Robert Frost poem characteristics

1. Characteristics of the
poetry of Robert Frost
Prepared by
Dipti Gohil
(Teachers day)
Department of English

2. Introduction –
Robert Frost (1875- 1963)
• Robert Frost is one of the most honored
poets of America.
• He has been called by Robert Graves “the
voice of America”.
• He has received numerous prizes and
awards for his outstanding work as a poet.
• Even Jawaharlal Nehru inspiration with his
one of poem line – “And I have miles to
go”

3. His Famous which are in our syllabus
1) Stopping by woods
2) Fire and Ice
3) The Gift Outright
4) Design
5) Meanding wall
6) Home Burial

4. His poem central themes
• Themes are men and women,humanity,
loneliness,isolation and nature.
• He chose incidents and situations from common life as
subject of his poems.
• He fought against the existing traditions of poetry, he
wanted poetry to be as free and natural as love.
• His poetry becomes heart touchable because his
lyricism,his impulsive utterance,his simple poetic
diction,his clarity,his patriotism,his art,his symbolism,his
modernity and the importance he gave to man.

5. Characteristics of his poem –
1. Clarity and Simplicity
2. Universality and Depiction of Rural Life
3. Realism
4. Dramatic Quality
5. His Language, Diction and Versification
6. His Philosophy

6. Clarity and Simplicity
• The first thing that strikes a student of Frost’s
poetry is its clarity.
• His poem Clear and specific.
• Frost’s verse does not puzzle.
• His poems are Clarity of expression and freedom
from the charge of obscurity always has to pay.
• His poems, one often finds layers of meaning.
• For example- “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening”- poem line
The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.

7. Universality and Depiction of Rural
life
• He may begin with geography, but he has the ability
to take his poetry into an unmappable country.
• He has caught the spirit of all countrysides.
• Frost’s love of the New England countryside was
couples with his love of the simple rustic.
• His poem give real and living people image.
• His characters are real. People like the overwrought
mother in “Home Burial” who is well on the way to
becoming nervous because of the death of her
child.Universities present to in his poem-Fire and Ice

8. Realism –
• Use method of realism
• According to Frost there are two types of
realists. – One who offers a good deal of
dirt with his potato to show that is real
potato and there is the one who is
satisfied with the potato brushed clean.
• And he said Art does for life is to clean it,
to strip it to form. Like “Stopping by the
woods on a Snowy Evening.
• A realism born of ordinary things.
• Use properties – Every day life never

9. Dramatic Quality –
• Very important feature
• Poem like ‘Home Burial’, ‘Blue Berries’,
The which of Coos’
• In the ‘Home Burial’ we have man and
wife facing a crisis.
• Woman answering her husband ‘s query
–
Can’t man speak of his own child he’s lost?
Not you! Oh, where’s my hat? Oh!I don’t
need it!
I must get out of here. I must get air

10. His Language, Diction and Verification
• Use simple words and weaves into
verse the actual tones of common
speech.
• Word somehow made to add to the
mood I the poem.
• For example – Mending wall poem-
“My apple trees will never get across”
• Versifire large number of metres
• Not using crudeness and vulagarities
but vernacular without ribbing it of a
savour.

11. His Philosophy -
• Simplicity of Frost’s verse is
misleading.
• Depth of his philosophy
• He was always a patient and
persistent seeker after truth.
• Steady search for truth has not
made.
• He was grip or gloomy philosopher.
• Examples his poems are dealing
with philosophy – Meanding wall
poem

12. Conclusion –
In short the poet’s genuine underwent a
slow and gradual evolution. Frost found his
personal idiom, quite early in the career
and he did not change or modify it to any
considerable extent.

13. Reference :-
A History of American Literature

14. Thank you