This document provides biographical information about American poet Robert Frost and analyzes his work. It notes that Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco to Scottish and colonial American parents. It discusses critics' comparisons of Frost's work to Wordsworth and analyzes themes of nature, humanity, loneliness and isolation in his poetry. The document also examines Frost's style which features realism, symbolism and restraint. It considers debates around labeling Frost as a "poet of nature" and concludes that his poetry features realistic characters and events.
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Robert Frost as a Poet of Nature
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3. Name : Gohil Binkalba
Semenster : 3
Roll no : 6
Enrollment no : 2069108420170010
Email id : Binkalbagohil1995gmail.com
Year : 2017
Submitted to : Department of English
M.K.B.U.BHAV,UNIVERSITY
4. Born in San Francisco on March 26,
1874.
His mother Isabella hailed from
Scotland,
Father William Prescott was a
descendent of colonist Nicholas Frost.
Frost Lawrence high school in 1892.
Frost had a great association with rural
life,
But lived in the city and published his
first poem in Lawrence high school
magazine.
5. Frost himself said: I think I am not a nature
poet. Critics compare him with William
Wordsworth and find certain similarities
and dissimilarities.
Frost Sentence
6. Frost is one of the most
popular and honored poets in
America.
Robert Graves called him
“the voice of America”.
He wrote against traditional
rules of poetry.
He wanted poetry to be free
flowing and natural as love.
8. His poetry has all the elements of modernism
such as symbolism, realism, existentialism,
social constraints, alienation, isolation and
destruction caused by industrialization.
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10. 1. Frost’s tenderness, sadness and humor, which
are adulterated with variety and hard
complacency.
11. 1. 2. Frost’s sorrowful acceptance of things as
they are without his exaggerating them or
explaining them away.
1. His many poems in which there are real
people with their real speech and real
thoughts and real emotions.
12. 1. Subtlety and exactness.
2. Frost truly said of himself, “I am not a
regionalist, I am a realist. I wrote
about realms of democracy and
realms of the spirit”.
3. 5. A classical understatement and
restraint.
13. “Stopping by the woods
on a snowy evening”.
On the surface level, it
tells of a man’s
temptation to answer the
strange call of the woods
by getting into it and of
his resisting the
temptation by thinking
of the promises he has to
keep.
14. Frost is considered the
pastoral poet and a poet of
nature.
His poems have unique
quality of being poems of
nature than rest of the poets of
nature.
Yet there is a great
controversy as to whether he
should be recognize as a poet
of nature.
15. He writes of tramps, the farmers, and the hired man. His
characters are real. Along with normal people, he also portrays
abnormal and unbalanced people, confused, nervous and
fearful people. Most of the characters are same and balanced
who reaches to the logical conclusions themselves at the end
like husband and wife.
16. Frost’s poetry is full of realism rather than
fiction. The characters, events, and places
are real, that is the reason why reader feels
affiliated to his poetry.
Conclusion