Robert Frost
From the later 1800's (1874) to the middle 1900's (1963), Robert Frost gave the world a window to view the world through poetry. From "A Boy's Will" to "Mountain Interval," he has explored many different aspects of writing. Giving us poems that define hope and happiness to poems of pure morbid characteristics; all of Robert Frost's poems explain the nature of living. But why does Frost take two totally different views in his poems? Is it because of his basic temperament or could it be that his attitude towards life changed in his later years? Throughout the life of Robert Frost, many different kinds of struggles where manifested in his life that hampered his every thought. Some say that Frost went from a "bright and sunny day" to "a dreary night." But even with all of the animosities that plagued his life, Robert Frost evolved to become one of America's greatest poets. Frost's poems were not respected in the United States at the time that he first began writing. But after a brief stay in England, Frost emerged as one of the most extraordinary writers in his time. Publishing A Boy's Will and North Of Boston, Frost began his quest. In the book A Boy's Will, Frost writes poems of hope and beauty. "Love and a Que
Frost continues the evolution of his emotions and his examination of man in work such as "Mending Wall" and "The Death of a Hired Man," both from North of Boston. As they walk along mending the wall, Frost and his neighbor discuss the philosophy of walls. His neighbor repeats, "Good fences make good neighbor," and seems satiation with his simple premise; however, Frost insists upon looking more deeply into the maker of the rationale for wall building. "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out." Frost feels that if he and his neighbor must spend time each spring repairing the wall, there must be "something there is that doesn't love a wall." In other words, if it were truly meant to be, it would stay put and not have to be reconstructed each year. Perhaps for Frost, the wall for sees a unnatural restraint upon nature. So much of the true Frost can be seen in his poem, "The Vantage Point" (A Boy's Will). In these verses, Frost reveals his basic interests - mankind and nature. What's more, he clearly exposes his strategy of immersing himself in nature until he begins to need social relations again; likewise, when he has his fill of mankind, he retreats back to the comfort and solitude of nature. "And if by noon I have too much of these (men), I have but to turn on my arm, and so, the sun-burned hillside sets my face aglow." Frost wants neither mankind nor nature to the exclusion of the other. Rather be prefers to spend time with each, satisfied that he will know when he's had his fill. stion," illustrates the optimistic view of a bridegroom trying to
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