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Frost, Robert (1874-1963)
The image of Robert Frost nurtured by most Americans is of a white-haired, rustic saint writing poems about the mellow glories of nature and the pastoral idylls of New Englan...
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Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet and educator. Her poetry earned her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945.Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcaya on April 6, 1889, at Vicu&ntild...
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Gabriela Mistral, literary pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was the first Spanish American author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature; as such, she will always be seen as a representative figu...
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Biography EssayWhen Robert Frost died on 29 January 1963, the public mourned the loss of what it thought was the grandfatherly old bard of the nation, the most beloved poet of the century, the gentle ...
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Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) was an intentionally American and traditionalist poet in an age of internationalized and experimental art. He used New England idioms, characters, and settings, recalling ...
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Robert Frost is considered one of the foremost American poets of the twentieth century. Through his imagery of nature and life in rural New England, Frost explored fundamental questions about man's ex...
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When Robert Frost died on 29 January 1963, the public mourned the loss of what it thought was the grandfatherly old bard of the nation, the most beloved poet of the century, the gentle writer of simpl...
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In the following essay, Bass discusses the presentation of fear in the poetry of Robert Frost, centering on fears associated with individual experience, including fear of nature, and fears that threat...
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In the following essay, Perrine explicates Robert Frost's "The Fear," drawing attention to its "syntax of mystery"—its mood of tension and anxiety, its numero...
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Critical Essay by Yvor Winters
Frost has been praised as a classical poet, but he is not classical in any sense which I can understand. Like many of his contemporaries, he is an Emersonian Romantic, a...
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Critical Essay by Marion Montgomery
The casual reader of Frost's poetry is likely to think of Frost as a nature poet in the tradition of Wordsworth. In a sense, nature is his subject, but to Fr...
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Critical Essay by Hayden Carruth
What one finds upon reading [Frost's] Collected Poems is a relatively small number of first-rate pieces and a much larger number of unsuccessful ones. I don�...
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Critical Essay by George Monteiro
Despite Frost's expressions of interest in Emily Dickinson, his critics have said nothing about the ways in which his reactions to Dickinson's poetry mi...
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Critical Essay by Amy Lowell
Mr. Frost is only expatriated in a physical sense. Living in England he is, nevertheless, saturated with New England. For not only is his work New England in subject, it i...
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Critical Essay by Mark Van Doren
At its worst [Mr. Frost's indirectness] is a mannerism, a tour de force of syntax; it puzzles with mere obscurity. At its best it is poetry of the subtlest sort...
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Critical Essay by Louis Untermeyer
No contemporary poet has been more praised than Robert Frost, and no poet has ever been more praised for the wrong things. The early reviews of "West-Running ...
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Critical Essay by John Ciardi
Frost could not have known what a stunning effect his repetition of the last line [in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"] was going to produce. He could...
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Critical Essay by Lawrence Thompson
[Even] though Frost is extremely gifted in his ability to make even the least lyric poem dramatic, he is primarily a subjective lyric poet, at his best in his appar...
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Critical Essay by Richard Eberhart
[The] personality of Robert Frost, the impact of his living presence, was known as inextricably bound up with his poetry. His mastery was also in what he would not d...
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Critical Essay by Randolph Perazzini
Robert Frost was a man of many voices, the most elusive of which may be the lyric "I" of the New England poet-farmer. Believing that "the coll...
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Critical Essay by Robert B. Thompson
Coming in his final collection, In the Clearing, "Accidentally on Purpose" is a philosophical dispensation for the aged Frost. As such, it describes ...
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Critical Essay by Laurence Goldstein
Frost considered "Kitty Hawk" the most important of his later poems, and on speaking engagements around the country often cited this passage as a cul...
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Critical Essay by Ezra Pound
[A Boy's Will] is a little raw, and has in it a number of infelicities; underneath them it has the tang of the New Hampshire woods, and it has just this utter since...
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Critical Essay by Louis Untermeyer
[There is] a lack of "poetic" figures and phrases in [North of Boston]: a lack of regard for the outlines and fragility of the medium, a lack of finess...
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Critical Essay by Mark Van Doren
Certain pages of ["West-Running Brook"] remain for me, after several attempts to find more in them than meets the eye, trivial; and certain others are me...
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Critical Essay by Harold H. Watts
The bulk of [Frost's] poetry is a dialogue in which the two speakers are Robert Frost himself and the entity which we call nature or process. It is a dialogue ...
