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- Robert Frost
- by Byron Byrne-Taylor
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- Critical Theory, History, Intellectual History, World Literatures
- by Aditya Karmakar
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- Personality Psychology, Robert Frost, Bakhtin dialogism, Arundhati Roy
- by Giordano Lahaderne
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- Wine, Robert Frost, October, Grapes

While recent work in lyric theory has put the generic category of the lyric into radical question, less attention has been paid to how lyric poets employ the instabilities of figuration and reference to critical, and ultimately social, ends. Taking as a test case the most popular poet of a regionally authentic American lyric, Robert Frost, I argue that Frost uses techniques of lyric voicing to critique the very means by which persons appear as familiar individuals, of a sociality or place, and therefore worthy of certain liberties and property claims. I draw upon Frost's early New England poems, his relationship with Edward Thomas, as well as his final public lecture, "On Extravagance" to show how he links " drifts" in reference and cumulative "shifts" in sound or sense to the lived experience of transience, particularly within the context of rural economies. Frost allies the vocation of poetry and lyric form not with a rugged isolationism but a more conditional notion of freedom, one that forms across a variety of egoisms, boundaries, and moral or ethical values.

- by Venny Rahardjono
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- Poetry, Robert Frost

This essay's aim is to analyse the poem made by Robert Frost. He was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.

- by Giovanni Minicucci
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- American Literature, English Literature, Literature, Poetry

Uses grounded theory to analyze hundreds of online posts written by teachers for students. Identifies recurring themes.

Readers of Robert Frost’s poetry will observe that the author holds a high regard for nature. Indeed, Frost’s references to nature are quite copious. In a Frost poem, however, the mention of a natural object or force is never just as simple as that. Each connection to nature has a specific, intentional, and meaningful connection to humanity (Jennings 171). Frost himself said, “I am not a poet for nature… there is almost always a person in my poems” (Thompson). Ultimately, Frost uses nature to explore and describe the theme of conflict in human life.

- by Angelica M Silver
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- Poetry, Conflict, Nature, Robert Frost
- by Kristen Ober
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- English, Robert Frost, Reading Reponse, Heavenly City

After the Whitmanian revolution in American poetics, rhyme in English language poetry was not fully redeemed until a generation later in the work of Robert Frost. He was born in 1874, when the Civil War had been over for less than a decade, Whitman and Emerson were old but very much alive, and most of the country still lacked electricity. The “great transformation” of the lifeworld—from subsistence farming and handicrafts into coal-powered assembly lines—was just beginning. Frost’s poems are concrete and can be read literally, with a minimum of interpretation; yet they are highly suggestive of deeper issues which require metaphorical reading. This is a factor in his remarkable popularity, since naïve as well as sophisticated readers find gratification in them. Frost’s poems of work can be sorted into those which celebrate and even glorify pre-industrial manual labor (mowing with a scythe, picking apples on a ladder, chopping wood with an axe, building haystacks with a pitchfork, hoeing, and so on), and those which confront and lament the brutal power of industrial machines, large or small (e.g., the power saw, the mill, and the newly ubiquitous telephone pole he called “a barkless specter”). His deep ambivalence over modern technology and its social results did not constitute a thorough rejection of the times, nor an uncritical nostalgia for a vanishing past. Frost’s critique bears on the way new technologies and their wealthy beneficiaries had begun to intrude into what might have remained (and to a small degree, has remained) a traditional society of self-reliance, cautious but genuine fellowship, and respect for the sublimity of Nature.

- by Jamey Hecht
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- Modern Poetry, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heidegger and Technology, Robert Frost
- by Denis Akhapkin
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- Russian Literature, Poetry, Intertextuality, Russian Poetry

Analysis and interpretation of the poem.

- by Tammara Or Slilat
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- Robert Frost

This article elaborates key aspects of imagist poetry of the twentieth century American poets E. Pound, A. Lowell and H. Doolittle. Twentieth century imagism belongs to a literary movement in American modern era that is characterized by a tendency to break from the past of traditional literary styles, to a movement that reflects the simplicity, clarity and precision of reflective images. It covers a period from imagism to symbolism, a period of free expression, direct topics as well as images as an exact description. The study remains with highest relevance, despite that there is a wide range of articles, papers, analysis and books about American studies, yet it is a gap in specific topics and authors.

