Research Paper On Robert Frost

Robert Frost has written poems all of his life. At Frost’s graduation, he was nominated class poet and shortly after graduation received a fifteen dollar check for his poem, “My Butterfly”. This instantly launched his career as a professional poet. Selling only a mere thirteen poems after “My Butterfly”, Frost attended Dartmouth and Harvard where he taught for a living. After being rejected and discouraged by American magazines, Frost moved, along with his family, to England where he could “write and be poor without further scandal in the family” (Robert Frost, N.P.). From his writing, readers during his time were able to see his sincere and natural speaking that are displayed in his poems. Another characteristic that is apparent in Frost’s

One example of human alienation can be seen in Frost’s poem “Mending Wall”. In the very beginning of the poem, Frost writes, “And on a day we meet to walk the line / And set the wall between us once again. / We keep the wall between us as we go” (lines 13-15). These lines represent how individuals and communities build walls between each other because that is supposedly how good neighbors are to grow (American Literature, 1913). Unfortunately, building those walls only cause “neighbors” to become estranged. The point Frost is trying to get across is that as walls are built, barriers multiply. As these barriers multiply, tension catalyzes which causes an “emotional imbalance” (Robert Frost’s Major Themes, 98). An emotional imbalance substitutes for an inefficient and lonely community, a community that needs to be filled with

The opening line in Frost’s “Desert Places” is, “Snow falling and night falling fast” (line 1). The main point in this line is to strike fear within the reader and also provide the reader with something relatable. Winter and darkness are considered frightening to most people, especially when experienced alone. The narrator states, “I am too absent-spirited to count” (line 7). This line goes back to one of Frost’s initial thoughts about alienation and loneliness. Frost believes that loneliness leads to insanity. Being absent-spirted has the reader wondering if sanity will stay by the narrator’s side until the end or if his lack of realization will cost him everything. The word “lonely” is repeated three separate times in the third stanza, accentuating the emptiness that surrounds the narrator (American Literature, 1923). This type of alienation is in need of fellowship, self-understanding, and a greater understanding of the narrator’s environment (Robert Frost’s Major Themes,