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Volume 17:11 November 2017
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The Poetic Art and Vision of Robert Frost with a Focus on His
Pragmatic View of the Relationship between Man and Nature:
A Brief Analysis

Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D.


Abstract

This paper projects Robert Frost as a typical poet of New England and America – almost one among the most eminent poets of the English language winning wide popularity and enjoying the extraordinary academic and official honour heaped on him by a good number of critics, bringing home the fact that Frost is an experimenter and expert in various poetic forms – odes, eclogues, satires, dramatic monologues, dialogues and mosques. It reveals rather beautifully how he is a great metrical artist as well as a great poetic experimenter with ‘right words at the right place’ and how he has embarked upon the noble task of turning the living speech of men and women into poetry in general and turning common words and expressions into literary pearls in particular. It shows neatly how he has proved himself to be an excellent poetic artist considering ‘descriptive power’ as the most wonderful thing in his poetic realm.

Keywords: Robert Frost, poetic form, poetic experiment, living speech, supreme expression.

Robert Frost

Robert Frost was one of the most popular poets of his day and an important cause of his popularity lay in the fact that no poet was so thoroughly a typical poet of New England or America as he was. If popularity could be regarded as the measure of a poet’s eminence, Frost would certainly be among the most eminent poets of the English language. What is most striking about him is not so much the wide popularity that he enjoyed but the extraordinary academic and official honour that was heaped on him. Critics and poets, differing widely amongst themselves in taste and temperament, recognized his eminence. While referring to the honour and recognition given to Robert Frost, Malcolm Cowley rightly said:
“He has been a professor of Amherst, a poet in residence and fellow in letters of Michigan; a Charles Eliot Norton Professor, a Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellow and a Fellow in American Civilization at Harvard, all these being fairly lucrative appointments”.

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Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D.
Professor, Head & Chairperson
School of English & Foreign Languages,
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai – 625 021
Tamilnadu
India
aschelliah@yahoo.com

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