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Robert Frost as a Nature Poet : An Ecocritical View
Journal of English Language and Literature, 2022
Robert Frost is arguably the greatest American poet of 20 th Century and if there is any truth to Emerson's maxim "to be great is to be misunderstood," then definitely Robert Frost is great as he is one of the most misunderstood poets. Critics have hotly debated whether or not he is a Nature-poet. This paper intends to examine the claim of Frost being a Nature-poet with an ecocritical perspective. We will review The Tuft of Flowers to understand whether or not he can be called Nature-poet. Humans have been writing poems about Nature for centuries and Frost has also described hills, mountains, valleys, rivers, forests, woods, flowers, animals, seasons, and seasonal changes in his poems in a beautiful way, but does description of flora and fauna in the poem makes the poet a Nature-poet has been studied in this paper.
Revisiting and Revaluing Nature: An Ecocritical Study in Frost's Select Poems
The humans are violating the laws of nature. The retribution from the biosphere arises in the form of extinction of species, hole in the ozone layer, global warming, acid rain, famines, droughts, hurricanes and tsunamis etc. In ecology, man's tragic flaw is his anthropocentric vision. The present era witnesses man's compulsion to conquer, violate, exploit and domesticate every natural thing. Contrasted to biocentricism, the man-made potential horrors are nuclear holocaust, poisoning radiation, oil spills, toxic waste and destruction of tropical rain forest, depletion of green cover and so on. Thus, the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment is ecocriticism that becomes a theoretical discourse negotiating between human culture and nature.
AN ECOCRITICAL READING OF ROBERT FROST'S SELECT POEMS
Research Front, 2016
Robert Frost is an American poet who writes about nature and his poetry deals with the rural life. But Frost is not a nature poet in the tradition of William Wordsworth and other romantics. To him, nature is never an impulse of creation, but it always remains the background of his writing. The description of nature in poetry is accurate and lively. He seeks inspiration and enjoyment from the rural setting. His attitude towards nature as one armed truce, still manages to maintain the mutual respect between individual man and the forces of the nature.
Explore the Natural Beauty of Robert Frost's in his Poetry
Nature is the most excellent attribute of Robert Frost's poetry. Frost has a profound affection and compassion towards animals. However, traditional rural life is not the main focus of Frost's poetry. Frost reflects mostly on the extraordinary struggle that has taken place in the natural environment. His poems typically begin with the observation of Nature and continue to connect with the human psychological condition. According to Frost, Nature is not just a source of joy but also an impetus of human intelligence. People should be educated by thought, such that Nature is the main character in his poetry rather than only a backdrop.
THE WORLD OF NATURE AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE IN THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST
The world of nature is very important to study of Frost's poetry. By using nature as a background of his poems, Frost clearly demonstrates meaning and values of life and often depicts some treatment of nature and the social situation that have included a characteristic portrayal of humanity. This study enables us to understand Frost's poetical theme and values that would explain his hidden voice of nature and examines human inner mind, exposing its conflicts and harmony through it. Some critics have identified him as a terrifying poet and others labeled him a pessimistic poet or, a dark naturalist. However, he has a constant vision of nature throughout the poems. More than anything else, the speaker of his poems uses sign and symbol of nature that take an identity of others. Furthermore, this study discusses his series of concrete images which echo his poetry and intensify clarification of human life on the conceptions of the world of nature.
Nature Imagery in Robert Frost’s Poetry
Research Journal Of English, 2019
is a famous American poet who used nature in his poetry to make readers think about life. Seldom would Robert Frost be given a seat in a Pantheon ofAnglo-American modernist poets, whereas Pound, Eliot, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Marine Moor would all have a prestigious place. For, Frost is known as a gentle farmer poet who represents New England's nature and rural folk. He is judged to be an old fashioned nature poet who criticized "the avant-garde" and continued to make use of English literary tradition.
