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Paper Name : The American Literature

Presentation Topic :Characteristics of Robert Frost's Poetry

Name: Solanki Pintu VSem : 3

Roll No : 29

Enrollment No: PG15101037

Email: [email protected]

Submitted to :M.K. BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY Department Of English

About The Author

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet.

His work was initially published in England before it was published in America.

He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.

Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.

Characteristics of Robert Frost's Poetry

Clarity and Simplicity

Realism

His Philosophy

Dramatic Quality

Metaphysical Elements In Robert Frosts Poetry

Lyrical Quality In Robert Frosts Poetry

Clarity and Simplicity

Simplicity is the style of man is suitable for Frost.

His poems are so simple that an ordinary reading can understand the impulse and meaning.

Precisely his poetry is clear and specific.

He doesnt give any room for ambiguity.

Clarity and simplicity in Frost shouldnt be mistaken for triviality.

There are many who accuse Frost of shallowness of thought.

Willingly or unwillingly, one should treat Frost as a simple bard with a gift for verifying

Simplicity is the hallmark of Frosts poems; the poet of nature keeps his poems in their natural figure, without any artificial make up to decorate them. But it is said that slow waters run deep; this simplicity is very subtle and deceptive.

Realism

"Frost truly said of himself, "I am not a regionalist, i am a realist. I write about realms of democracy and realms of the spirit. "

Frost is a realist in the sense that he sees life steadily.

In stopping by woods on a snowy evening the best known poems of the twentieth century, reminds every reader of hid purpose, promises and obligations.

It expresses the conflict felt by everyone.

Frost doesnt want to escape he knows that Earth is the right place for love. This fact shows how much Frost believes in reality.

Frosts realism is enriched with his optimism.

He never with dreams from the bitter realistic of life rather he has presented all the terrible realistic of life ion has the different poems.

His Philosophy

Robert Frost has a balanced philosophy of life.

He is neither a pessimist to see darkness all around nor an optimistic fool who fails to understand the practical and realistic sense of life and nature.

Though sometimes he is frightened by nature yet he enjoys it his fill.

About social life also he remains a practical thinker who bases every experience on some or the other cause.

This philosophy is at the same time modern and scientific and at the same time not non-relogious. Some say the world will end in fire Some say in ice. (Fire and Ice)

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to before I sleep.(Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening)Thus his philosophy is based on rationality not on any ununderstandable mysticism.

Dramatic Quality

A very important feature of Frost 's Poetry it is Dramatic Quality.

Poems like' Home Burial ',' Blue Barriers 'and ' The witch of coos ' the best example of Frost' s genius in writing Dramatic poems.

In 'Home Burial' we have a man and wife facing a crisis.

The wife is almost cracking up under the strain of the grief caused by death of their child.

As Randal Jarrell says, Frosts virtues are extraordinary. No other living poet has written so well about the actions of ordinary men; his wonderful dramatic monologues or dramatic scenes came out of knowledge of people that few poets have had, and they are written in a verse that uses, sometimes with absolute mystery, the rhythms of actual speech.

In Home Burial and The Death of Hired Man, the scenes and dialogues, characters with complete narrative skill are as shown as we see a stage-play.

Metaphysical Elements In Robert Frosts Poetry

Robert Frost is a metaphysical poet in the tradition of Emerson and Emily Dickenson.

This means that he tries to go beyond the seen to unseen.

As in all great metaphysical poetry, the tension increases between the simple feet and the mystery which surrounds it, until the total meaning flashes in the final morals.

Lyrical Quality In Robert Frosts Poetry

In many of his best-known poems, Robert Frost employs the oldest of old ways to be new, namely the lyric form.

The essential feature of a lyric is its musicality, and a lyric achieves its musical effects by traditional techniques of meter, rhyme, and stanzaic patterns.

Much of Robert Frosts reputation is based on such lyrics as 'Stopping By Woods' and 'The Road Not Taken'.

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https://allpoetry.com/journal/8204843-A-Critical-Appreciation-of-Robert-Frost-s-Poetry-by-maqsood-hasni

http://englishliterature123.blogspot.in/2010/10/robert-frosts-poetic-style.html

http://ravibhaliya.blogspot.in/2016/01/characteristics-of-robert-frost-s-poetry.html

http://ashvamegh.net/realistic-optimism-robert-frost/

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