Robert Frost’s Poetry Begins in Delight and Ends in Wisdom (original) (raw)

2018, International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities (IJELLH)

Robert Frost, the four times Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry is considered as the well-known American rural poet of nature and truth. His notable works include "A Boy's Will" (1913), "North of Boston" (1914), "Mountain Interval" (1916), "New Hampshire" (1923) and "West Running Brook" (1929). He often says, "A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom". This statement arouses the curiosity of the researcher to study whether the poems of Frost himself also begin in delight and end in wisdom or not. So, the investigator selected his five poems to study and he found that each of them is highly philosophical and allegorical. He also found that there is both delight (surface meaning) and wisdom (deep meaning) too in these poems. Each of his poems starts with a pleasing note and ends with an insight.