Simple Tasks In Robert Frost's Poetry

Robert Frost is a renowned poet and writer of the 19th to 20th century whose works have revolved around peculiar and unfamiliar topics during the time. Frosts works of poetry revolves around the exploration of simple tasks and how these tasks relate to certain meanings and ideas of poetic meaningless. Frost Conveys theses somewhat absurd ideas using one-dimensional language and structures his poems to give his work a melodic or specific pace that conveys the message to the audience. The journey to which the reader endures through his poems shows the nature of how simple tasks can be used to convey a more significant meaning.
First of all, Frost exerts the conceptualised ideas of simplistic tasks and how these ideas affect us on a more widened

Another example of Frost uses structure to make his poems more impactful is in ‘After Apple Picking’ where Frost slows down the pace in specific sections to emphasize the speaker’s descent into his dreams. The speaker notes “Magnified apples appear and disappear, Stem end and blossom end, and every fleck of russet showing clear.” This use of enjambment drags out the poem and creates a fragmented effect which emphasizes that the speaker is going through a dream, and also symbolises the effects of age on reality where you lose your perception of reality and enter a dreamlike state. Frost uses structure to make his ideas and exploration of ordinary tasks more impactful to the

One example of this is in ‘Mowing’ where the speaker questions what the scythe is trying to communicate to him “Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun, something perhaps, about the lack of sound” the interchanging orientation of the sentences “perhaps it was something” and “something perhaps” juxtaposes the back and forth motion of the scythe as it cuts through the grass. This makes the poem more immersive and melodic to the audience and gives the effect of the hypnotic motions the scythe brings along with the heat of the sun the speaker contemplates that is making him lose his sanity. Frost also uses this style in ‘After Apple Picking’ using long pauses to represent the falling motions of apples falling from the tree as the speaker notes “For all, That struck the earth, No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble, Went surely to the cider-apple heap” Here Frost creates a pause after the first and second lines as well as gradual elongated lines to create the sense of apples slowly falling from trees then bouncing and rolling represented by the long line about the condition of apples after hitting the ground. Frost uses sound of sense here to once again add more depth to the poem by focusing on