- by Halil Bashota
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- American Literature, Latin American Studies, Ezra Pound, Modern Poetry

- by Halil Bashota
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- American Literature, Latin American Studies, Ezra Pound, Modern Poetry
- by Shai Lopez
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- Robert Frost
- by Benjamin Ogden and +1
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- Psychology, History Of Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Object Relations

The study of literature is obviously the study of life and death. Literature deals with several nuances of life, death and the philosophies connected. Literature mirrors life and that is how we can realize what life is in a very meaningful way. In literature most of the poetry enlightens the readers through such meanings. This paper focuses on two eminent poets of American literature, i.e. Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, whose poetry mainly deals with life and death. Both the poets are known for their idiosyncrasies depicting their own style and content. Their poems are philosophical in nature, visualizing nature, relationship, divinity and spirituality. Both the poets were close to nature and spent their lives amidst the beauties of nature. Their poetry is simplistic and honest expressing the daily activities of life.

- by Madhushri Kallimani
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- Robert Frost

This book is a brief review of poetry translation theorem. The three pieces are the poems by Kahlil Gibran, William Shakespeare, and Robert Frost which are translated into Thai poetry of a Thai poet -- Chettapat Wisaijorn who is the author of the book himself. Chettapat Wisaijorn is the pseudonym of Thanachate Wisaijorn. After he won the Young Thai Artist Award in 2004 and 2005 respectively, his collections of poetry -- On the BTS Sleeper and The Holy War -- were published by Nanmee Books. He also had his Spanish - Thai translation published. The book is titled as "Los Siete Poderes" by Alex Rovira Celma.

- by Thanachate Wisaijorn
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- Translation Studies, Poetry, Translation of Poetry, Translation

In this essay I explore the relationship between property and community. It is an ambiguous one: property can be accused of corroding the human connections that constitute community life, but the maintenance of a property regime can also be seen as itself a communal enterprise. This ambiguity is displayed vividly in Robert Frost's "Mending Wall." Reading the poem can help us see the complex ways in which property and community are intertwined.

- by Zev Trachtenberg
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- Property, Literature and Philosophy, Robert Frost

Art has always been closely intertwined with politics, and throughout history many artists have protested, both through their art and their political activism, against unjust political actions. In recent history, the Vietnam War era saw the rise of political art, a prime example of which could be observed in the proliferation of protest posters in the era. The ascendance of Donald Trump to the highest political office in the United States, and the fierce opposition by many American artists to him, marked another chapter in the battle between arts and politics. Against this backdrop, this article aims to analyze the way in which one of Robert Frost's most famous poems, "Mending Wall" (1914), was appropriated by the anti-Trump media to criticize his highly contentious immigration policies. In so doing, this article discusses "Mending Wall" and some of its recent political interpretations through juxtaposing two articles on the poem published in Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, respectively. We argue that in their attempt to either support or oppose the building of the wall on the US-Mexico border, the authors offer a blinkered view of "Mending Wall" to serve their own political agendas. Frost's poem, however, transcends the boundaries of reductive politics by leaving the narrative open-ended, which, in turn, encourages the readers to come to their own conclusions over the question of the wall—a fact that can account for the sustained interest in the poem since its publication.

- by Ars Artium
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- English Literature, Poetry, Immigration Studies, Modernism

In Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" two rustic neighbors make repairs on wall separating their properties. Frost believes that poetry should be written in a hint, that's why in his poem he uses parables so frequently. It starts out "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" and ends with "Good fences make good neighbors." Frost as the speaker starts to question why do they have even a wall?

- by Çağatay Sevil
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- American Literature, American Studies, Robert Frost, Boundaries
- by Josh Chen
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- Poetry, Robert Frost, Robert Frost and American Modernism
- by Khaleel Rahman
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- Robert Frost

This article elaborates key aspects of the imagist poetry of twentieth century American poets E. Pound, A. Lowell and H. Doolittle. Twentieth century Imagism belongs to a literary movement in American modern era that is characterized by a tendency to break from the past of traditional literary styles, to a movement that reflects the simplicity, clarity and precision of reflective images. It covers a period from imagism to symbolism, a period of free expression, direct topics as well as images as an exact description. The study remains with highest relevance, despite that there is a wide range of articles, papers, analysis and books about American studies, yet it is a gap in specific topics and authors.

