This document discusses the themes in Robert Frost's poetry. It provides biographical information about Frost, lists some of his most famous poems, and analyzes the main themes in his work, including nature, communication, everyday life, isolation, duty, love, and death. The document explains that Frost often depicted rural life and focused on humanity's relationship with the natural world and struggles with communication. It also notes isolation, duty, love, and death as significant recurring themes.

1. Name:- Rathod Neha R.
Class:- M.A. sem-3
Roll no:- 27
Email id:- neharathod108@gmail.com
Year:- 2016-2017
Paper:- 10
Topic:-Theme of Robert frost poetry

2. Theme of Robert frost poetry
 Robert frost was a
great American poet.
 He is highly regarded
for his realistic
depictions of rural life.
 “ home burial ” is one
of the greatest
creation of him.
Born- 26, march 1874
Death-29, January 1963

3. His poems
• Stopping by woods
• Fire and ice
• The gift outright

4. • Design
• Mending wall
• Home burial

5. • Nature
• Communication
• Everyday life
• Isolation of the individual
• Duty
• Love
• Extinction or death
Theme of Robert frost poetry

6. Theme of Nature
• Frost places a great deal of importance on nature
nature in all of his collections
• He focuses on the dramatic struggle that occur
within the natural world, such as a conflict of
changing of seasons and the destructive side of
nature.

7. Theme of communication
• Communication or the lake thereof, appears
as a significant them is several of frost’s
poem.
• Frost also makes it clear that communication
is extremely difficult to achieve.

8. Theme of Every day life
• Frost is very interested in the activities of everyday
life because it is this side of humanity that is the
most real to him.
• Even the most basic act in a normal day can have
numerous hidden meanings that need only to be
explored by poetic mind.

9. • This theme is closely related to the theme of
communication.
• The majority of the characters in frost’s
poems are isolated in one way or another.
Theme of Isolation of the individual

10. Theme of duty
 Duty is very important value in the rural
communities of new England, so it is not
surprising that frost employs it as one of the
primary themes of the poetry.

11. Theme of love
• Love is central to frost poems.
• If there is any force that can help man meet the
challenges of the universe , it is love.
• In several of frost’s poem the significance of love
between man and woman ,or friendly love is
brought out.
• It is when love breaks down or fades off that life
becomes unbearable especially for the woman in
frost's poetry.

12. Theme of extinction or death
• This is a also a major theme of frost’s poem.
• In many poem in he write “sleep” which is
associated with “death” “fire and ice” , “stopping by
woods on a snowy evening” and “old man’s and
winter night”
• All this poem is reference to death.

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