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    published in 1923. This volume was a prize winning‚ first time Robert Frost got the Pulitzer Prize. This volume comprises of famous poems such as "The Road not taken" ‚"The Stopping by woods on Snowy Evening" and "ice and fire". "New Hampshire" shows peculiar features of Robert Frost as self-consciousness‚ talking about himself and aphorisms. The topic of the poems in this collection indicates depth and subtleness. This work portay his maturity. Frost controls his feelings even when he is personal. He does

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    Realistic Humanism‚ an Analysis of the Work of Robert Frost The popular poetry of Robert Frost has been described by many as Transcendental‚ Romantic‚ Realistic‚ or even Modern. There are many opinions on the poetry of Frost‚ in part‚ because he was such a prolific writer; he published poems of many different genres. Most‚ though not all‚ of Frost’s works were narratives‚ although those can be further divided into four more categories: ballads‚ linear narratives‚ dramatic monologues and dramatic

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    Robert Frost: A Brilliant Poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco‚ California in 1874. He studied at Harvard‚ but left without receiving a degree. Many experiences have influenced his writing. For example‚ he bought a farm in New Hampshire for his wife and four children‚ which later earned him two famous books. Frost was a brilliant poet fueled by desire and tragedy‚ caused by the death of his wife and children. In fact‚ both the tragedy and living in a farm shaped one of his poems

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    Sometimes a life can be changed by the simplest of decisions. Robert Frost has written three poems all revolving around choices. These poems are “The Road Not Taken‚” “Mending Wall‚” and “After Apple-Picking.” In each poem‚ the speaker questions a particular aspect of his life. However‚ each decision‚ no matter how big or small‚ creates a puzzling problem in the speaker’s life. This essay will argue that Robert Frost’s poems‚ “The Road Not Taken‚” “Mending Wall‚” and “After Apple-Picking” symbolically

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    Robert Frost effectively utilizes literary techniques involving metaphors‚ personification and imagery to describe internal struggles prevalent throughout life. Although‚ “Desert Places” and “The Road Not Taken” differ in the messages they bring to the reader’s attention and general themes‚ they both describe internal struggle dealt with by the narrator and use the setting as a metaphor. Desert Places‚ is based on the theme of loneliness and isolation. The narrator does not appear to believe that

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    The Dark side of Robert Frost Robert Frost is often referred to as a poet of nature. Words and phrases such as fire and ice‚ flowers in bloom‚ apple orchards and rolling hills‚ are all important elements of Frost ’s work. Remove them and something more than symbols are taken away. These ‘benign ’ objects provide an alternative way to look at the world and are often used as metaphors to describe a darker view of nature and humans. In Frost ’s poetry‚ the depth is as important as the surface. The

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    where we have to make some decisions‚ some more than others‚ and Robert Frost alludes to this in a relatable way in his poem “The Road Not Taken”. Frost uses some great images to describe the situation the narrator is in. He also lets you visualize the thoughts and actions that the narrator is making. There are so many ways you can tell what Frost is saying in this poem by taking a close look into his many uses of symbolism. Frosts first use of symbolism in his poem is in the first two lines “Two

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    Poetry Explication of “The Road Not Taken” In “The Road Not Taken‚” by Robert Frost‚ he depicts a person that comes to a decision that they had made in their past. They have a couple of choices‚ hence the two roads that were depicted in the poem. But the speaker is going deeper; he is facing two choices both having pros and cons in the decision and in the end the speakers decision affects them for the rest of their life. The speaker in the first line states that he is facing two roads‚ two

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    1 Robert Frost: Modern day poet In spite of the Pastoral element that was predominant in all of Robert Frost’s poems‚ he was still considered a modern poet because the poetry that he wrote was well endowed with the many problems that men who lived in the modern world faced with Science and Technology. He was a contemporary and great friend to such modernist greats as Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens. Although he resembled these modernist poets‚ Frost was quite different from the rest of the

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    In Robert Frost’s poem‚ A Time to Talk‚ the theme is that friends should come before work. The man is doing his labor and sees his buddy on the road. He’s about to keep working but realizes that his work won’t get any harder so he goes and visits his comrade. In three lines of the poem‚ Robert Frost expresses his opinion that friends come before work. "I don’t stand still and look around on all the hills I haven’t hoed." This example is the third and fourth sentence of A Time to Talk. In this

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