- by Halil Bashota
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- American Literature, Latin American Studies, Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Human interpretation of life had become so anthropocentric by the end of modernism that an eco-centric interpretation of the same was inevitable which led to proliferating works of non-human narratives to understand human life. Artists and writers like Woolf, Gogh and Frost were philosophers who took to interpreting image of insects, each having different essences of its own. For example Van Gogh's Giant Peacock Moth is part of the butterfly series and so the moth cannot be interpreted individually but as a collective dissection of the winged insects that wholly symbolize transformations of human beings. Whereas Virginia Woolf's The Death of the Moth philosophize the inevitability of life and death in which the moth acts as a tool to understand ontological significance of being a human. They are essentially writing about the significance of human life through the life of an insect but at the same time critically placing us into the crux of knowledge about human ontology that forms a design of life as Robert Frost writes in his poem Design. Their writing of life is the constant "deconstruction" or an influx of the socially constructed idea of the human and non-human; stepping beyond the margins of anthropocentricism.

- by Sindhura Dutta
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- Ontology, Ecocriticism, Robert Frost, Vincent Van Gogh
- by Asma Neelam
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- American Literature, Robert Frost

This complete study guide provides a comprehensive literary and thematic analysis of the famous poem - "Dust of Snow" by the American poet - Robert Frost. The poem is part of many schools and college curricula and therefore for the benefit of students, I have included a general introduction to the poem and the poet, a stanza-by-stanza explanation, and structural analysis of the poem. I have also covered the poetic devices used with examples and the significance of the powerful symbolism employed by Frost. In a nutshell, I have endeavored to give you a complete and comprehensive analysis of this beautiful and brief poem in my best literary capacity. I hope you get something of worth from it. Happy reading!

- by Vinay Rajoria
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- American Literature, American Studies, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Language

The rhyme scheme of the poem can echo the idea of the poem

- by William Yarrow
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- Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Richard II

This paper attempts to analyse the Lexical Choices in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken poem from the perspectives of stylistics. Stylistics is the study of style of language in literature. It seeks to account for the interpretative effects of a text through close study of its linguistic detail, such as syntactic structuring, semantic deviation, deixis, modality, etc. A piece of work cannot be properly understood without a thorough knowledge of the language, which is its medium of expression. Each register has its own characteristics style with certain lexical and grammatical choices. Poets, particularly modern ones, have successfully freed themselves from constraints of what is so called ‚poetic language (Sharma, 2009: 31). In this write up, the value of the game considers the lexical choices in the poem " The Road Not Taken‛ by Robert Frost in the following categories: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, lexical categories such as synonymy, antagonymy, contradiction and their significance or effects in the poem.

Nature has often been one of the prominent themes in literature. It has been the topic of celebration by the Romantics to have a way out from the hectic business of city life. On the other hand, the adaptation of the same subject has also been observed by the Modern poets to put emphasis on the realities and responsibilities of human existence. This paper aims at making a comparative study in the presentation of “Nature” by William Wordsworth, an English Romantic and Robert Frost, a Modern American.

- by Tasmia Moslehuddin and +1
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- William Wordsworth, Robert Frost

A brief analysis on this specific quality of Robert Frost's poems

- by Athira Vijayan
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- American Literature, Poetry, Robert Frost, American Poetry

Nature and literature have always shared a close relationship as is evidenced in the works of poets and other writers down the ages in almost all cultures of the world. Today the intimate relationship between the natural and social world is being analyzed and emphasized in all departments of knowledge and development.. Eco-criticism looks back on a long tradition of criticism that approach nature as an aesthetic object and not a subject scientific study. For an eco-critic, the text becomes a place where different aspects of nature become various phenomena to be scientifically dissected and analyzed. A text is mere construct in which science is called upon merely to assess the inherent beauty as well as utility of Nature. Robert Frost is one of the greatest poets of nature who loved and penned her colours with a great message. A charismatic public reader, he was renowned for his tours. His popularity is easy to explain: He wrote of traditional farm life, appealing to a nostalgia for the old ways. His subjects are universal — apple picking, stone walls, fences, country roads. Frost's poems create a memorable impression by the overwhelming presence of nature. Mountains rearing high above man's head, valleys curving to man's inquiring eye, roads, open or leaf-strewn, crowded trees, dense dark woods, hills of snow caving in heavily, tufts of flowers and many more – this memorable

- by Dr. Yogesh Kashikar
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- Ecology, Robert Frost, Eco-criticism, Nature and Robert Frost

Robert Frost: Life, A Brief Analysis of West Running Brook, and his writing style

- by Dr Joshua Gnana Raj P
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- Robert Frost, Robert Frost and American Modernism, Frost

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.

