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The Poetry of Robert Frost
The span of poet Robert Frost's life (1874–1963) affected his poetry, as both his life and the forms of his poetry embraced both 19th century and more modern 20th century styles. For example,...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
In each of these beloved poems by Robert Frost, the poet uses nature as an extended metaphor for a part of the human condition—whether emotional, relational, or moral. In "Stopping by Woods on a...
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Crossing the Bar
The most obvious comparison between Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" and Robert Frost's "Once by the Pacific" is that both of them deal with water, specifically the sea. Of course, Frost's sea...
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Robert Frost
In the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, the roads symbolize choice, while the "yellow wood" could refer to a concept like "life." According to this interpretation, the poet is therefore...
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Robert Frost
Frost's poem is profound in how it shows existence as something that is mutable. The only permanent element in consciousness is that there is change. There is something profound in this. Frost...
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The Poetry of Frost
Robert Frost’s poetry appears deceptively simple; however, his poems have more than one level of meaning. His work typifies the New England area and the beauty of its landscape. Frost inserts...
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Birches
Frost uses metaphor, simile and onomatopoeia to express his emotions throughout Birches. Although there are no individual stanzas there are natural breaks in the poem which allow for a changing...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
Personification occurs when the author or poet gives a non-human object human qualities, traits, or sensibilities. Frost begins his poem "A Brook in the City" with personification as he describes...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
Robert Frost, the essential American poet, seemed to write simple poems with simple words and simple messages. However, when you begin to study his words, complex subtlety emerges. This line, "A...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
"The Housekeeper" was originally published by Robert Frost in a collection entitled North of Boston. Many of the poems, including "The Housekeeper" hinted or included details of a rural setting....
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
Frost's poem "The Death of the Hired Man" brings up many different perspectives through the lives of the characters therein. There's the farmer and his wife, the old man and the young man. Life in...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
Frost uses several forms of imagery to describe nature. In the first stanza, after setting the poetic persona's action and location ("I go through the mowing field"), Frost applies visual, tactile...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
The point Frost is making in "On Looking Up By Chance at the Constellations" is that changes in the night sky happen very infrequently, but changes on Earth are not much more frequent. He...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
Perhaps the best way to assess the impact of Robert Frost is to look at his reception – in other words, the ways in which his poetry has circulated and the types of audience it has attained....
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
Evaluating the influence of Robert Frost is difficult because, although his work is superb, and distinctive, it doesn’t have the strong and immediately obvious stylistic hallmarks one finds in...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
In a skillfully crafted poem verse metrics always relates to the development of the mood of the poem. Thus, how Frost's "Once by the Pacific" is "set up" [sonnet]--which is "structure"--and the...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
Frost's meaning is revealed in the last two couplets of the aabb ccdd eeff gg rhyme scheme sonnet having two voltas (line 5 and 9) and a paradoxical resolution in the last couplet. There are...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
The theme of this poem centers around choices, and which ones bring us the fullest life as human beings. In "The Road Not Taken," we see someone in the woods at the fork in the road...pondering...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
Harold Wilson is a character mentioned in Robert Frost’s poem “The Death of the Hired Man.” Wilson functions as a kind of foil to another character in the poem – the elderly hired man,...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
In "The Death of the Hired Man" Silas the former hired hand has come "home" to die. In answer to your question, it isn't so much that Warren doesn't need a hired man; it's more that he doesn't...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
It might be best to begin with a famous poem, The Road Not Taken." The entire poem is a metaphor for the decision we make in life which, while they may not seem all that important in the moment,...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
Frost is known as a metricist. Frost said, "I would sooner write free verse as play tennis with the net down." He also said, "There are only two meters: strict and loose iambic." The following...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
"Fire and Ice," for all its brevity, develops a profound theme and raises intriguing questions in regard to human nature. The primary literary device in the poem is that of implied metaphor. Fire...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
The central theme of the poem is really a question. Which is more important, justice or mercy? The poem is a dialogue between a couple who own a farm and have periodically hired an undependable...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
The conversation between Warren and Mary in "The Death of the Hired Man" takes place in the winter.Mary begins the conversation with Warren because Silas, their "hired man", has...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
The theme of Robert Frost's poem is the destuctive potential of hatred and desire.In his poem, Frost explores with amazingly eloquent brevity two forces which have the potential to bring...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
It would be very easy to prove that the main theme of the Robert Frost poem, "Fire and Ice," is the destructive nature of emotions run amok. Hate or love--if not controlled can consume us.
