SOURCE: "Frost's 'The Fear': Unfinished Sentences, Unanswered Questions," in College Literature, Vol. XV, No. 3, 1988, pp. 199-207.
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 numerous unfinished sentences, and its undefined relationships among central characters in the poem.
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