Poetic Style of Robert Frost

Robert Lee icing, New Englands cherished poets, has been called Americas purest classical lyricist and one of the outstanding poets of the twentieth century. He was a modernist poet. During his childhood he thrived in English and Latin classes and discovered a common thread in Theocritus and Virgils rhyme, and in the romantic balladry. rhymes way of life was influenced by the wee romantic poets as we erect see the romantic features in his poesys and in any case by the contemporary British poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and Robert Graves.Many of his poems had to do with nature and transcendentalism. Of all his poetic elements, icing the pucks style seems the hardest to ensn be d avouch. Actually one cannot pin it down, plainly most intimacy could be said to notwithstanding our un-enlightenment, says Lawrence Thompson. He then moves on to state what Frost said nearly style in a letter to his friend Louis Untermeyer dated sue 10, 1924, style in prose or verse is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is adage. His style is the way he carries himself toward his ideas and deeds.Randall Jarrell a poet/critic praised Frosts style as, No other living poet has pen so easy about the actions of ordinary man. The essential element of Frosts style is his plectron of language or diction. He uses perfunctory (simple) words you would use in conversation. Frost writes his sentences with meter and rhythm to increase their beauty. His style also comprises of various elements such(prenominal) as lyric and account, with characters, background and imagery drawn from New England, choice of outlandish (pastoral) subjects and realistic depiction of ordinary life and people.He also uses some(prenominal) poetic devices adding to the craftsmanship of the poem. Language used in his poems is simple and rustic. Frost is universally recognized for being a pastoral poet who deals with the subject of everyday life of the humble dwellers i n the countryside with their works and loved ones, with their joys and sorrows, and the background stage setting is nature. Many of his most famous poems (such as Mending Wall and halt by Woods on a Snowy Evening) are inspired by the natural world, particularly his time pass as a poultry elevateer in New Hampshire.Ironically, until his adulthood in New England, Frost was primarily a urban center boy who spent nearly all of his time in an urban environment. It is possibly because of his slow introduction to the rural side of New England that Frost became so intrigued by the pastoral world. Frost states that Poetry is much often of the country than the cityPoetry is very, very rural rustic. It might be taken as a symbol of man, taking its rise from individuality and seclusion written first for the person that writes and then going out into its social challenge and use.Yet Frost does not express pastoral only in terms of beauty, as in a traditional sense. Instead, he also emp hasizes the harsh scraps of the natural world the clash between urban and rural lifestyles as seen in his poem Mending Wall. Frosts poetry is simple and clear. Richard Wilbur points out it is not written in the informal language of an uneducated farawaym boy, but rather in a beautifully refined and charged conversational language. Poems are said to be lyric, narrative or salient and Frost wrote in all these triad forms.Lyric poetrys are usually short expressing personal thoughts and feelings, and it is spoken by exclusive speaker about his own feelings for an object or a person. For case Mowing is a lyrical sonnet where Frost talks about the speakers own opinion or rather ideas about the toilsome a cut down makes mowing hay in a field by a forest, and what this sound might signify. Narrative poetry tells us a story of a single event. For example Out, Out is a narrative in blank verse written in a continuous structure where Frost talks about the death of a boy in a farm (a ccident).Dramatic poems kick in speaking characters as in a little play. Frosts dramatic poems fall under four categories- ballads, linear narratives, dramatic monologues, and dramatic narratives. 1 of Frosts famous poems The Death of a Hired Man is an example for dramatic narrative which is written in blank verse. Frost has written many poems with speakers active in conversation desire A Hundred Collars and The Death Of A Hired Man, he has always been interested in distinguishing New England speakers who are highly characterized in his poems because he was born in San Francisco and spent his early years there..I could enumerate more derivations in Frosts conversational style, but the point is that this style doesnt try to imitate the inconsequentialities of spoken converse (Charney, Maurice. 1). Charney also stated Frost is not at all kindred David Mamet or Harold Pinter, although these two dramatists are probably just as far from the realities of everyday conversation as Fro st. His use of ordinary conversational style is tremendous. Symbolic and metaphorical devices are one of the elements of Frosts poetic style.Frost said, Every poem I write is figurative in two senses. It will have figures in it, of course but its also a figure in itself a figure for something, and its made so that you can get more than one figure out of it. (Cook Voices p235). The use of metaphorical devices in Frosts poetry is more obvious. Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two things which are not alike. In most of his poems we can see the use of metaphors he is notably a poet of metaphors more than anything else.For example In the poem Putting in the seed the plant of seed in the garden, in spring time is like (compared to) devising love, in another poem of Frost called Devotion. the passive but ever-changing shore and the persistent energetic ocean are compared to a devoted couple. .Frost said, Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty me taphors, grace metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest sentiment that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, Why dont you say what you mean?We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections whether from diffidence or from some other instinct. Excerpt from an essay entitled Education by Poetry by Robert Frost. Symbolic representation may be an object, person, circumstance or action which stands for something else more abstract. For example In the poem stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening even though there is no one overt symbol in the poem, the unblemished journey can represent lifes journey. Dark woods also snuff it a powerful recurring symbol in Frost.There are veritable signature images that become symbols when we look at Frosts work namely, trees, birds and birdsongs, solitary travelers, etcetera Inspired by the romantic poets, Frosts works influence romantic features as in the use of imagery. Poetry indirectly appeals to our senses through imagery. Frosts use of the sound of sense is most successful because of the clarity and colloquial nature of his poetry. It is only because of this clarity that Frost is able to explore topics of emotion, struggle, and conflict that would be incomprehensible in any other form.