Peotry
Frost's poetry is simplistic yet complex. Discuss with reference of two poems you have studied.Poetry is a careful treatment of language and made to sound effective and often rhyming with its complication and sophisticated language, structure and format. Thus, in accordance to its richness in language literacy features, it is mainly made simple but often contain further meaning behind its simplicity, which appears to be rather complex. The respective of the poem is merely difficult to interpret because despite the common sense that people have, people might perceive the poem in various way thus produce different understanding. However, the style, imagery, structure, alliteration and some of other poetic techniques show a poet's individual persona. Robert Frost is a very interesting poet whom associates his poems with nature and to base relevance to nature as well. His language happens to be natural, simple and effortless compare to the poetry occurring during his time. The predominant medium of his poem, as it already mentioned earlier, is nature. Nature may indicate simplistic point of view of the world, however, Robert Frost often not talking about nature, but associate nature within his poem to emphasise
'The Line-Gang' is relevant to this case since it has the occurrence of simplex and complex. 'The Line-Gang' is involving nature and tis vulnerability because of human harmful effect. If we recall the fact that Robert Frost always bases his poems in nature in general, and this poem is one the example can be raised for the issue. The appearance of very effective blended metaphor in this poem really makes this poem difficult to interpret between normal life and the meaning of the poem. 'The Line-Gang' has an interesting start indeed, where the first words 'Here come' draws the readers' attention by giving a powerful sense of presence of the main figure in the poem. However, the description of this main figure is emphasised by the words 'pioneering by' which indicates the sense of settlement. Two of his most famous poems 'The Line-Gang' and 'The Mending Wall' are very suitable to this case since they both contain several quantities of similarities. Furthermore, these two poems are simplex and yet they are complex. Frost then uses some interesting symbolism in his poem hereafter. The symbolism occurring where the poet announce himself as an 'apple orchard' and his neighbour as a 'pine'. This is suggesting us an idea of incapability of both sides to harm each other thus the poet questioning the need of the wall. However, his questions are only answered with one simple thought, more likely to be an old notion where the truth of it is still questioned, his neighbour answered him 'Good fences make good neighbours'. Still, Frost is not satisfied with this answer, or suspensively ignores the notion from the beginning, hence he is still questioning about the notion and the wall's existence. There are two lines stating strongly about his questions 'What I was walling in or walling out' and 'and to whom I was like to give offence'. Robert Frost constructs the idea that perfect wall has never been possible to be made. This is shown effectively in the fourth line where he mentions 'gaps even two can pass abreast'. The sentence give us a few ideas that 'wall' cannot be built perfectly in the term of tough and never can
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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