After having an overview over the many different works written by Robert Frost, it is definitely certain that he was indeed a very passionate and meaningful poet. In addition, you could say that Robert Frost is one who has changed the way poems are perceived as today. Through his different writings and methods, Frost managed to reveal to the readers a hidden message in each of his poems. Frost was spectacular in his careful choosing and placement of words. Each word was chosen and placed in certain spots within the poems that we, the readers, would not notice at first glance. Because of this, it would be necessary to take a second look and try to figure out what the poem was trying to convey or what it was really about. One certain quality …show more content…
As I endured trying to create a poem of my own, it has definitely caused me to have more respect for Frost and appreciate more about the different kinds of poems he has written. One of Robert Frost's works, "The Road Not Taken," the narrator is seen being occupied with a difficult decision on his hands. This decision could affect and impact his entire life, for the better or for the worse. This poem was indeed a splendid work of art! The message that this peoms gives off is an inspirational vibe. In one of Robert Frost's works, "Nothing Gold Can Stay," it was indeed a short poem. Although it was very short, it was filled with passion and meaning. As a city person, it was impossible for me to really understand what the message was within the poem. After reading it time after time, the message Frost was trying to convey was to live life to the fullest extent. Even through desperate and rough times, it is crucial to not turn to any temptations that might change a person and affect their loved …show more content…
At the beginning of the poem, the narrator does not have any knowledge about who or what dislikes the wall. Towards the end, it is revealed that "someone" or "something" is the narrator himself. The irony of this poem is truly shown to the readers. All in all, it was what made the poem very unique and probably one of Frost's best works. Finally, one of Frost's beautiful piece of work, "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" showcases a narrator who is restless and has tasks to complete. With the clever mind of Frost and his careful choosing and placement of words, Frost managed to hide what the poem was about. Even if I would have read it more than once or twice, I would definitely have not been able to find the real meaning of the poem. The poem was revealed to be written about death. When the narrator took a glance at the woods, he described it as a lovely, dark, and deep place. What the narrators means by this is that the woods was beautiful, mysterious, and full of meaning. This is what truly fascinates me about this certain type of poem. Although it was written to be dark since it was written about death, it truly shows the struggles a man has to overcome in order to obtain his final
Frost's use of imagery and parallelism of what the dark night sky looks like indicates that he is often alone and wanders the empty, cold streets late at night. This also makes it seem as though he was the only one out at night this late and that he feels depressed about his devastating situation. His uses of, "I have been..." repeatedly in lines 1-7 suggests that his depression is ongoing from the past, unclear if he would recover from his depressing past. The reader can feel through his words that even though he can hear sounds of people ("an interrupted cry") on the streets and occasionally bumps into people, he feels alone in this world. Through his actions, Frost makes it seem as though no one in the world cares for him and he is completely isolated and restricted from interacting with people. At one point in the poem, he hears a cry from a nearby street, but realizes that it was not meant for him and that no one is ever waiting for him. He uses the phrase, "I have passed by the watchman on his beat/And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain, " to show his experiences with depression and how it has made him incapable of interacting in normal society. While normal people are typically associated with the day, enjoying happiness, sunlight, and optimism, he focuses the narrator to being solely with the night, finding
Everyone is a traveler, carefully choosing which roads to follow on the map of life. There is never a straight path that leaves one with but a single direction in which to head. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken'; can be interpreted in many different ways. The shade of light in which the reader sees the poem depends upon her past, present, and the attitude with which she looks toward her future. In any case however, this poem clearly demonstrates Frost’s belief that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man he is.
Frost begins the poem by describing a young boy cutting some wood using a "buzz-saw." The setting is Vermont and the time is late afternoon. The sun is setting and the boy's sister calls he and the other workers to come for "Supper." As the boy hears its dinnertime, he gets excited and cuts his hand on accident. Immediately realizing that the doctor might amputate his hand, he asks his sister to make sure that it does not happen. By the time the doctor arrives, it is too late and the boy's hand is already lost. When the doctor gives him anaesthetic, he falls asleep and never wakes up again. The last sentence of the poem, "since they (the boys family and the doctor) were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" shows how although the boys death is tragic, people move on with their life in a way conveying the idea that people only care for themselves.
Robert Frost masterfully uses straightforward diction and a metaphor in his poem “The Road Not Taken” to portray a speaker who is struggling to make a life changing decision, encouraging both the speaker and the readers towards introspection. Frost dramatizes the internal conflict and consequences involved in making an important decision; an experience all humans face many times in their lives. There will always be times in life when a decision that defines destiny and alters the course, must ultimately be decided. By creating a natural atmosphere, the entire poem emphasizes a metaphor in which a person’s journey through life is compared to a journey on a road. The speaker of the poem is forced to choose one path instead of another, knowing
Frost uses a religious allusion to further enforce the objective of the poem. Whether Frost's argument is proven in a religious or scientific forum, it is nonetheless true. In directly citing these natural occurrences from inanimate, organic things such as plants, he also indirectly addresses the phenomena of aging in humans, in both physical and spiritual respects. Literally, this is a poem describing the seasons. Frosts interpretation of the seasons is original in the fact that it is not only autumn that causes him grief, but summer.
