Robert Frost is one of the greatest American poets. He is able to use his words to send a message. Lafferty says about Frost, “Taking his symbols from the public domain, Frost developed, as many critics note, an original, modern idiom and a sense of directness and economy that reflect the imagism of Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell.” His writings have meaning and depth to them. Robert Frost is able to connect his poems in a pastoral way. James defines pastoral as, “ Viewed alternately as a genre, mode, or convention in poetry (as well as in literature generally, art, and music), the pastoral tradition refers to a lineage of creative works that idealize rural life and landscapes, while the term “pastoral” refers to individual poems or other works in the tradition.” In all six of Robert Frost’s poems, he relates them to rural communities and shows that poetry set in rural places can be powerful. In Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, he connects it to pastoral poetry. Frost describes a traveller going past the woods. He quotes, “My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near. Between the woods and frozen lake the darkest evening of the year.” This man that has a home inside the village …show more content…
Robert Frost recited this poem at President Kennedy’s inauguration. This poem states that, “We were withholding from our land of living. And forthwind found salvation in surrender. Such As we were we gave ourselves outright (The deed of gift was many deeds of war).” We as American’s gave yourself this land, yet it came with different tasks. Frank states, “The ominous thirteenth line of Robert Frost's "The Gift Outright" is made to appear all the more ominous by its entire lack of tonal and grammatical relationship with any thing else in the poem, an isolation signalled, of course, by the parentheses.” This adds to the poem giving it