Robert Frost Figurative Language Essay

In our literature book, Literature for Composition by Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, and William E. Cain, I was introduced to Robert Frost and a number of his poems. I found Robert Frost to be an inspiring poet, because he didn’t follow the strict rules of poetry. Instead he found joy in writing poems that were different from normal poems. Reading his poems, I could really tell he focuses on the tone of voice and how he says things. He also uses a wide range of figurative language throughout this poems to give his readers a clear image. Robert Frost’s individuality by doing is own writing, has lead him to be an extremely famous poet. Taking a deeper look into Robert Frost work, imagery is used throughout to help his readers see eye to eye with him. I believe this is what has made his poems loved by so many people and are still being used in poetry today. In his poem “Mowing” (625) the imagery is the scythe whispering. …show more content…
In “Mending Wall” (222) he uses alliteration. The definition of alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds. An example would be “old-stone savage”. A different word sound would be the use of consonance in his poem “Mowing” (625). This is when there is repetition in the consonant sound at the end of the syllables. An example from the poem is when he says “sound beside the woods”. All of the d’s is what make it fit under this category. In his poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (214) there is assonance, alliteration, and rhyme. Since we have already discussed alliteration in one of his others poems we will focus on the rhyme of this poem. Even though I said that Frost did not always follow the rules of poetry he did for this poem because he used the aaba pattern. He put a lot of thought and creativity into this poem. Like I said at the beginning, Frost uses a lot of figurative language to make his poems more vivid to his