Robert Frost Metaphors

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Robert Frost is an American poet, whose work was originally published in England before it was ever published in America. Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874, his father, William, was a journalist and his mother, Isabel, was a teacher. Frost unfortunately, was tragedy prone. He had five children, whom all but one, passed away at a young age. Their remaining daughter Irma was committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1974. Frost put his frustrations into writing, and could express all his deep thoughts through writing. The history of Frosts’ career starts when he published his first poem, “My butterfly: An Elegy”. Frost has had over 18 captivating poems published. One poem Frost wrote, “Out, out-”, is about a boy who accidently cuts his hand with a saw, and it ends up …show more content…
Imagery, when used well, takes advantage of all the reader's senses and builds them into something intense and almost real in their imagination. A prime example of imagery in the poem can be found in this quote: “Sweet scented stuff when the breeze drew across it. And from there those that lifted eyes could count. Five mountain ranges one behind the other. Under the sunset far into Vermont.” (212). This quote clearly states that the poem is set in a rural Vermont area, surrounded by mountains. The sweet scents and the cool breeze are a key factor for understanding how peaceful this place seems to be, before disaster occurs. The time of the day is stated when Frost says, “And nothing happened: day was all but done.” (212). According to this, it is the end of the day. I find this ironic because it is the end of the boy’s work-day, but also the end of his life. Critic, Bill Wiles, mentions that he believes Robert Frost tackled the tension between the perfect world of the magazine photographer and the hard-bitten reality of life on a Vermont

Robert Frost Metaphors

Robert Frost spent most of his life around rural places which most likely inspired him to use natures in his poetry. Frost uses many emotions, such as anger, happiness, sadness and loneliness, can be connected between nature and humanity. In his poetry, Frost uses nature as a reflection of human experiences that can have seasons, just like life cycle. Understanding symbolic meaning of the words and metaphor in Frost’s poetry helps to analyze the figurative meaning in the poem. Literally, "The Road…

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Not Taken is a poem that is a metaphor about the time and consideration it takes a person to make a decision when. According to the biography of Robert Frost, Frost made decisions that changed his life completely. In The Road Not Taken, Frost uses the path as a metaphor for life in general. Who is Robert Frost, and how does The Road Not Taken symbolize with his life? Frost was a simple man. He also made decisions that the ordinary person would not have made. Frost left Harvard University and spent…

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Robert Frost was a modern poet; he typically used his poems by using nature to describe a type of life event. He goes into depth with his poems using nature metaphors to perhaps make the reader look at life in a different way. The three poems in the following paragraphs that will be used are, “The Road Not Taken,” “Fire and Ice,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” The poems will be broken down to show how Robert Frost used them with nature and what he truly meant by them. In the poem, “The Road Not Taken”…

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Personification of Robert Frost Nature has inspired and creatively influenced countless poets from early primitive ages, to the late present. They have used the very elements of nature as metaphors for virtually every human emotion. Very few, however, have masterfully crafted their work to vividly express and reflect the range of nature’s power and influence, or suited the tone of a poem to encompass both human nature and elemental, purity. It can easily be argued that Frost believed little difference…

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