A Poet's World: Robert Frost

Young Frost

The experienced Frost Still one of the most popular 20th-century poets, Robert Frost's lyrics can be read as metaphors which convey a deep meditation on life and its surroundings. He used "old-fashioned" forms, but in fact he resignified his literary heritage and, using the New England speech he knew, he created a truly American poetic voice. In many of his poems we encounter Nature, isolated individuals, or people who discover either their loneliness is somehow accompanied by invisible presences of other human beings, or their solitude befriended by Nature itself. Activity to hand in in class next Wednesday, May 16th: After you read "The Road Not Taken", "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Ev

ening", and "The tuft of Flowers", write a brief summary in which you comment on Frost's main themes and style.