- by M. Nikitabar
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- Poetry, Literary Criticism, 20th Century American Literature, Lyric poetry

This essay appeared in the collection Teaching Romanticism and Critical Theory, edited by Brian McGrath (a Romantic Circles Pedagogies Commons Special Issue, Dec. 2016). It demonstrates the use and interest of teaching the debated concept of lyric ontology in the Romantic Poetry classroom across undergraduate and graduate levels. It moves from a narrative introduction on Robert Frost's very material practice of "lyric overhearing" on his Derry, New Hampshire party-phone line, to extended consideration of the recent scholarly turn to historical poetics in the study of nineteenth century British and American Poetry. I discuss Virginia Jackson's influential and compelling anti-lyric anti-theory——Jackson's version of the resistance to theory——as it presents a teachable conflict with the Romantic "literary absolute." The essay ends by reconsidering the metonymic linkage between the position of Romanticism and the position of poetry/ literature/ the Humanities in the institution of the contemporary university, and with brief suggestions for lesson plan ideas and student readings. (Post-production note: contemporary American poet Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016] makes for a timely addition to the essay's bibliographic suggestions and also may impart something like a critical mass to the essay's approach to teaching in the rift between poetic ontology and historical poetics.)

- by Eric Lindstrom
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- Poetics, Pedagogy, Robert Frost, Historical Poetics
- by Humaira Siddiqua Malik
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- Comparative Literature, English Literature, Poetry, English

Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is a ring composition three levels deep: 1 2 Ω 2’ 1’. The central section consists of lines 9 through 12 cuts across the boundary between the second (ll. 6-10) and third (ll. 11-14) stanzas. There is a subtle shift in tense in line 16 in which the poet in effect travels back into the past, at the moment of decision captured in the poem, so that he can anticipate the present moment in which the poem unfolds. Thus the end of the poem rejoins the beginning, not merely through the repetition of a line, but through a trick in time.

- by Bill Benzon
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- Poetry, Poetics, Contemporary Poetry, Robert Frost

What but design of darkness to appall? –
If design govern in a thing so small.
In the above lines from Robert Frost’s poem “Design”, the speaker meditates upon the death of a moth and finds that death planned in advance. This plan appears to be perfect but at the same time a dark one. However, by leaving the question unanswered, the speaker not only hints at the fear inspiring aspect of this design but also on its alternate possibility of relief.

- by Gatha Rijal
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- Design, Robert Frost, Spiders, Poems Analysis

POETIC ADDRESS AND INTIMATE READING: THE OFFERED HAND by William Waters. Originally in _Literary Imagination_ 2.2 (2000); reprinted in abridged form (approximately this version) in _Poetry and Dialogism: Hearing Over_, ed. Mara Scanlon &... more

- by William Waters
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- Comparative Literature, Greek Literature, Emily Dickinson, Poetry

The research paper will talk about the utopic nature of Frost’s poems. I will be analysing three of his poems, namely “Two Tramps in Mud Time”, “Design”, and “The Census Taker”. The paper will give a brief insight into the concept of utopia. It will explore the themes of space and time and how Frost adheres to them. Frost was American by birth, but he talks about the life in the England countryside. The world in his poems seems alienated from yet joined to the rest of the world.
This paper will be divided into three sections, each section dedicated to one poem. “Two Tramps in Mud Time” is one of the rare biographical poems of Frost. The paper will observe the parallels of his life as a farmer. It shall also explore the theme of want vs need, and the idea of giving up a job because of another’s need. “Design” talks about the striking beauty of a coincidence. The paper will explore the idea of the importance of time, in accordance with this poem. It will also glance into the idea of coincidence vs planning. Lastly, the paper will explore the idea of uninhabited spaces in “The Census Taker”. It will explore the idea of living in solitude as opposed to living amongst other members of the society.

- by Kajal Advani
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- English Literature, Poetry, Sonnets, William Wordsworth