He used to wander in the woods with his kids, and looked into the starry sky before sleep, from which he got the spiritual meaning out of nature. Frost possesses deep love and sympathy towards nature which is the source for inspiration. Wilbur Dee Case is a poet and literary critic living in Washington state. Nature is the most distinguished feature in Robert Frost’s poems. The imagists, intent on taking pictures of the World, like many in photography and film, reveled in the surface of reality because they did not believe in many of the nonphysical ideas, like gentility, beauty, patience, kindness, etc. Williams filters out any Romantic attitudes about the wheelbarrow or the chickens but in the process also filters out, what he considered, too much sentiment. But though Frost is no Romantic, he doesn’t quite want to toss metaphor out Williams does. Crane and Hemingway), whereas the Dark Romantics reveled in it. Realists and modernists tended to abhor metaphor (compare Hawthorne and Melville to S. Though Williams seems almost taciturn, so too is Frost but whereas Williams cuts off anything other than the list of things in and of themselves, Frost suggests feelings, and invites the reader to “come along.” Where Frost uses the farm setting as part of his meaning, Williams is more abstract, “so much depends/ upon.” Frost is interested in imbuing his work with nuanced feeling Williams is spare with feeling and language. It totters when she licks it with her tongue. (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): The red sun ablaze, casts warm shades of orange and yellow over the icy foothills covered in white Winters domain held tight, marked by heavy footprints and a long staff imprint the travelers identity in snow. There is a visual difference between the two poems. the tidal gusts of Grandfather Frosts snow flake winter whim. It is interesting to compare it to another relatively famous eight-lined poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow,” by William Carlos Williams. The opening lines of the two quatrains begin the same, and the ending lines are exactly the same. Structurally the poem is two quatrains, the rhyme scheme is abbc deec, and for such a small poem, it’s surprising how much repetition there is. And third, it does not ostentatiously break with tradition. Second, its tone is gentle and polite, a rarity among the modernists. First, it seems more like a Romantic lyric (that is, 100 years too late) because of its rural depiction and its simple, formal diction. One of the most unlikely poems of the modernist period is that by Robert Frost: “The Pasture.” It is unlikely for many reasons.
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