AN EXPLORATION OF THE STRATUMS OF DELIGHT AND WISDOM IN THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST (original) (raw)

Based on one single comment of Robert Frost (1874-1963) about his poetry, "A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom", the paper explores how the stratums of delight and wisdom of his poems are produced, and also it argues that because of Frost"s commonsense style and convincing portrayal of universal values and truth of common humanity, the poetry of Frost becomes the source of delight and wisdom for the readers. To explore the question or point already stated, some of the best poems of the poet, with special focus on the forms and styles used by Frost, have been taken into consideration, along with available critical approaches to the poet. Not only that, few of the earlier comments of the different school of poetry-from Aristotle to Horace onwards-have been engaged to analyze and answer the question Frost has produced by the comment about his own poems in particular and the poetry in general. This paper also focuses the fact that the delight and wisdom of Frost"s poems are derived not only from stylistic forms of his poetry but also from his inner experience of human soul and mind and outer observation of life and nature. Though the realm of Frost"s poetry basically presents a bleak picture of reality and human life, with seemingly occasional delightful picture of nature, it becomes a great source of delight and wisdom because of Frost"s truthful presentation of life, human values and nature. Thus this paper explores the issue of delight and wisdom in the poetry of Robert Frost.