Wednesday, July 20, 2011

How far and in what ways has Robert frost persuaded you to agree with this view?(in the box below)"it is possible for a good writer to write...

I fully agree that Robert Frost's poetry illustrates that "it is possible for a good writer to write about commonplace things with immense, even startling power."


In addition to the poems named by the other posters, I want to mention Frost's sonnet "Design." On the surface, it's a description of a spider, a web, and a caught moth. On a figurative level, the poem address the question of whether or not the universe is governed (i.e. if it is organized or "designed") by larger forces and, if so, wonders out loud if these forces are good or evil or both good and evil.


Just as is the case with "The Road Not Taken," the poem may be a lot more complicated than it first appears. The poem offers more questions than answers and, as the second source listed below states, Frost's poem may be marked with irony: "Since the structure of the poem departs from tradition [of the love sonnet], the reader may wonder about the appropriateness of 'Design' as its title; perhaps Frost is mocking, or at least questioning, the very notion of order."

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