How Does Robert Frost's Life Affected American Poetry?
Robert Frost is known as one of the most famous poets of the early 20th century for many different reasons all the way from his unique writing style and also how he rose to fame and out of poverty in such a little amount of time. He’s risen to such fame that a lot of times his poems are read to and studied by children and young adults all around the world. Some of his unique writing styles involve his detailed poems of nature such as “The Road Not Taken,” “Fire and Ice,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” and many others. Frost was able to rise to fame in a very short amount of time, although there were still some critics who thought that his works were that of something a normal person could write. Robert Frost through his complicated yet simple style of writing poetry has affected American literature in such a way that many people recognize him, alongside others, as one of the greatest American poets of his time due to his description of nature and modern events in
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Not only has he been praised for a lot of what he’s written but some people don’t think his works are all that great or think they are too simple as good of a writer as he is. On his poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” George Montiero connects this poem to one of Frost’s in his later years that has a darker meaning. He says that, “the loss of a man's horse may be as great a loss as that of one's life” (Montiero, 5) referring to the death of the horse in the poem “The Draft Horse.” He praises how Frost seemed to continue a poem almost forty years later, and many other authors praise how Frost would make small references like “my little horse” and “too heavy a horse now” connecting two different poems from completely different times. Things like this won Frost a lot of recognition much later after his death. There are hundreds of reviews now that point out his references nowadays and what makes him such a great american
Not only has he been praised for a lot of what he’s written but some people don’t think his works are all that great or think they are too simple as good of a writer as he is. On his poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” George Montiero connects this poem to one of Frost’s in his later years that has a darker meaning. He says that, “the loss of a man's horse may be as great a loss as that of one's life” (Montiero, 5) referring to the death of the horse in the poem “The Draft Horse.” He praises how Frost seemed to continue a poem almost forty years later, and many other authors praise how Frost would make small references like “my little horse” and “too heavy a horse now” connecting two different poems from completely different times. Things like this won Frost a lot of recognition much later after his death. There are hundreds of reviews now that point out his references nowadays and what makes him such a great american