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Choices of Society and Confinement or Individuality and Freedom in Robert Frost's 'The Vantage Point'
"Choices of Society and Confinement or Individuality and Freedom in Robert Frost's 'The Vantage Point'" explores the theme of choices in Frost's poem.
frost • robert • american • 20th century • vantage point

Frost: One of the Greats
The changing of the season is always a good time to dip into some nature poetry, and who is better than Robert Frost at satisfying our appetite for nature poetry?
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Remembering Robert Frost
Part One of a Two-Part Article on Robert Frost and His Work
robert frost • frost • poetry • american literature • audrey mccrone

Remembering Robert Frost
Part Two of an article on Robert Frost and his work.
robert frost • frost • poetry • essay • audrey mccrone

Robert Frost's Golden Moments
One of Frost's most analyzed poems, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" dramatizes the very human desire to hold on to what it has deemed "golden."
robert frost • nothing gold can stay • losing spring • gold • short poem

Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods
How many of us have occasionally wanted to get away from it all for a while? Put our responsibilities to one side and just think about ourselves?
robert frost • stopping by woods on a snowy evening • poems about life and death • freedom versus responsibility • poems about nature

Robert Frost's The Fear
Robert Frost's "The Fear" is a dramatic poem featuring a narrator and four characters-a husband, the only named character, a wife, a man and his son who does not speak.
robert frost • the fear • vanity • dramatic poem • husband

Robert Frost's Tricky Poem
Frost said his poem "The Road Not Taken" was tricky-very tricky. Three things make his poem tricky-the time frame, and the words "sigh" and "difference."
robert frost • the road not taken • tricky poem • analysis of road not taken • edward thomas

Robert Frost: A Study of Seasons
This essay looks at a selection of Frost's seasonal poems, offering ways of thinking about them, including possible topics for writing about Frost's poems.
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Robert Frost’s "Out, Out – "
This is one of Robert Frost's more shocking poems, dealing with the violent maiming and death of a young boy as he chops wood on the family farm.
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Robert Frost’s ‘Bereft’
Robert Frost's amazing "Bereft" contains one the most fascinating metaphors of all time: "Leaves got up in a coil and hissed / Blindly struck at my knee and missed."
robert frost’s ‘bereft’ • hissing leaves • snake metaphor • odd rime scheme • summer was past and day was past

Robert Frost’s Birches
Birches is one of Robert Frost's best-loved poems. It shares a theme of childhood with "Out, Out-", although the two poems present this central idea in very different way
robert frost birches • childhood in poetry • frost ice-storm • birch trees • reminiscences and nostalgia

Robert Frost’s Mending Wall
Do you like to keep yourself separate from others, needing your own space? Or do you feel we put too much distance between one another? Frost explores both views.
robert frost • mending wall • american dream • good fences make good neighbors • poems about nature

Robert Frost’s Putting in the Seed
Students of Robert Frost's poetry will be familiar with the poet expressing a love of nature and its beauty. The love in this poem is of a more physical kind...
robert frost • putting in the seed • sonnet form • poems about love • poems about sex

The Versanelle
Often employing the usual poetic devices, the versanelle is a crafty little form whose elements include brevity, narration, critique of human nature, and a punch line.
versanelle • epigram • metaphor • narration • robert frost

Tricked by Robert Frost
This article launches a "Tricked by" series, which will report and comment on passages from writers who have been tricked by Frost and other poets.
tricked by robert frost • the road not taken • birches • tricky poem • reading into a poem

Understanding Frost's Imagery and Naturalism
Frost's poems have a great deal of imagery weaved throughout them and his naturalistic style of writing gives his poems an earthy feel to them.
poetry • robert frost • american literature • "stopping by woods on a snowy evening" • poem

Vermont
In his poetry, Robert Frost wrote about Vermont's nature and rugged terrain. Today hikers can experience the poetry by hiking the same trails once traveled by Frost.
robert frost • hiking • green mountains • vermont • poetry

