Thursday, October 25, 2012
Is Frost an innovator?
I was reading an article about Robert Frost on a website called the Poetry Foundation and the writer claims that "Although he avoids traditional verse forms and only uses rhyme erratically, Frost is not an innovator and his technique is never experimental." I don't know whether to agree with this or not...Occasionally Frost would write poems that didn't follow the form of a petrarchan or shakespearean sonnet. Doesn't that mean he was an innovator and experimental?
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When analyzing Frosts' poems in class, I realized the nature of his poems are never following the same traditional format such that Shakespeare used. Therefore I disagree with the writer who claims Frost is not an innovator. Frost was able to master the art of writing a poem with similar structure to a traditional format, but each poem being very different in content. For example, Frost could write a Shakespearean sonnet about nature and then be able to write an entire sentence in one full sentence! Frost was not only an innovator and very experimental, he was also unique.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with what you're saying. Frost made up his own style of poems all the time, not only with the content but the structure as well.
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