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An Inquiry into the Major Themes Loomed Large in Robert Frost's Poems

Scholars Research Publisher , 2021

An attempt has been made to glimpse at the major themes of Robert Frost's poems. Frost is a modern American poet of the twentieth century whose poems are furnished with variegated themes. He is a poet who typifies the country's traditional cultural inheritance. He has absorbed the essence what constitutes America. He is also called the ‗voice of America' ; so to say, he has represented the faith, doubt, joys, sorrows, emotions, thoughts and ideas of the people of America. He is a poet of man whose poems deal with Man in relation with the universe crossing the border of America. Frost sees that man's environment is quite indifferent to man. To him, nature is neither absolutely benevolent to man nor hostile always. He regards nature as a beautiful but dangerous force, worthy of admiration, nonetheless fraught with peril. Thus man is essentially alone. A barrier is made between man and his immediate environment, between man and the universe, between man and man. His work shows strong sympathy for the values of the early American society. He employs themes from the early 1900's rural life in New England. He uses the pastoral setting to examine the complex social and philosophical themes. Frost concentrates on ordinary subject matters but his emotional range is wide and deep, and his poems shift dramatically from a tone of humorous banter to the passionate expression of tragic experience. He also uses language considering his subject matters. His poetry is structured within traditional metrical and rhythmical schemes, and vernacular speeches. Daniel Hoffman regards Frost as the founder of-a new aesthetic of poetry as speeches.‖ This article aims at discussing Frost's major themes highlighting his poetic mastery.

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‖

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.

An Analysis of Aspect of Universality in the Poems of Robert Frost

Ayudh , 2021

This research paper talks about the careful study of Robert Frost's works reveals that how he depicted the daily life experiences of the humans. He mainly talks about humanism in his poems and through it he gave more importance to human rather than God, religion, andpolitics. Frost's poems are all about reasons, experiences, and emotions of humans. These themes are expressed by Frost's reflection of human and his struggle in life. We can find several aspects about humans, their emotions like love and struggle, and universality with the concept of humanism. The concept behind writing this research paper is to find how Robert Frost develops the idea of humanismand universality through human experience and reasons.

Portrayal of Realism and Rationalism in the Selected Poems of Robert Frost

International Journal of English Language & Translation Studies, 2014

Robert Frost (1874-1963) is a famous American Poet. As most of his poems are autobiographical in subject, it is evident that he has been mostly influenced by the environment around him in composing his masterpieces. Frost’s themes are very simple in the surface meaning endowed with an easily understandable diction and a liberal style of writing. Yet, a careful study of his works vividly reveals his greatness as a ‘true’ judge of various critical aspects associated with the everyday experiences of the humans. His major characters- the narrators in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “Mending wall” and “The Road not Taken” are viewed as the real people with real struggles in real life. It is seen that Frost’s poetry is highly connotative and the same reader can interpret the poetry of Robert Frost in multiple ways in multiple settings. The present article aims at critically examining Frost’s ‘realistic’ and ‘rationalistic’ approaches in the elevation of human nature under the broad spectrum of human life. This article also aims at proving that no poem of Frost ends in an absolute imagination because Frost himself seems to believe in realism as the ultimate fate of the individuals though fancy and imagination provides a temporary relief to the disturbed soul.

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.

AN EXPLORATION OF THE STRATUMS OF DELIGHT AND WISDOM IN THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST

Article, 2015

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.

Prospects for the Study of Robert Frost

Resources for American Literary Study, 2014

Though questions about the place of Robert Frost in the canon of American literature endure, he remains a fascinating poet and public figure whose accessibility and inscrutability will surely engage the next generation of scholars, whether their approach is biographical, cultural, or theoretical. The scattering of archival material related to Frost and the hodgepodge of volumes of varying quality containing his letters, talks, and conversa tions will remain the chief problem for years even though ongoing efforts to consolidate the prose, the notebooks, the letters, and even his talks will mitigate this difficulty. The publication of Frost's letters over the next five years will certainly inspire a new biography, one less vexed than Lawrence Thompson's still-indispensable account. Inquiring scholars still have much to analyze in Frost's individual poems and volumes, not to mention his poli tics, his status as celebrity, and his relations to both verbal and visual artists. Robert Frost's (1874-1963) life and work continue to provide a rich area of study, even as the academic culture vigorously redefines the field of "American literature" within which Frost has been canonically lodged for years and even as he gets resifted to various levels in debates about his modernism. Developments during the past generation have made more documents accessible and have deepened and broadened our understand ing of Frost's art and life. There is still much work to be done in simply cataloging, assembling, and making more available the letters, interviews, talks, and readings, and in giving the biographical approaches and liter ary interpretations a more definitive cultural inflection than they have taken, but the field has a well-established collection of texts and compan ion works to guide and inspire scholars just approaching Frost, as well as those who have been working on him for years. Often regarded by scholars as regrettable, Frost's popularity across the ranks of readers, sometimes for the "wrong" reasons, has actually