“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”.
The poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, also considered Frost’s masterpiece, not only has the theme of isolation and nature but it was also his first Pulitzer Prize winning poem. “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” is about a man traveling through the woods on a snowy night. He pauses to look at the beauty of nature on private property, but is not able to look at nature for long because he has an extensive distance to travel. As Karen Hardison explains, “"A Soldier" is composed around an extended metaphor that is introduced in the first line: "He is that fallen lance.."
Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape" is about a man, Krapp, who through his spools of tape, looks back on his life whilst alone in his den. He is at present sixty-nine years of age and has retrieved a spool, which dates back thirty years, age thirty-nine. My opinion is that he is an alcoholic and that he has let himself go, so much so, that he wears ragged clothes, his appearance is of a scraggy, unshaven old man. His mind works in the same manner as his body: slow and labored. He refers to his alcoholism by saying "a man in my condition" and his resolutions, in which he promised to drink less. He realizes that he has spent approximately forty percent of his life in bars drinking.
The poem is showing how many people are questioning the way Frost conducts himself and his happiness. Everything in Frost’s poem up until the last stanza is dark and depressing. An example of this is, “Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.” (Frost, Lines 7 and 8). Frost is so consumed in the sadness, that its very dark around him. The last stanza is where Frost’s hopefulness is presented. The happiness is hinted towards, “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” (Frost, Lines 13 to 16). He has promised himself to always keep moving forward and focusing on the goodness that life has to offer. Frost knows that he isn’t quite there yet, but he will not give up. He emphasizes his perseverance by reaping himself twice when he says “And miles to go before I sleep,” (Frost, Line 15). He had a break through and knows that he cannot give up. He is taking the little bit of happiness he knows to transform his life completely too where he is happy with every aspect of it. He is taking the hope that he does have and running with it, not looking back at the despair he feels that surrounds
These aspects help the speaker escape from reality. The snow symbolizes the purity and peacefulness the speaker feels while stopping in the woods. (4) The darkness can symbolize many different things. Some times darkness would be considered evil or dangerous, but I do not think this is the case in this poem. I believe the darkness symbolizes the undisturbed atmosphere of the woods.
Robert Frost, a poet that mastered the imagery of nature through his words. Such vivid details compressed in a few stanzas explains the brilliancy of his writing. He was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco. By the 1920s, he was the most celebrated poet in America; with his fame and honor increasing as well. His poems created themes like nature, communication, everyday life, isolation of the individual, duty, rationality versus imagination, and rural life versus urban life. The most controversial theme of this poems is nature and if his poems have a dark side in them. Readers can easily be guided to the fact that his poems are centered on nature; however, it is not. Frost himself says, "I am not a nature poet. There is almost a person in
The poem appears to question the traditional thoughts and ideas that are carried over to the modern day times. First, the neighbor that is helping to mend the wall repetitively states that "Good fences make good neighbors". This aphorism and the process of mending the wall during spring time appear to anger the narrator. While the saying may be true, it frustrates the narrator that the neighbor cannot provide an explanation for the use or origination of the wall that they are mending. Frost also uses various metaphors and similes to help illustrate the scene and help convey his overall theme of challenging traditional thoughts and traditions. Frost uses the wall as a metaphor for various traditions that we follow and uphold. The narrator challenges the idea of the wall and consistently questions the intent and origin of the
Perhaps one of the most well-known poems in modern America is a work by Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken. This poem consists of four stanzas that depict the story of the narrator traveling through the woods early in the morning and coming upon a fork in the path, where he milled about for a while before deciding upon one of the two paths, wishing he could take both, but knowing otherwise, seeing himself telling of this experience in the future.
Have you ever gone to summer camp and regretted the moment you had to return home to reality? That is what this poem refers to, any sort of loss that you have no control over. Frost's connection of nature to man's loss is apparent. The flower in the poem describes your want, anything you've ever wanted to last longer than possible. The next line, "But only so an hour" describes the limit or boundary to your desire. An example is the fairy tale of Cinderella and the ball. She danced and wanted to make the night last forever, but at the stroke of midnight all was lost. A reference to the lines, "So dawn goes down today, nothing gold can stay." Frost saw a beauty in nature that he wanted to last, that also connected to the beauty of desire that is often uncontrollable.
Robert Frost’s diverse life events truly have a great impact on his poems, including “Acquainted with the Night,” “The Road Not Taken,” and “Out, Out-.” His relations with family, educational background, and experiences on various jobs played important roles in inspiration. Frost is certainly a one of the greatest American poets of all time.