Robert Frost
ROBERT FROST: "CAN IRONY IN POEMS MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR READERS TO UNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE"In Robert frost poems, he operates on so many levels that to interpret his poems can cause the reader to misunderstand them completely. He focuses his works on his experiences of life which includes irony and imagery themes in which he gives contradictions of life and human nature. Robert Frost is a well-known American poet who wrote about his own beliefs of life in his poetry. The poems that I have chosen are "The Road Not Taken," "Mending Wall" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." "Most of his poetry is concerned how people interact with their environment, and though he saw the beauty of nature, and also saw its potential danger ("Frost, Robert")." "Although Frost concentrates on ordinary subject matter, he evokes a wide variety of emotions, and his works often shift dramatically to humorous tones to tragic ones ("Frost, Robert")." Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California. When Frost was 11 years old his father died of tuberculosis. The Frost family moved to live with some relatives in Massachusetts, where his father wanted to buried. Frost attended school in Lawrence, Massachusetts and he began to write poet
The "Mending Wall" was published in Frost's North of Boston along with other poems. The "Mending Wall" was written in blank verse; it does not rhyme. The "Mending Wall" has 45 lines and approximately 9 syllables per line. The setting is in England around the early 1900's, a story about a wall made of stone. Both of the men worked together at fixing the wall but they had different personalities. One is a speaker and the other is imaginative who lacks on speaking to his friend. "The poem's opening line- "Something there is that doesn't love a wall"- implies that walls are unnatural, and that the vague "Something" is a force of nature that destroys the walls people build (Mending Wall, 233)." In the metaphor "My apple trees will never get across," "And eat the cones under his pines." The metaphor implies that the neighbors do not want the other to get his fruit because it can cause problems. The other man answers "Good fences make god neighbors" implying the separation of the farms is good so they will remain good neighbors. Bruce Meyer interprets the "Mending Wall" is not a well-told story but it gives statements on the nature of human relations, boundaries, and human identity. The story entails nature to try to destroy the wall but the men came together to repair it. The men admitted in the story that nature wanted the wall down but the neighbors did not want anyone to cross territory and take his fruit. Frost gives understatements to express the truth but in a very small way (Meyer, Bruce). "The Road Not Taken" was published in 1916. The poem has rhymed stanzas and the first five lines are in the form of abaab. "The Road Not Taken" is a rhymed poem and has 20 lines. The setting of the poem is in the woods. The poem relies on a metaphor in which the journey on a road is compared to a journey on a road. The speaker has to choose one path instead of the other but he does not know which one to pick. He eventually makes a choice, hoping that he will be able to visit the place again. In the last stanza "less traveled by" indicates more
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Approximate Word count = 1393
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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