Research Paper On Robert Frost

Bliss. Misery. Gloom. Satisfaction. Desire. Since the beginning of time, mankind has experienced identical emotions to similar stimuli. Once in awhile, the world encounters a mind unlike the rest, a mind that dares to react to certain stimuli in manners unconventional to society. Robert Frost, one of these odd but brilliant minds, breaks the norms of how to acknowledge specific stimuli with everyday emotions. Frost, in one of his most remarkable works of poetry concerning autumn, My November Guest, showcases his oddity to his audience through experiencing bliss, a faint happiness, and even an underlying pleasure from the gloomy, melancholy sights of November days. In his 1912 publication, Frost eloquently pens his work to display his admiration

Frost then describes his desire to listen to his sorrow, an entity the audience never learns the true form of. He discloses this entity adores sullen, lonely nature but believes that he is unable to grasp this strain of beauty. Frost concludes My November Guest through expressing he in fact does appreciate such beauty, but “it were vain to tell her so” as the forlorn days of November prosper with her

For example, in one interpretation, Frost begins by exemplifying his sorrow as a women. Without this knowledge the poem would not have the meaning it is supposing, therefore providing the illusion that Frost is in fact discussing an actual women and not his sorrow. Moreover, the bulk of the poem describes and emphasizes Frost’s sorrow through statements such as “She loves the bare, the withered tree” and “She’s glad the birds are gone away.” Together these help to create an overall theme of sorrow unable to be detected if the individual statements stood