Robert Frost
Good Morning/ afternoon everyone, the poet that I chose for my analysis is Robert Lee Frost. Robert Frost was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and playwright. During his lifetime, he won over 4 Pulitzer prizes and received more than 40 honor degrees. I have chosen to analyse two of his very popular and well-known poems ‘The road not taken’ and ‘stopping by the woods on a snowy evening’. Frost experienced a hard lifestyle throughout his journey which is often reflected in his poems through the genres of isolation, sense of duty, rationality, migration, nature, etc.
Robert Frost was born on the 26th of March 1874 and died at the age of 88 due to complication in the prostate surgery on the 29th of Jan 1963. In his early years, his father
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In the beginning of the poem he creates a mood of astonishment and admiration through the use of words such as ‘To watch his woods fill up with snow’, ‘My little horse must think it queer’, ‘To stop without a farmhouse near’. Later in the poem, he calms and assuages his astonishment with the beauty of nature by repeating the last verse ‘And miles to go before I sleep’ and through the verse “In the darkest evening of the year”. These verses reflect on the theme of isolation as he is the only one who can experience and see the beauty of these woods as he has chosen this path alone and does not have anyone travelling along with him. The use of assonance in the words also helps add emphasis on the fact that even the horse thinks that it’s strange to stop in the middle of woods filled with nature/snow. The use of rhythm and repetition in the last two verses emphasises on the idea that we are on earth for a purpose and we should not waste our time watching a beautiful thing for hours and hours. It also assures the reader that the poet is comfortable with his choice of decision It also adds emphasis to the idea that everyone’s final destination is death which is referred as ‘sleep’. Hyperbole also creates a dramatic effect on the mood as it creates an imagery of darkness and death in the verse ‘in the darkest evening of the year’ which assists the reader to relate the poem back to isolation through the resemblance of