Sunday, November 10, 2013

Frost's Poetry Themes

Although all of Frost's poems have common themes, the poems he sections together are connected in a greater way.  For example, using the poems we've read:

NORTH OF BOSTON
In this section, Frost focuses on relationships and different "walls" that are created.  He uses different walls such as physical walls, found in Mending Wall, and emotional walls, found in Home Burial.

MOUNTAIN INTERVAL
I can connect "The Road not Taken" and "Oven Bird" in that they are both about making decisions.  The Road not Taken ends with the narrator choosing the road less traveled by.  The Oven Bird, on the other hand, needs to make his own decisions instead of waiting for something to happen.

A WITNESS TREE
Written for his secret love, this section has an upbeat, lovestruck feel as we saw in the Silken Tent.

1 comment:

  1. I found it very interesting that each section was very different, in the sense that they were each trying to portray different themes and ideas. I'm still wondering though why Frost chose to title each section what he did, considering the themes each section had? For example, why didn't he choose to name the first section something having to do with walls, since that was the overall idea/concept Frost was portraying.

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