Miya Brown
Dr. Kay
ENG-102
12 May 2016 Depicting the Theme Robert Frost is one of the most popular poets in the twentieth century. He was frequently honored throughout his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer prizes for his poetry. Even though Frost has always been associated with New England, he was born and raised in San Francisco(Anderson). Frost had a rough life, but he found that writing poetry was “a momentary stay against confusion” (Bruce). Frost believed writing poetry involved listening for and adapting to the rhythm of the poem, which he called “sentence sounds”. This way his poems did not only talk about life; they enacted it. The way
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Imagery is a representations of the sensory details in a literary work that typically employs one or more of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell) (Werlock). Frost often uses imagery in his poems to help the reader depict what theme he is trying to display. For example, in “The Road Not Taken” frost uses imagery when he says “Two Roads Diverged in A Yellow wood”, Creating an image in the reader’s mind leading them to believe it is autumn (Ogilvie). Frost also displays imagery when he says “And be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth.” In this stanza Frost is creating an image of a person who must choose between two paths that head in different directions (Andrews). The imagery in this poem plays a major part in creating the theme of the poem, which is individualism. In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” the speaker indicates that “Nature's first green is gold/ Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour”. This poem is focused on spring, new life, and its re-emergence after the hibernation and death …show more content…
It is found in almost all of frosts work. For instance, in “The Road Not Taken” frost symbolizes the roads as life decisions showing that one should not follow rest but take the road less traveled by. He regrets that he cannot follow both roads, but since that is not possible, he pauses for a long while to consider his choice(Andrews1-3). In “Nothing Gold Can Stay” change is symbolized by the flowers changing each season. The gold represents what is most prized, spring's first green and first flower. But all beauty is brief (Fagan). In the poem “Out, Out” the saw symbolizes how some people can never take responsibility for their own actions. People have to learn to except their own consequences and not blame others for their
The poem states that everything eventually comes to an end and that not even gold can remain unchanged. The poem explains this theme with many metaphors about everything that’s coming to an end. Freeman explains that “Even the poem's rhymes contribute to this sense of inevitability: Nature's gold we (or She) cannot hold; the flower lasts only an hour; the post flower leaf is like Eden's grief; the coming of day means that dawn's gold cannot stay”(2). The poem explains that everything has a natural cycle and that nothing lasts forever. When the poem states “nothing can stay gold”, Frost looks back at the flower and the time of day and implies that it all comes to an end.
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. His poems are not what they seem to be at first glance. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.
Robert Frost is often known as one of the greatest American poets of all time. Although he is sometimes remembered as hateful and mean spirited, his life was filled with highs and lows. These differentiating periods are represented throughout his poetry. Frost once said that “A poem begins in delight, and ends in wisdom.” As can be seen, this quote not only reflected his poetry, but his life. Though many years of his life were troubled by misfortune, Frost always seemed to persevere. Robert Frost was a talented, thoughtful poet whose life was filled with complexity and tragedy (brainyquote.com).
Frost’s writing was inspired by different things like when he lost a son and daughter due to illness. During this same time he had struggled to make ends meet running a chicken farm and was finding it difficult to get anybody to publish his works. Events like these along with his opinions, other major events in his life, landscape/ his way of life, and British poets he had met from when he would move back and forth from the United States to England helped inspire him to become a poet as well as writing his poetry. While in England one famous poet he became close friends with was Ezra Pound. Ezra...
“Four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco” on March 26, 1874 to his parents Isabelle and William (Dreese). Frost lived with his loving mother, abusive father, and sister Jeanie. “Because his father was a violent drunk, Frost as a child witnessed the fury and rage of his father on a regular basis, and if his mother spoke in disagreement, William became brutal, smashing furniture and yelling” (Dreese). His mother, Isabelle would “run into the streets with her children to find refuge” (Dreese). Frost suffered from “stomach pains and other mysterious ailments” due to all of the emotional situations he went through while he was young (Dreese). His mother home-schooled him after he couldn’t handle going to public school. His love of nature started to evolve as he g...
