Conflict In Robert Frost's Poetry

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Robert Frost was considered the celebrity of the poetry world and “perhaps the most successful of American poets” (Caravants). Although he was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874 (“Robert”), he spent most of his life in New England, and it was there that he picked up managed to develop a lot of the traits seen in his poetry today. He moved to England with his wife in an attempt to get published because there were more media sources and his plan paid off. In his poems “Fire and Ice,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Home Burial,” and “Mending Wall,” there is a usage of a perfuse amount of imagery, a common setting in New England, and the use of everyday language. These poems also include themes of loss and mystery. Robert Frost's life experiences influenced his work along with the work of Dante and other great poets, which won him plenty of nominations for some of the greatest prizes in poetry like the Pulitzer and he was even nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1950.
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The conflict is developed through the use of imagery when frost writes, "Between the wood and frozen lake / The darkest evening of the year" (5-8). This demonstrates how the speaker does not normally stop in this area but scenery forced the speaker to stop and admire everything he was seeing and forms a conflict within the speaker over staying to admire what he saw and attempt to explore it or to carry on with their journey to keep the promise he had made. The conflict is resolved when the speaker states, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep." The description of the woods indicates that the speaker admires the woods because of the mystery behind them, but ultimately, he decides to continue their

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