ROBERT FROST'S POETRY: A STUDY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF ART FOR LIFE'S SAKE
The poet/critic Randall Jarrell often praised Frost's poetry and wrote, "Robert Frost, along with Stevens and Eliot, seems to me the greatest of the American poets of this century. Frost's virtues as a poet and artist are extraordinary. No other living poet has written so well about the actions of ordinary men; his wonderful dramatic monologues or dramatic scenes come out of a knowledge of people that few poets have had, and they are written in a verse that uses, sometimes with absolute mastery, the rhythms of actual speech‖. Robert Frost loved nature. His poetry was full of emotional appearances about his personal life and behavior. In addition, his literary verses are uncomplicated and profound. He also wrote plain fictions about common people, usually inhabitants of rustic New England. Robert Frost wrote exceptional prose, applying ordinary and sincere language; his poems enclose concept of symbolism, obscure significances, sounds, rhyme, meter, metaphors and more. Robert Frost was, quite simply, one of America's leading 20 th century poets. It could be because he wrote poems about rural life drawing a distinct contrast between its innocence and peacefulness and the depression and corruption of city life. It could also be because he used traditional verse forms that were understood by one and all. It might even be that people sensed his step forward in the direction of modernizing the interplay of rhythm and meter while writing exactly how people spoke. His poetry has been called traditional, experimental, regional, universal, and even pastoral. The world of Frost's poetry is beautiful but it is also harsh and uncaring. Frost wrote that, ―Man has need of nature, but nature has no need of man‖. The poem Birches contains the image of slender trees bent to the ground temporally by a boy's swinging on them or permanently by an ice storm. But as the poem unfolds, it becomes clear that the speaker is concerned not only with child's play and natural phenomena, but also with the point at which physical and spiritual reality merge: ― I like to think some boy's been swinging them But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay As ice – storms do‖
International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation
This paper attempts to investigate the depiction of nature in the poetry of Robert Frost and how this treatment simultaneously resembles and differs from that of romantic poetry. Though he belongs to the era of modernism, his poetry carries numerous characteristics of romantic poetry. The researcher tries to compare the poetry of Robert Frost and that of the Romantics how they are identical or dissimilar in the representation of nature. Robert Frost might be called the interpreter of nature and humanity. He shows that he is a close observer of both nature and people. On the other hand, Romantic writers see nature as a source of inspiration, solace in agony, healer in mental illness, rescuer in struggling period, etc. They treat nature as Mother Nature where their poetry tells us the beauty of green forestland, woods, hills and mountains, riverbanks, pastoral scenarios, breezes and winds, fresh air, sunrises, and sunsets, etc. Whereas Robert Frost always tries to make a bridge betwee...
HUMAN PHENOMENON AND IMPERIAL NATURE: AN ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF ROBERT FROST’S POETRY
Robert Lee Frost is one of the major American poets, born on 26th of March in 1874 in San Francisco. He is also known as the New England poet. He is rewarded four times Pulitzer Prize. Through the medium of his poetry Frost tried to spread awareness among human beings towards our environment and this message he conveyed beautifully through the medium of poetry. He dictates that nature is harsh and indifferent towards man and man should accept the troubles thrown by nature. Whatever we do, it directly affects our environment. He suggests that we must not afraid of failure and defeats. We take from nature in abundance and return to it very little. So, he makes us aware that we must be Eco-friendly and must be aware of what is hidden in the lap of nature which our eyes are unable to perceive but which we can comprehend through our common sense. Key Words: Environment, Nature, Materialism, Technology, Exploitation, Science.
The Concept of Nature in the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Robert Frost: A Comparative Study
Frost, 2019
This research aims to investigate the different meanings for the term-nature‖. Moreover, it seeks to identify the major similarities and differences in the use of nature in the poetry of William Wordsworth and Robert Frost. Since this research is theoretical in nature, it depends primarily on reviewing already published works on the topic. The researchers consulted a significant number of published references on the topic as well as specialized literary dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and the internet. The research concludes that the term-nature‖ has not always had the same meaning or carries the same level of significance.