Robert Frost!?

Question

NEED HELP, ANY THEMES PERTAINING TO THE LITERATURE OF ROBERT FROST. SO FAR I HAVE NATURE, REALITY AND TONE/MOOD. ANY HELP WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED.

THANK YOU!!

Answer 1

"Of all his poetic elements, Frost's style seems the hardest to pin down. Actually one cannot pin it down, but something could be said to further our un-enlightenment. Let's begin with what Frost said about style in a letter to his friend Louis Untermeyer dated March 10, 1924

Dear Old Louis:

Since last I saw you I have come to the conclusion that style in prose or verse is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. Let the sound of Stevenson go through your mind empty and you will realize that he never took himself other than as an amusement. Do the same with Swinburne and you will see that he took himself as a wonder. Many sensitive natures have plainly shown by their style that they took themselves lightly in self-defense. They are the ironists. Some fair to good writers have no style and so leave us ignorant of how they take themselves. But that is the one important thing to know: because on it depends our likes and dislikes. A novelist seems to be the only kind of writer who can make a name without a style: which is only one more reason for not bothering with the novel. I am not satisfied to let it go with the aphorism that the style is the man. The man's ideas would be some element then of his style. So would his deeds. But I would narrow the definition. His deeds are his deeds; his ideas are his ideas. His style is the way he carries himself toward his ideas and deeds. Mind you if he is down-spirited it will be all he can do to have the ideas without the carriage. The style is out of his superfluity. It is the mind skating circles round itself as it moves forward. Emerson had one of the noblest least egotistical of styles. By comparison with it Thoreau's was conceited, Whitman's bumptious. Carlyle's way of taking himself simply infuriates me. Longfellow took himself with the gentlest twinkle.

Now that Frost explained it, do we understand his style? Well...no! Here's another excerpt from
Frost's lecture before the Winter Institute of Literature at the University of Miami, in 1935. The talk was entitled "Before the Beginning and After the End of a Poem":
Frost said, "In the creative act, a certain impulse or state of mind
precedes the writing of the poem. Next comes what Stevenson called 'a
visitation of style', a power to find words which will somehow convey the
impulse."

Certainly an essential element of Frost's style is his choice of words or diction. He uses everyday words you would use in conversation. Frost writes his sentences with meter and rhythm to enhance their beauty. He also uses many poetic devices adding to the craftsmanship of the poem".

Answer 2

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work frequently drew inspiration from rural life in New England, using the setting to explore complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was highly honored during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes.

Answer 3

the wonder of the human mind/human nature/human ways of being. The poem "Mending Wall" is spent almost exclusively discussing why any person would want to seclude oneself from their neighbor, why they would constantly resist change, why they assume what they were taught as a child would stand forever. The poem talks about a barrier between neighbors, lying (or at least pondering about lying), and has an overall unanswered question of why are people the way they are.

Answer 4

Natures first green is gold
her hardest hue to hold
her early leafs a flower
but only so an hour
so leaf subsides to leaf
then eden sank to grief
then dawn turned into day
nothing gold can stay

Answer 5

choices from "two roads diverged in a woods."
carry for the dying and forgiveness from "The death of a hired man."
both poems are masterpieces in american lit.

Answer 6

he also talks about the end of the world in some of his poems like fire and ice, and once by the pacific. in fire and ice, he is sorta lighthearted but in the other one he is more serious.

Answer 7

i loved the one nothing gold can stay
i don't know it off the top of my head but definitely look for it b/c it is really good

Answer 8

His brother Jack nipped at your nose.

Answer 9

"The Road not Taken" - Choices taken in life and how they influence you...