Abstract

In this research we try to discover the insight of “Robert Frost's Poetry” in a holistic perspective. The key heart of the study is on “Robert Frost's” and his relation with “Poetry”. The research also examines various characteristics of “Robert Frost's Poetry” and tries to measure its effect. Lastly the research illustrates a variety of factors of “Robert Frost's Poetry” and tries to describe the overall effect of it.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Discussion and Analysis

Conclusion

Robert Frost

Introduction

Robert Frost occupies a unique position in American poetry. He is more widely known than any other th-century American poet, yet his reputation among critics of literary modernism has tended to lag behind the reputations of his contemporaries, such as T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams, even as his book sales have surpassed theirs and his popular acclaim has grown. In his use of New England settings and weather to explore questions about nature, reality, and human consciousness, Frost situated his work in a line of descent from th-century American poets, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson. Later th-century American writers, such as William Bronk, Robert Creeley, George Oppen, and Galway Kinnell, have continued to explore these issues and extend this tradition.

Discussion and Analysis

Although Frost is strongly identified with rural New England, he was born on March , , in San Francisco, California, where he lived until shortly after his father's death in . Frost's family then moved to the mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, where his paternal grandparents lived. Obviously life in a busy mill town was very different from life on the isolated farms where Frost and his family lived for much of his young adulthood, especially in the years before rural electricity, telephones, automobiles, and paved rural roads. By the time Frost moved to the rural New England of his poems, he was years old and married, with a young daughter. He had worked in mills ( hours a day, six days a week) and had made two abortive attempts at college (one semester at Dartmouth in and he was at Harvard. In Frost and his family moved to England, where they lived until . By the time he returned to America at age , Frost had published his first two books of poetry, A Boy's Will and North of Boston , to favorable reviews. It is important to note that this success came years before modernist touchstones, such as Eliot's The Waste Land or James Joyce's Ulysses , drastically changed the literary landscape. Frost went on to win four Pulitzer Prizes and to receive honorary degrees from dozens of colleges and universities in the United States and England, to visit Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow during the height of the cold war, and, at the age of , to read his poetry at the presidential inauguration of John F. Kennedy (Dickstein, 123).

Frank Lentricchia explains the tendency of literary critics to think of Frost as something other than modernist by pointing out the problem ...