This document summarizes characteristics of Robert Frost's poetry. It discusses his background as an American poet whose work was initially published in England. It then analyzes key elements of Frost's poetry, including its clarity and simplicity, realism, philosophical nature, dramatic quality, metaphysical elements, and lyrical quality. Specific poems are referenced to illustrate these characteristics.

1. Characteristics of the poetry of
Robert Frost
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2. About The Author
 Robert Lee Frost
born on 26
march,1874 and
died on 29
January,1963.
 Robert frost was an
American poet.
 His work was initially
published in
England before it
was published in
America.

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 He is highly regards for his realistic depictions
of rural life and his command of American
colloquial speech.
 Frost was honoured Frequently during his
lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer prizes 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.

4. Robert Frost’s poems
 Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
 Fire and ice
 The road not taken
 Mending wall
 Home Burial
 The witch of coos
 Blue Barriers

5. Characteristics of Robert Frost’s
Poetry
1. Clarity and Simplicity
2. Realism
3. His Philosophy
4. Dramatic Quality
5. Metaphysical Elements
6. Lyrical Quality

6. 1.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.
 Clarity and simplicity in frost should not be
mistaken for triviality.

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 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”.
 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.

8. 2.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.”
 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 20th century, reminds
every reader of purpose, promises and
obligations.

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 It expresses the conflict felt by everyone.
 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. 3.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.

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 This philosophy is at the same time modern
and scientific and at the same time not non-
relogious .
 Thus his philosophy is based on rationality not
on any ununderstandable mysticism.

12. 4.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.

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 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.

14. 5.Metaphysical Elements
 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
increase between the simple feet and the
mystery which surrounds it, until the total
meaning flashes in the final morals.

15. 6.Lyrical Quality
 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’.