Sunday, November 10, 2013

Frost Relationships

Form: Robert Frost tends to use a certain rhyme scheme throughout his various poems, but each poem are all differently arranged. Frost likes to be highly structured, and out of the poems we've he only wrote one poem without using a rhyme scheme (Storm Fear). This poem does have rhyming at the end of lines, but they are very irregular. He also likes to use a regular meter and dosen't like to stray from this. Thsi varitey in rhyme usually depends on the theme of the poem. Frost always relates his poems structures to the main themes of his poems.

Content:  Frost seems to use a lot of nature in his poetry and see sees nature as a metaphor for growing up, passing of time, or new stages of life. Nature is usually portayed using a pathetic fallacy, which is personification specifically for nature. Based on the poems that we've read Frost writes in the first person, creating a feel of actually being apart of the poem. "To the Thawing Wind" is a great example of a very differnet poem, becuase Frost uses apostrophe, which is a poetric device that we've haven't seen a lot in some of his other poems. 

From/Content Comparison: Since Frost likes to use nature throughout his poems, this idea is usally portrayed in his structural writing. If he wrote a poem based aroud the theme of stormy weather ("To the Thawing Wind" "Storm Fear") He would use a very scattered rhyming scheme to portray that sense of stormy weather. If an animal was being used as the main theme he would use various different meters to show different elements of that animal. In "The Oven Bird" he uses different meters to represent the unregural bird calls. This use of form and content relationship really brings the reader into the story. 

1 comment:

  1. I agree, particularly with the fact that Frost uses nature as a metaphor for growing up, passing of time, and new stages of life. I never really thought of it that way. He also uses a lot of pathetic fallacy, and we were talking about the different ways in which he uses it in the different poems (description and action).

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