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timenei
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Comment on intellectual elements of Frost's poetry.

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Posted by timenei on Wednesday March 25, 2009 at 4:44 AM and tagged with intellectual, poetry, robert frost.

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  1. engtchr5 Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

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    One intellectual element of Frost's poetry is that of naturalism. While his work may not be the blatant celebration of mankind's bond with nature like other authors (Emerson, Thoreau, etc.), his poems are a salute to nature in a different way.

    Take, for instance, "Nothing Gold can Stay:"

     "Nature's first green is gold,

    Her hardest hue to hold,

    Her early leaf's a flower,

    but only so an hour.

    So dawn goes down to day,

    Nothing gold can stay."

    The images presented invoke the presence and understanding of nature itself, much the same as other Frost works do, like "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," or "Birches." The naturalism that Frost displays in his work is definitely one of the more intellectual elements therein.

     

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    Posted by engtchr5 on Wednesday March 25, 2009 at 12:02 PM