Frost's Development

Frost's Development 

     Frosts ability to switch from a very traditional kind of poem such as those in his earlier books of poetry to a more story like and untraditional poetry in North of Boston shows exactly how versatile frost is not only in content but in form as well. An example of a poem that has a classical structure and poetic flow is gross first poem published in his first collection A Boy's Will. The poem, Into my Own, is a Shakespearean Sonnet with many examples of couplets and quatrains. The content of this poem shows the stray development of a character heading toward the woods which we said was a symbol of the uncertainty of the afterlife as the character approaches the woods. This poem is short and has the ability to portray numerous meanings and symbols through out the poem. 

     However in his second collection frosts way of writing significantly shifts to a less traditional poetic looking pieces to a more short story. He opens the collection with the poem Mending Wall, which is not divided into individually sonnets but instead flows more like a short story. This poem is filled with numerous symbols and connections throughout like that of a story with a central theme of a wall.

     Both of these poems show Frosts diversity in his writing abilities as he is able to do both traditional poems as well as some that are somewhat unorthodox and appear to be more of a story.