Frost was also praised for the depth of meaning behind his poetry and yet the simplistic and toneless language in which he used to write it. Randall Jarrell noted the rawness of Frost’s poetry by...
Frost's poem addresses the tragic transitory nature of living things; from the moment of conception, we are ever-striding towards death. Frost offers no remedy for the universal illness of aging; no solution to the fact that the glory of youth lasts only a moment. He merely commits to writing a deliberation of what he understands to be a reality, however tragic. The affliction of dissatisfaction that Frost suffers from cannot be treated in any tangible way. Frost's response is to refuse to silently buckle to the seemingly sadistic ways of the world. He attacks the culprit of aging the only way one can attack the enigmatic forces of the universe, by naming it as the tragedy that it is.
...ert Frost 's poems, I now see his poems in a different perspective. I once thought as many do, that Frost 's poems where about nature but now I know that Frost 's true intention was of “taking life by the throat” (Frost Interview). While others consider him as a nature poet, Frost doesn’t believe himself as one and we can see his perspective in his poems but especially in “Mowing,” “After Apple-Picking,” and “The Road Not Taken.” Frost actually uses nature as an analogy to human life experiences or the troubles that people go through. He reflects these poems back to his personal life and the struggles he has been through also. After researching and reading about Robert Frost I have became very fond his work and enjoy looking deeper into his work trying to picture what he truly meant. While Frost uses a simple idea like nature, he relates it back to human nature.
Frost’s nature poetry interconnects the world of the natural and the world of human beings – Both key elements of his motivation in writing poetry. The harsh reality of nature and the thoughtless expectations in the minds of man scarcely cohere to one another. Frost usually starts with an observation in nature, contemplates it and then connects it to some psychological concern (quoted in Thompson). According to Thompson, “His poetic impulse starts with some psychological concern and finds its way to a material embodiment which usually includes a natural scene” (quoted in Thompson).
In “Birches”, Robert Frost uses imagery and analogies as a way of conveying his message. Frost’s use of imagery and analogies are used in the themes of nature, analogies, and imagination. Frost uses imagery throughout the poem to create a vivid image of how he imagines the Birches to be. His use of comparisons enables the reader to view the Birches in numerous perspectives. His use of imagery and metaphors are appealing because they are pragmatic, and create a clear image for the reader.
strengthens his viewpoint and regards Frost as ―one of the most intuitive poets [. . . h]e sees
One of Robert Frost’s more famous poems, “The Road Not Taken,” has a strong use of imagery in it to create a meaning. Throughout the poem, most people would take the image only painted by the words. With analyzing the diction, you can see the moral truly come to the surface. “Two woods diverged in a yellow wood, / and sorry I could not travel both/ and be one traveler, long I stood/ and looked down one as far as I could/ to where it bent into the undergrowth;” (“The Road Not Taken”, poetryfoundtaion.org) Using imagery, he begins the poem by ...
By both elaborating on the ideas of earlier writers and adding ideas of his own, Robert Frost creates a place for himself in history. The themes of his poems remain true regardless of the time period. Modern readers understand the importance of love and imagination that Frost describes. His messages about death and relationships have guided readers for decades. While technology becomes an ever more important part of the modern world, the continued love of Frost’s poetry shows that people still feel a connection to nature.
Frost uses nature as a reflection of human experiences; just like humanity it can have seasons and life cycles. He uses different scenes to depict a certain mood for readers to step into the psychological happening of a man. The idea of how seasons change, Frost compares it through the life cycles that humans encounter. Contrary to popular opinion, I believe that nature is not Frost’s central theme in his poetry; it is about the relationship that man has with nature in which can be seen from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “The Road Not Taken”, and “An Old Man’s Winter Night.”
Frost was a rural Yankee whose writings reflect everyday experiences-his own experiences, but was one who saw metaphorical dimensions in the everyday things he encountered. These everyday encounters held ground as his subject manner, combined with the rural setting of New England nature, seasons, weather and times of day. Frost’s goal was to write his poetry in such a way that it would cover familiar ground, but in an unfamiliar way or uncommon in expression.