Imagery and Modernization: A Study of Robinson and Frost's Poetry

The poets Edwin Robinson and Robert Frost describe imagery, attitudes, and perception within the poems Miniver Cheevy and After Apple Picking in relation to the rapid modernization of America 's modern society in the early nineteenth century. Destruction and progression influenced the nation’s geographic looks. Values and traditions began to shift into a much more complex perspective. Frost and Robinson, in multiple ways, used the idea of imagery in poetry to respond to the chaos and tensions that emerged within the United States. Robinson explicates a man in despair reflecting to the past and comparing the events to a time much rather preferred. After Apple Picking by Frost, a poem where the exhaustion and drowsiness of apple picking becomes more of a suspicion in the man 's mind, raises the question “is it really a slumber or reality with a deeper meaning?”

Robinson expresses the character 's view towards past and

Metaphors, manipulation, and imagery become a key component in expressing their response to this rapid modernization. In both poems there is a sense of negativity within the character’s life. The negativity that highways brought. People began to move more and go to more places leaving behind the actual values, as Robert Expresses within his poem Miniver Cheevy. Edwin Robinson Freud 's Analysis relates to the scientific modernization. The analysis expresses the idea of how to cope with repressed feelings. It states in the passage that individuals are trapped within a repressive culture. The feelings the poets express throughout both poems of how life was taken into a different course. Frost and Robinson, in multiple ways, used the idea of imagery in poetry to respond to the chaos and tensions that emerged within the United States. In my perspective from within the poems much more was lost than