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Essay / The Complex Meanings of Robert Frost's Poetry
Robert Frost is considered by many to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Frost's work is considered by many to be unique. Frost's poems are primarily set in nature, and it is through nature that he uses vocabulary that appeals to the senses to immerse the reader in the poem. In the poem “Hardwood Groves,” Frost uses a deciduous tree that loses its leaves as a symbol of the vicissitudes of life. “Frost recognizes that before things in life rise, they must fall” (Bloom 22). Frost's sentence structure is long and complicated. Many meanings of his poems are not revealed to the reader at first glance, but only after deep introspection of the poem. The real meanings in Frost's poems are usually life lessons. Frost uses the symbolism of nature and integrates this symbolism into everyday life situations. The speaker of the poems varies, in the poem "The Pasture" Frost appears to be directly involved in the poem, whereas as in the poem "While in the Rose Pogonias" he is a detached observer, looking at and speaking about the world. beauty. Subsequently, the author transfers this beauty to the beauty of experiences experienced in everyday life. The complex meanings of Robert Frost are stated in such a way that the reader must immerse themselves much deeper into the poem than when just reading the poem. . The poet has one major theme in all his poems and that theme is nature. Nature is something Frost could always relate to. In nature, Frost sees life, people and life situations. In the poem “After Apple Picking,” he uses the situation of a man picking an apple as another life lesson. Apple picking is a tedious job where you have to observe and pick the ripest apples......middle of paper......be. The characters Frost's poems are about paint clear pictures of what he expects from readers of his poems. Characters can be nature, animals or people used as symbols. The poems are always understandable, even if there is no clear plot in the poem. Robert Frost wrote poetry about nature and it was nature that he used as symbols for life lessons. Many critics were fascinated by how Frost could derive so much meaning of life from nature itself. Frost's poetry appeals to almost everyone because of its uncanny ability to relate to many things with which one is all too familiar and for many, that is life itself. "Perhaps that's what keeps Robert Frost so alive today, even for people who have never set foot in Vermont, writing about New England, Frost writes everywhere.” (294).