Unity and Isolation in Robert Frost Poems
Mid-Term Paper
Unity and Isolation in Robert Frost’s Poems
Arif Furqan
13/355886/PSA/07634
A MID TERM PAPER
SUBMITTED TO ROMANTICISM CLASS
FACULTY OF CULTURAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA
YOGYAKARTA
INTRODUCTION
It will always be interesting to discuss about Robert Frost’s poems. This famous American poet known for his rural setting poem might be one of the most noticeable poets in the world, writing with the spirit of Romanticism. He is a quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken, using a very common diction, but rich in the psychological complexity and the layers of ambiguity and irony. Most of his works takes setting in the ‘closer to nature’ place, the rural rather than the urban. With the spirit of romanticism, Frost tries to escape, avoid, outstand, or even survive from the urban society which at that time deals with the capitalistic and political greed. The Romantics tends to avoid the urban area, which distract human from the deep emotion, truth, and sense1. `Several poems are somehow telling about the narrator’s self-psychological thought, one about isolation like in the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and The Road not Taken, while the other is about the unity like in Mending Wall and Time to Talk. Even though the theme of unity and isolation can be said as two contradictive aspects, yet those two themes speaks the same spirit, romanticism.
Lacan writes that "the unconscious is the discourse of the Other". Even our unconscious desires are, in other words, organized by the linguistic system that Lacan mentions the symbolic order as "the big Other2”. In a sense, then, our desire is never properly our own, but is created through fantasies that are caught up in cultural ideologies. Lacan emphasizes that there is no subject except from the reflection. ‘The self’ cannot be defined/identified in complete and detach the identity of ‘self’ from the reflection of Others. As Jean Paul
Unity and Isolation in Robert Frost’s Poems
Arif Furqan
13/355886/PSA/07634
A MID TERM PAPER
SUBMITTED TO ROMANTICISM CLASS
FACULTY OF CULTURAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA
YOGYAKARTA
INTRODUCTION
It will always be interesting to discuss about Robert Frost’s poems. This famous American poet known for his rural setting poem might be one of the most noticeable poets in the world, writing with the spirit of Romanticism. He is a quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken, using a very common diction, but rich in the psychological complexity and the layers of ambiguity and irony. Most of his works takes setting in the ‘closer to nature’ place, the rural rather than the urban. With the spirit of romanticism, Frost tries to escape, avoid, outstand, or even survive from the urban society which at that time deals with the capitalistic and political greed. The Romantics tends to avoid the urban area, which distract human from the deep emotion, truth, and sense1. `Several poems are somehow telling about the narrator’s self-psychological thought, one about isolation like in the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and The Road not Taken, while the other is about the unity like in Mending Wall and Time to Talk. Even though the theme of unity and isolation can be said as two contradictive aspects, yet those two themes speaks the same spirit, romanticism.
Lacan writes that "the unconscious is the discourse of the Other". Even our unconscious desires are, in other words, organized by the linguistic system that Lacan mentions the symbolic order as "the big Other2”. In a sense, then, our desire is never properly our own, but is created through fantasies that are caught up in cultural ideologies. Lacan emphasizes that there is no subject except from the reflection. ‘The self’ cannot be defined/identified in complete and detach the identity of ‘self’ from the reflection of Others. As Jean Paul