The Figure A Poem Makes By Robert Lee Frost

“Robert Frost is one of the most famous poets in U.S. history, but many people are surprised and disappointed to learn of his troubled childhood and the enormous contradictions in his adult life. For instance, having dropped in and out of school and never having completed a college degree, Frost maintained a lifelong disregard for formal education, once writing, “The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side to everything” (Lathem, p.

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.

A poem can paint a thousand images in one’s mind. The poem, Acquainted with the Night, presents a graphic picture of a lonely, depressed man, who is possibly an insomniac, walking the streets on a sad, rainy night .This poem shows the different emotions that the author goes through in order to cope with heartbreak. The poem is aimed at the world in general, and the themes of depression, loneliness, and sadness prevails across the entire poem. The poem follows the format with 3-line stanzas and a scheme of rhyming aba bcb cdc dad aa. This poem proves that the author is going through turmoil within himself and is struggling as the love of his life has moved on with no trace like a thief in the night. The author starts the Poem off as follows;

There are several likenesses and differences in these poems. They each have their own meaning; each represent a separate thing and each tell a different story. However, they are all indicative of Frost’s love of the outdoors, his true enjoyment of nature and his wistfulness at growing old. He seems to look back at youth with a sad longing.

In Robert Frost’s “Design,” written in 1922, the narrator laments the juxtaposition of life and death that he bears witness to when he sees a spider on a heal-all flower carrying the dead moth it has killed. He uses a modified Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, punctuation, repetition of rhyme and diction, repetition of anomaly, and repetition of the same rhyme in both the octave and the sestet, to convey that death is a question that cannot be answered and that the only solution, the only answer, is to continue to ponder over it. While it is a question that cannot be answered, it must be questioned anyway. He uses symbols he has drawn from in earlier works, as well as his experience playing with the form of the Petrarchan sonnet in the past, to help shed light on the importance of this.

Frost was an intelligent man. He faced many hardships throughout his life and poetry is one of the few things that helped him get through the rough times. Alongside his wife, Elinor, they lost most of their children and struggled to find poets who would take a chance on new poets such as Frost. Even when faced with many tough choices in life, Elinor’s complete support through Frost’s journey on becoming a poet helped light some inspiration to frost as well as helped with helping him continue his journey. After a few years, one of the first poets to believe and take a look a Frost’s work were authors Pound and Thomas. Through this, Frost became acquaintances with Pound and very good friends with Thomas. Through the meaningful relationships formed

Robert Frost was a profound American poet who remains influential to this day. His versatility of theme, and his ability to relate to the human condition makes his work timeless. His simplistic writing style has made him accessible to generations of students. Much of his writing was motivated by the many tragedies he endured beginning with the death of his father and including the deaths of of his own children and his wife who died of cancer.

A summary is also given explaining each and every stanza of the poem. However, the main claim that is stated in this article is that the writer has been controversial regarding the future. This source is simple and clean to read out and understand instead of making the readers like cats on the fence. It contains organized information with validation and also can be incorporated in any sane claim that Frost doesn’t confirm or support a particular side and explains how life is filled with different choices. This source studies different phrases in the diction.

The poet shows us his point of view in raising a kid and also trying to become his best friend. We as readers are given the ability to read the mind of the father, and see through his perspective; being afraid of being separated from his son over time. Through his point of view, his nightmare and his desire are being exposed.

1. Is the husband insensitive and indifferent to his wife’s grief? Has Frost invited us to sympathize with one character more than with the other?

Robert Frost authored his poetry as if he observed metaphors in everyday encounters, bringing to life vivid visual images in the minds of readers everywhere. Frost vocalized, “Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, ‘grace’ metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides that one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another.” Frost applies metaphors, dialogue and figurative language resulting in memorable poetry described by John F. Kennedy as “from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding.” Frost applies everyday language, blending traditional meters and idioms with dramatic narration to stimulate the most profound thinking. Frost is known for a New England style both in his poetry he creates as well as in his writing styles and techniques. He is from modern times and considered a modern poet, but is well known for his incorporation of nineteenth century tendencies and traditions in his poems. Robert Frost applies imagery and figurative language to create vivid visual images, creating a well-known style as a modern poet while incorporating traditional nineteenth century poetic practices.

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.

It is easy to express your emotions, and feelings through poetry. Which is exactly what Robert Frost has done through his entire career. Each poem Robert Frost has written, has meaning behind it all. He has gone through an extreme amount of events, and tragedies in his life. Frost has been through an unimaginable amount of losses, deaths, and loneliness throughout his years. Throughout his life his poetry has had a huge impact on him, the situations and losses, and emotions he had encountered in his life were expressed and showed throughout his poetry.

“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”.

Robert Frost is perhaps one of America's best poets of his generation. His vivid images of nature capture the minds of readers. His poems appear to be simple, but if you look into them there is a lot of insight. Robert Frost spoke at John F. Kennedy's inauguration. He is the only poet to have had the opportunity to speak at a presidential inauguration. Through his poetry people learn that Robert Frost is a complicated and intellectual man who has a place in many American hearts. (Richards P.10)