

Robert Frost is one of America’s most celebrated poets. Born in 1874, he was raised in San Francisco until his father passed away. As Robert Frost grew up, many tragic things happened to him. There were many deaths in his family including some of his children. Even during these hard times, he continued to create poetry. Frost was heavily influenced by his surroundings. He loved spending time in the wilderness and observing nature. The time Robert Frost spent living New England, and his views on World War II serve as a main inspiration for his poetry.

Robert Frost is a pastoral poet. His love for rural life revealed in his work. He incorporates major themes: one's life choices, isolation, and nature in his works.

“Mending Wall” begins with the persona who desires companionship and wants to create a connection with his neighbour. It is seen that through the ramifications of discovery, the persona is confronted which leads to him forming a negatively changed perspective of himself and his neighbour. His desire to engage and create a connection with his neighbour is conveyed through his constant questioning of the need for a wall. He asks questions such as “Before I built a wall, I’d ask to know/What I was walling in or walling out”, which allows him to realise that walls prevent and hinder connections. As a result of this, he attempts to convince his neighbour and show him how walls are useless and needless in society. Through the analogy “he is all pine and I am apple orchard/My apple trees will never get across” the persona tries to further convince his neighbour to remove the wall which hinders human connection. However the neighbour uses the aphorism “Good fences make good neighbors” throughout the poem to respond to the questioning of the persona which shows how he is incapable of making a connection due to his lack of understanding. The wall in this poem symbolically shows the barriers which are present in society which prevent and hinder communication and

Robert Frost writes his poems with a connection to nature. Frost though grew up in an urban setting. Though in the video “A Conversation with Robert Frost”, Frost stated that of the jobs he had growing up farming impacted him the most. Farming might have jump started his fascination with nature at a young age. By being raised in such an urban setting and not being as in touch with nature, Frost gained a fascination for it. Frost’s attitude towards nature is that of wonder and appreciation. In frost’s poem “The Tuft of Flowers” it shows the theme of nature, such as “But he turned first, and led my eye to look / At a tall tuft of flowers beside a brook,” (21-22). In his poems, it is often mentioned the relationship between nature and man. This

One of the most humble of men to be awarded a modest four Pulitzer prizes and casually accept a Congressional Gold Medal for his works, Robert Frost arguably carried a literary movement and immortalized himself in history. While viewed as a naturalist, Frost is noted for the New England regionalism that is prevalent in his works. By acting on the world and surrendering to his poetry, Frost held a cynical mirror of bi-polarity to his world and developed it through regional naturalism.

Robert Frost’s nature poetry occupies a significant place in the poetic arts; however, it is likely Frost’s use of nature is the most misunderstood aspect of his poetry. While nature is always present in Frost’s writing, it is primarily used in a “pastoral sense” (Lynen 1). This makes sense as Frost did consider himself to be a shepherd.

The speaker of the poem challenges his own beliefs as well as the neighbors by trying to get him to see that the wall is no longer necessary. By challenging the neighbor the speaker explores his other possible options. Each spring by building the wall back up so quickly, they could be missing out on opportunities. The narrator views his neighbor’s opinions as old-fashioned and ignorant: “Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top/ In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed” (40-41). The other man is so stuck in his ways he will not even consider the narrator’s thoughts. People in today’s society have become comfortable with how they live their daily lives. Humans tend to resist change because it is out of their comfort zone. There are people who will challenge others beliefs, but it is up to the individual to choose whether or not they want to accept change and become enlightened. Some are comfortable with change and accept it willingly, such as the narrator who thinks that the wall is unnecessary. The neighbor repeatedly says, “Good fences make good neighbors” (line 47), as his

The wall in the poem is a stone wall between the fields belonging to two neighbors. In the spring they work together to “set the wall between us once again” (14). The wall is a symbol for division, separation and barriers to friendship, communication and relationships. The author’s use of the tactile image of “we wear our fingers rough with handling them” (20) shows how much effort is involved in maintaining walls. Maintaining distance between other people also requires effort.

Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” was written in 1922 then later published in 1923. In the poem, the speaker expresses his feelings and thoughts of the woods during the darkest night of the year. The speaker and his horse makes a random stop in a certain area of the woods. The speaker seemed very interested in the scenery of that part of the woods. Although the speaker wants to stay, he has to keep his promise and continue on. Frost uses personification, imagery, and alliteration to express the feelings and moods from the snowy night in the woods.

For this course, I wrote an essay entitled, “A Gaze into Robert Frost’s Poetry,” in which I analyze the distinctive aesthetic elements of Frost’s poetry. The essay examined and compared the aesthetic elements of Frost’s poems “Birches,” “In White,” “Out, Out-” and “Home Burial.” I wrote that “Frost’s poetry focuses on descriptive imagery and simplicity in language” (12). “Frost is well known for writing poetry that uses images of landscapes and simple language to depict country folk life” (12). “The language in Frost’s poetry is simple because it focuses on the spoken language used in regional areas he wrote about” (12). I concluded in my essay that “[t]he remarkably subtle rather than obvious depth of Frost’s poetry contributes to ‘the richness of his art’”

“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”.

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference” (Beginning sentence of The Road not Taken Frost). Robert Frost is the most beloved poet in America and around the world. Many of his famous works in poetry include: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Birches,” “The Road Not Taken” (Which the first sentence of this poem is the beginning introit), “A Boys Will”, and many other great works. Many would not know, but Frost was not widely successful until he was thirty-eight years old. What happens to be the most surprising thing about Robert Frost was not only how fast he was known, but how he did it. In this composition it will describe the slow and steady rise of Robert Frost’s