A Synoptic view of the Poems of Robert Frost
Robert Frost is a New England poet .New England consists of the
states of America like New
Hamshire, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont and
Massachusetts,Rode Island and this New England attains symbolic meaning in
Frost’s poetry. Needful to mention here
that the inhabitants of these areas are generally called ‘Yankees’. Robert
Frost was born in 1874, towards the end of 19th century . He got a
long life and he is regognised as a famous poet of both and abroad. He was
almost an American unofficial poet. He had so many experiences specially of
farming. He was very close to the rural New Englandes. His life and art
projects the essential qualities of New England- the fresh delight in the
bounties of Nature, the plainless of speech and colloquial rhythm, the
canniness, prudence and wisdom, the deep underlying insight into the secrets of
the human soul. He is rightly called the
poet , the singer , the seer and the bard of the American people. He was very
much close to the soil of New England and that’s why he was the lover of
reality. He had in him romantic impulses but his romantic impulses are toned
down with reality.
He had both the experience of fantasy and reality. In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” the poet as a farmer stops his carriage and looks at the beauties of the snowy evening. In the last four lines of the poem the poet expresses that he would complete the journey of his life before his death. Frost was very much a realist but he had philosophical knowledge about the mysterious charms of life. Wood plays a very important role in Frost’s poetry. It symbolizes the strange charms, mysteries and the temptations of life. New England also plays an important role in his poetry. It is more than New England .It is the stage of life – the background against which the joys and sorrows of life, the problem of a modern man are shown – the problems like his sense of loneliness and isolation, his frustration, his confusion, his problem of choice, his distance from man and nature and his thoughts about the design and destruction of the world.
He had both the experience of fantasy and reality. In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” the poet as a farmer stops his carriage and looks at the beauties of the snowy evening. In the last four lines of the poem the poet expresses that he would complete the journey of his life before his death. Frost was very much a realist but he had philosophical knowledge about the mysterious charms of life. Wood plays a very important role in Frost’s poetry. It symbolizes the strange charms, mysteries and the temptations of life. New England also plays an important role in his poetry. It is more than New England .It is the stage of life – the background against which the joys and sorrows of life, the problem of a modern man are shown – the problems like his sense of loneliness and isolation, his frustration, his confusion, his problem of choice, his distance from man and nature and his thoughts about the design and destruction of the world.
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