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Robert Frost Research Paper

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Robert Frost’s unique wording, thought, use of imagery and traditional/modernist writing helps put out his connection of nature to everyday human experiences and life throughout his poetry. Frost was two types of writers in one person, he was a modernist writer and a traditional writer. A modernist writer writes simple, pessimistic, doesn’t connect much with history, and leaves their writing a little vague. A traditionalist writer writes with meter, rhyme, connects with history, and is more natural or uses more natural images. Frost wanted to enhance meaning into his poetry, and he did. Robert Frost creates a picture with his words to make you …show more content…

His poems are filled with different types of imagery to make you sense what you are reading. For example, his poem Birches uses lots of imagery. In the poem Birches he wrote, “ You may see trunks arching in the woods. Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground, like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun. “ Robert Frost would turn ordinary poems into extraordinary poems. His wording interests his readers and pulls them in. In his poem, After Apple-Picking, he wrote, “ My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree toward heaven still. And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill beside it, and there may be two or three apples I didn’t pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples I am drowsing off. Frost’s poems usually have a great meaning in them, which then he uses specific wording, imagery and natural imagery to portray that meaning out into his

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