Robert Frost
Frost achieved poetic maturity before the beginning of poetic modernism, which was ushered in by the early 20th century movement known as imagism. He therefore had more in common with the 19th century poets and with the Georgians-poets who carried the Victorian tradition into the 20th century-than with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and others who dominated the first half of the 20th century. It is possible to say then, without implying any value judgement, that Frost is a transitional poet between the two centuries.
Frost was an "outsider" during most of his poetic career-a time when those "inside" believed that "a poem should not mean but be." Frost's poems are intended to mean. He thought that a poem should "begin in delight and end in wisdom."
Frost's characteristically defensive posture was not due solely to the fact that his poetic manner was about to be rendered "old-fashioned" by younger poets when his first volume appeared. Demanding density of texture, complex verbal......
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