Characteristics of Robert Frost's Poetry

1. Paper Name : The American Literature
Presentation Topic :Characteristics of Robert Frost's Poetry
Name: Solanki Pintu V
Sem : 3
Roll No : 29
Enrollment No: PG15101037
Email: solankipintu1991@gmail.com
Submitted to :M.K. BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY
Department Of English

2. 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.

3. Characteristics of Robert Frost's Poetry
● Clarity and Simplicity
● Realism
● His Philosophy
● Dramatic Quality
● Metaphysical Elements In Robert
Frost’s Poetry
● Lyrical Quality In Robert Frost’s Poetry

4. 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 doesn’t give any room for ambiguity.

5. ● Clarity and simplicity in Frost shouldn’t 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”

6. ● Simplicity is the hallmark of Frost’s 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.

7. 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. "

8. ● 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.

9. ● Frost doesn’t want to escape he knows that
‘Earth is the right place for love’. This fact
shows how much Frost believes in reality.
● Frost’s 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.

10. 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.

11. ● 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)

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. ● As Randal Jarrell says,
“Frost’s 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.”

15. ● 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.

16. Metaphysical Elements In Robert
Frost’s 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.

17. Lyrical Quality In Robert Frost’s
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 Frost’s reputation is based on such
lyrics as 'Stopping By Woods' and 'The Road Not
Taken'.

18. References
➔ http://ijellh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/14.-V.N.-SUDH
➔ https://allpoetry.com/journal/8204843-A-Critical-Appreciation
➔ http://englishliterature123.blogspot.in/2010/10/robert-frosts-p
➔ http://ravibhaliya.blogspot.in/2016/01/characteristics-of-robe
➔ http://ashvamegh.net/realistic-optimism-robert-frost/
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