Viewing Robert Frost (Part One)
A critical essay on poet Robert Frost, Part One of Two. See Part Two also!
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Viewing Robert Frost: Part One
A critical essay on poet Robert Frost, Part One of Two. See Part Two next week!
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Frost’s ‘The Witch of Coös’
Full of Halloween imagery, Frost's "The Witch of Coös" appeared in his collection titled New Hampshire, his first effort to win the Pulitzer Prize.
robert frost • the witch of coösbones in the attic • drama • two old believers • halloween

Farmer/Poet Frost
The speaker in Robert Frost's sonnet, "Putting in the Seed," dramatizes his deep love for the simple act of planting seeds in the earth's rich soil.
farmer/poet • analysis of robert frost's ‘putting in the seed’ • elizabethan sonnet • rime scheme • ababcdcdefefgg

Dickinson’s Winter Welcome
The speaker in Emily Dickinson's short winter poem slyly humbles the cold season but not before distinguishing its multitude of genuine positive attributes.
dickinson’s winter welcome • winter is good — his hoar delights • robert frost’s tricky speakers • slant rime • summer

Frost's Snow and Woods
Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" seems simple, but its nuanced phrase, "And miles to go before I sleep," offers much about which to speculate.
robert frost • stopping by woods on a snowy evening • darkest evening of the year • horse • snow

Frost's Two Tramps in Mud Time
The speaker in "Two Tramps in Mud Time" dramatizes his encounter with two unemployed lumberjacks who covet the speaker's wood-splitting task.
robert frost • two tramps in mud time • uniting love and work • lumberjacks • wood-splitting

Frost: After Apple-Picking
A beautiful poem in which we see the effect of too many apples on the exhausted speaker as he drifts in and out of sleep.
robert frost after apple-picking • poems about nature • poems about work • sleep and dreams • frost's view of nature

Frost’s 'Mending Wall'
The speaker in Frost's "Mending Wall" is a provocateur, questioning the wall's purpose, chiding his neighbor about it, yet he is the one more concerned about its repair.
robert frost • mending wall • something there is that doesn't love a wall • good fences make good neighbors • spring

Frost’s ‘The Oven Bird’
Frost's speaker in "The Oven Bird" explores the same mystery that presents itself in the little eight-line poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
frost’s the oven bird • decay in the lush midst • mending wall • snow and woods • tricky poem

Frost’s Nothing Gold Can Stay
Most of us have our own favourite season, whether it be the golden leaves of autumn or the balmy evenings of summer. For Frost, the peak of the year seems to be spring.
robert frost • nothing gold can stay • changing seasons • poems about spring • garden of eden

Imagery in Frost's Dust of Snow
Robert Frost's Dust of Snow is only eight lines long and contains no adjectives, similes or metaphors, yet succeeds in creating a picture in the reader's mind: how?
robert frost • dust of snow • poem about snow • imagery in poetry • similes and metaphors in poetry

Literary Soldiers of American War Literature
The article shares information about the stories and poems of American authors who utilized war themes in their writings.
american war literature • bob dylan • robert frost • joseph heller • edna st. vincent millay

When Things Become Set in Stone
When old symbols lose their meaning, should we keep hanging on to them or be open for a new experience?
crucifixion of christ • dying and rising god • alchemy • individuation • jung

Frost's 'War Thoughts at Home'
Robert Frost's recently discovered "poem" is a collection of seven stanzas, which appears to be more a list of notes rather than a poem, as the title clearly reveals.
frost’s ‘war thoughts at home’ • poetic notes • north of boston • france • 1918

Donald Hall on Ambition
Compiled from two of his lectures, this essay appeared in Donald Hall's collection Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-88.
donald hall • poet laureate • criticism • m.f.a • horace

Author Snapshot Bio: Angelou
A brief snapshot biography of the life and work of African-American author Maya Angelou.
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Before or After Quotation Marks
This article details which punctuation marks go before the quotation marks and which ones go after.
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Favorite Poems: In the White Sky
Missed opportunities dot most lives. Few poems put memories of them in such life-affirming perspective as well as Stafford's "In the White Sky."
william stafford • in the white sky • robert bly • robert frost • james wright

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