This document compares the works of William Wordsworth and Robert Frost. It discusses their backgrounds, styles, and themes. Both poets wrote about nature, but Wordsworth focused on universal human experiences while Frost depicted specific regional settings and ordinary people. The document also analyzes their poems "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Fire and Ice", noting their forms, characterizations, and messages about nature and the potential ends of the world.

1. COMPARISON BETWEEN ROBERT FROST
AND WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

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3. William Wordsworth & Robert Frost

4. William Wordsworth
◦ William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch
the Romantic Age in English Literature with their Joint publication Lyrical ballads 1798.
◦ He was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important
intellects.
◦ Wordsworth’s deep love for the “beauteous forms” of the natural world was established early.
◦ The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed and seven year composed by the government in
1843.

5. Robert Frost
◦ Robert Frost was an American poet. His work initially published in England before it was published in the
united Sates. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American Colloquial
Speech.
◦ Frost Frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to
examine complex social and philosophical themes.
◦ Frequently honored during his lifetime ,frost is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer for Poetry. He was
awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works on July 22, 1961, frost was named poet
laureate of Vermont.

6. William Wordsworth & Robert Frost
Wordsworth
◦ William Wordsworth the Forerunner of the
Romantic Movement in England.
◦ Wordsworth’s poetry “ begins in delight and ends in
delight”.
◦ Wordsworth is genuinely simple. And his poetry
plain words and plain thought. He is plain both in
manner and matter.
◦ The Subjects of the poetry are universal and true
of all people.
◦ Like Woods, flowers, birches, weeds ,birds and tree
etc.
Robert Frost
◦ Frost is often designated by students and critics as
the American poetical parallel.
◦ Frost poetry, use his own word “begins in delight
and ends in wisdom”.
◦ Frost is deceptively. And his poetry contains plain
words but complex thoughts.
◦ The subjects of the poetry are local or regional.
Their poetry springs from specific areas.
◦ He wrote about ordinary people-Farmers and
Workers were the subjects of his poem

7. ◦ It is widely believed that Wordsworth exerted profound influence on Frost in Writing his poems, especially
those on nature. In philosophy and style, Frost and Wordsworth appear both similar and dissimilar.
◦ Both poets Consciously avoided the rhetorical extravaganza of Shakespeare and grandiloquence of John
Milton.
◦ Frost was able to capture the natural tone of human conversation. His poem , A Boy’s Will, captures
the reader’s attention not only for the theme but also for plainness of expression. Ideas, emotions and
feelings are expressed in Ordinary Speeches. The same is true of Wordsworth.
◦ Both are democratic in style as they speak “ to men in the tongue all men know because they are
men”.
◦ It is interested in locating the relation between nature and human. It is true that both poets sought
to find solace and delight in nature.
◦ The poem Birches offers the best example of how the poet blends observation and imagination,
fact and fancy, feeling and wisdom.

8. ◦ Frost is an environmentalist, and Wordsworth is pantheist. In New Hampshire, Frost declares:
“The more the sensibility I am
The more I seem to want my mountains wild”.
Both are optimistic in their attitude to life. As Johnathan Swift had all complaints against humankind , Frost had all the
complaints against nature. But still he would seek recourse to nature, when he becomes weary of urban life.
In Birches, he says:
"Earth's the right place for love,
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
"Poetry, to Frost, was a record of personal experience. To Wordsworth, it was "the image of man and nature. Its object is
truth, not individual and local but general and operative; not standing external testimony but carried alive into the heart by
passion." Thus Wordsworth's poetry is a direct revelation of reality, an authentic version of human phenomena. To
Wordsworth, nature was the source of learning, ideas, power and values; nature was the fountain of inspiration and solace in
times of mental agony. Nature appears to him as his 'guardian, nurse' and teacher. In times of despair and suffering, nature
acts as the spring of moral strength and confidence for psychic survival. In nature Wordsworth feels "a presence that
disturbs" him with "the joys of elevated thoughts."

9. Poems
I Wandered lonely as a cloud
◦ The poem four six- line stanzas of this poem
follow a quatrain- couplet rhyme Scheme :
ABABCC. Each line is metered in iambic
tetrameter.
◦ This simple poem, one of the loveliest and most
famous in the Wordsworth canon, revisits the
familiar subjects of nature and memory, this time
with a particularly spare, musical eloquence.
Fire and Ice
◦ Fire and Ice is a popular poem by Robert Frost
that discusses the end of the world, likening the
elemental force of fire with the emotions of
desire, and ice and with hate.
◦ The poem is written in a single nine line stanza,
which greatly narrows in the last two lines. The
poem’s meter is an irregular mix of iambic
tetrameter and dimeter and rhyme ABA ABC
BCB.

10. ◦ The characterization of the sudden occurrence of
memory – the daffodils “ flash upon the inward
eye/ which is the bliss of solitude”.
◦ The Speaker is metaphorically compared to a natural
object, a cloud –
◦ “ I wandered lonely as a cloud
◦ That floats on high…”, and the daffodils are
continually personified as human beings, dancing
◦ and “tossing their heads” in “ a crowd, a host”.
◦ This technique implies an inherent unity between
man and human.
◦ Message: Nature’s beauty with a mix of Happiness
and Loneliness.
◦ The Speaker is two different scenarios for the end
of the World and some people think the world will
end in fire.
◦ The Speaker begins by relating that, when it comes
to how the world end for example in poem , a
potential world- ending “fire” could be something
like the asteroid that most likely destroyed the
dinosaurs.
◦ “ice” Could relate to a future ice age, or a
extinguishment of the sun. and naturalistic ends of
the world.
◦ Message : A metaphor for human perceptions of
desires and hatred.

11. Citations
◦ https://www.thedailystar.net/news
◦ https://ayushnanda.com/history-indian-aesthetics-brief-notes
◦ https://blogs.transparent.com/hindi/alankar-figure-of-speech