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Critical Essay by Jeffrey Hart
Different as [Frost and Eliot] are in many ways, and though Frost conducted a kind of private war with Eliot, it is possible to discern interesting resemblances beneath ...
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Critical Essay by John C. Kemp
While references to the "farmer poet," the "Yankee bard," and the "poet of New England" are now commonplace [in describing Fros...
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Critical Essay by Isadore Traschen
Robert Frost wrote some of the finest verse of our time. He created his own extraordinarily flat, "unpoetic" variant of the conversational idiom which ...
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Critical Essay by Elaine Barry
Frost was not a systematic thinker. He was against systems on principle…. Part of his suspiciousness toward "structure" lay in the fact that "...
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Critical Essay by Donald J. Greiner
[What Frost did] to American poetry was to insist that a poem must have definite form, be dramatic, and use voice tones to vary the "te tum" effect of...
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Critical Essay by W. J. Keith
[Let us consider Frost's] relation to his material…. [There are] some poems in which no narrator is specified, and others in which the centre of attention h...
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Critical Essay by Harriet Monroe
Perhaps no poet in our history has put the best of the Yankee spirit into a book so completely, so happily, as Robert Frost. [Ralph Waldo] Emerson, greatest of the ear...
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Critical Essay by Richard Church
I am tempted to look upon [Robert Frost] as a major poet. A major poet is one who brings into a language and its poetry a new element of thought and experience, and a ...
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Critical Essay by Peter Viereck
Robert Frost's name is rarely heard among the exquisites of avant-garde. His poems are like those plants that flourish in the earth of the broad plains and valle...
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Critical Essay by Robert Penn Warren
A large body of criticism has been written on the poetry of Robert Frost, and we know the labels which have been used: nature poet, New England Yankee, symbolist, ...
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Critical Essay by John T. Ogilvie
Together with "Birches," "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," "After Apple-Picking," and a dozen or so other ...
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Critical Essay by James M. Cox
Frost has established himself securely in the position which Mark Twain created in the closing years of the last century—the position of American literary man as ...
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Critical Essay by Roy Harvey Pearce
Frost allies himself with Emerson, not Whitman, thereby demonstrating that he has resisted the temptation (so fatal because so self assuring) to take a way of poetr...
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Critical Essay by Robert Graves
Frost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned a master-poet by world standards. [Edgar Allan] Poe, Long-fellow, Whittier, and many more of his American pr...
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Whether he wrote about woods, milkweed, apple-picking, fire and ice, or rolling hills Robert Frost stands out among poets with his descriptive use of nature with its beauty and splendor. These images ...
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The concept of suicide has been very controversial in literature since the art of writing has been around. Many poets use everyday happenings to convey the despair and grief in their lives. One poet t...
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There are many aspects of Robert Frost's poems, many of which are famous, but there are only a few that I believe stand out from the rest. Frost is constantly referring to nature ...
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A journey implies encountering different forms of obstacles which hinder continuity. A physical journey allows people who challenge themselves, the reward to developing physically, intellectually and ...
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Robert Frost is one of the most renowned poets of this century. He was "born March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. An intentionally traditionalist poet in an age of internationalized and exper...
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Many authors and poets express certain symbolic meanings behind their works. Such is the case with the works of Robert Frost. In the many poems of Frost, there are dark and pessimistic aspects that a...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
The poetry of Robert Frost has been very influential in American culture, so much that he has been called America's Poet. In his poems, he focuses on nature, love, and "t...
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Robert Frost, arguably the greatest American poet in history, used imagery of nature and life in New England to explore fundamental questions about human existence. Using simple yet captivating langu...
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The poem A Time to Talk is about a man who is hoeing in the hills. He then sees a friend riding on a horse and knowing work shouldn't get anymore difficult than it is, he stops to have a friendly vis...
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A Time to Talk
Save work for later when there is time to play is the most important theme of the poem A Time to Talk. In this poem by Robert Frost the man faced this decision once in...
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A Time to Talk
Brett Boehmke
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...
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A quest is a journey, an adventure, seeking or looking for something that you feel there is a need to find. Robert Frost's "Directive" and T.S. Eliot`s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" are poems ...
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Frost, Robert (1874-1963)
Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
Robert Frost
Eben Bass
The Nature of Frost
