Frost unlike Wordsworth is not a nature mystic. He does not see any affinity between nature and man nor does he find any spirit or power pervading it. Nor does he find any healing power in it which can cure the ills of society and man. For him nature is alien to man.Frost’s attitude to nature reflects the spirit of the present age whose attitude to nature, like all other things, is scientific and realistic. That is why he has not formulated any philosophy about nature. Nor do his poems display the rare exalted moments which are displayed in the poems of the romantic age, particularly in those if Wordsworth. Frost’s poems describe simply his daily and common experience.
The imagery of Frost’s poems is also drawn upon the objects of nature.
“Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning” (Birches)
“And life is too much like a pathless wood” (Birches)
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Frost as a modern poet:
It has been pointed out that his poetry has a disarming simplicity while modern poetry is characterised by complexity and intricacy. In his poetry, we do not find irregular verse-forms, fragmentary sentences, learned illusions and references, ironic contracts, and erudite symbolism, to all of which we are used and which he regarded as the hall-mark of modernity.
Schneider writes, that one of the most serious limitation of Frost’s poetry is that he is out of tune with modern age and all its problems. We may go, therefore, to his poetry for diversion and relief, but not for illumination. Mr. Frost does not understand our time and will make no effort to understand it. When he essays to speak of it, as in the long poem New Hampshire, he shows a surprising lack of comprehension.
Yvor Winters analyses such poems as The Bear to show that Frost admires man as a creature of impulse and instinct, and ridicules the idea of man as a reasoning creature, and this is in marked opposition to modern thought. He has his affinities with the great 19th century romantics rather than with the great
The imagery of Frost’s poems is also drawn upon the objects of nature.
“Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning” (Birches)
“And life is too much like a pathless wood” (Birches)
“The world …show more content…
Frost as a modern poet:
It has been pointed out that his poetry has a disarming simplicity while modern poetry is characterised by complexity and intricacy. In his poetry, we do not find irregular verse-forms, fragmentary sentences, learned illusions and references, ironic contracts, and erudite symbolism, to all of which we are used and which he regarded as the hall-mark of modernity.
Schneider writes, that one of the most serious limitation of Frost’s poetry is that he is out of tune with modern age and all its problems. We may go, therefore, to his poetry for diversion and relief, but not for illumination. Mr. Frost does not understand our time and will make no effort to understand it. When he essays to speak of it, as in the long poem New Hampshire, he shows a surprising lack of comprehension.
Yvor Winters analyses such poems as The Bear to show that Frost admires man as a creature of impulse and instinct, and ridicules the idea of man as a reasoning creature, and this is in marked opposition to modern thought. He has his affinities with the great 19th century romantics rather than with the great