Frost's virtues as a poet and artist are extraordinary. The poet/critic Randall Jarrell often praised Frost's poetry and wrote, "Robert Frost, along with Stevens and Eliot, seems to me the greatest of the American poets of this century. The paper ends with a conclusion that summarizes the final findings of the paper. Then the regional features of the poet's writings are explained they include, but are not limited to, the regional setting of New-England, the Puritan heritage, and the influences of American historical events on his attitude especially the indictment of the Native American-Indian. The paper opens with an introduction in which the definition of regionalism is discussed with reference to the literary implications of the term the discussion is supported by various literary examples from world literature in general and American literature in particular. Through his American voice, New-England setting, and tendency to extend his vision beyond the local, he expresses an attitude that let his natives see him as a national poet in spite of the regionality of his setting, style, and characters, while others could touch the humanitarian and universal tendencies in his poetry. Frost mainly wrote poems of rural settings and characters, this could mislead the casual reader to take him as a nature poet. This paper aims at exploring whether the American poet laureate Robert Lee Frost (1874 - 1963) was a regional poet, regionalism being the inclination to employ local colors and elements that focus on a certain locality which could be an indication of ethnic or local pride on one hand, or a criticism of certain regional features or situations on the other. Despite dark despotism we have something very refreshing too, that brings us to reality. We know the woods, we know the surroundings still there is an aura of uncertainty, that universal " fear of the unknown ", " gradually moving towards end ", and yet the paths are too familiarly clandestine. Which otherwise makes Frost – poetry a lovable touch of nature. ![]() By going through some of his famous poems this paper strives to bring out terror myth. While reading his poems we are stunned by magical influence of something lurking in and outside of the settings, giving an impression of predatorily being watched. Deep underlying tones, exhibit dark niches which lay hidden if read cursory. " Specifically, presence of death in Frost's poems strikes the reader with awe and fear. Readers, through mythological subject matter, are engrossed in his " ulterior meanings. The pastoral phenomenon leaves indelible impressions of elevated passions. There is stunning sublimity in all of his poems, rendering deeper insights into them. His characters reflect about moral and metaphysical quest in domestic as well as pastoral locales. Full of Keatsean " negative capability " Frost's characters augment the settings of uncertainty, dark mysteries and doubts. He very sublimely strikes terror in himself as well as in the readers. This piece of writing analyzes the fear element in Robert Frost poetry. At the end of the same stanza the speaker recalls his grief "as the hope-hour stroked its sum," and in the second stanza he refers to himself, wistfully, as "a time-torn man." Time and the woman are against him, no less than Nature and the woman in "Neutral Tones." The luxuriant self-pity of these lines, their dignified indignation at the woman’s lack of “pure lovingkindness,” anticipates the mature work of Yeats. "You did not come," the poem begins, "And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb…" Set in grammatical parallel, the inaction of "you" and the action of "Time" conspire to disappoint. In "A Broken Appointment," which finds Hardy’s speaker quarreling with a woman over an unrequited love, it’s Time in particular that allies with the Other. His poems tend to know where they stand, and argue with each other more than with themselves: that is the source of their limitations but also of their pugnacious greatness. ![]() Abstract That is, he rarely brings such markedly clashing attitudes into close conjunction.
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