Katasha Pollard
Intro to Lit.
Kelly Gamble
10/12/15
Robert Frost
Robert Frost’s poems and stories bring him alive as a person and poet, showing him in the process of thinking through, reevaluating, and stating many of his most important beliefs, ideas, interpretations, and rhymes. The poems and stories are interesting in themselves. They show a noteworthy intelligence at work and provide access to the (typically hidden) processes underlying Frost’s pieces, as well as a set of his most important concerns. Also the most important are Frost’s general explanations on human nature, behavior, also on social and governmental association (these often struck me as remarkably perceptive of modern scientific and ethical view). Studies will reasonably, …show more content…
Frost is very traditional; though he has very little use for customs. He is old-fashioned in the greatest sense of words, with a strong mixture of Yankee shrewdness and common sense. Each age group, he believes, must reconsider the customs by which they live and abandon the outdated ones in order to keep vibrant those which are thorough. Not to do this keeps man from getting better; grasps him, to the mental habits of an occupant in the Stone Age. This does not mean that the poet that has faith in a person should grasp on every new and untested idea that passes by, or that he should abandon a belief that happens to be out of …show more content…
He said “People have sometimes asked me to sum up my poetry he stated that he could not do that. He said it is the same with my feeling about God. If you learn the way a man feels about God, don’t ask him to put a name on himself. If you would like to know the way a man feels about God, watch his life, hear his words” You can also place a coin with its value unknown under a piece of paper, and you can tell what its mark is by rubbing a pencil over the paper back and forth. That is when you can tell what the coin is worth. That is just the same as trying to find out about a man’s feelings about
Intro to Lit.
Kelly Gamble
10/12/15
Robert Frost
Robert Frost’s poems and stories bring him alive as a person and poet, showing him in the process of thinking through, reevaluating, and stating many of his most important beliefs, ideas, interpretations, and rhymes. The poems and stories are interesting in themselves. They show a noteworthy intelligence at work and provide access to the (typically hidden) processes underlying Frost’s pieces, as well as a set of his most important concerns. Also the most important are Frost’s general explanations on human nature, behavior, also on social and governmental association (these often struck me as remarkably perceptive of modern scientific and ethical view). Studies will reasonably, …show more content…
Frost is very traditional; though he has very little use for customs. He is old-fashioned in the greatest sense of words, with a strong mixture of Yankee shrewdness and common sense. Each age group, he believes, must reconsider the customs by which they live and abandon the outdated ones in order to keep vibrant those which are thorough. Not to do this keeps man from getting better; grasps him, to the mental habits of an occupant in the Stone Age. This does not mean that the poet that has faith in a person should grasp on every new and untested idea that passes by, or that he should abandon a belief that happens to be out of …show more content…
He said “People have sometimes asked me to sum up my poetry he stated that he could not do that. He said it is the same with my feeling about God. If you learn the way a man feels about God, don’t ask him to put a name on himself. If you would like to know the way a man feels about God, watch his life, hear his words” You can also place a coin with its value unknown under a piece of paper, and you can tell what its mark is by rubbing a pencil over the paper back and forth. That is when you can tell what the coin is worth. That is just the same as trying to find out about a man’s feelings about