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- Although born on the West Coast, he is closely tied to New England, where he lived most of his life, and his poetry takes stock of the people and places of that region in a combination of bold new colloquial rhythms and traditional forms; indeed, his method could be called “the old-fashioned way to be new,” a phrase that Frost used to praise his fellow New England poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.
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Through a frankly revisionist interpretation, he not only demonstrates how Frost's relationship to New England and his attempt to portray himself as the "Yankee farmer poet" affected his poetry; he also shows that the regional identity became a problem both for Frost and for his readers. Originally published in 1979.
- John C. Kemp
May 28, 2006 · To classify Robert Frost as a poet in a traditional New England vein can be dangerously misleading or entirely proper, depending on how you define your terms. Biographically, he was a New Englander not by birth but by adoption - or rather readoption: the first canonical writer to return from the New England diaspora to his parental region and ...
- Lawrence Buell
- 2001
Robert Frost has been called the interpreter of New England, but he might also be called the interpreter of nature and humanity as a whole, for his poetry shows that he is a close observer of both nature and people, and that he portrays their fundamental elements.
- Catherine Elizabeth Nolan
- 1942
Frost’s use of New England dialect is only one aspect of his often discussed regionalism. Within New England, his particular focus was on New Hampshire, which he called “one of the two best states in the Union,” the other being Vermont.
Mar 8, 2015 · Through a frankly revisionist interpretation, he not only demonstrates how Frost's relationship to New England and his attempt to portray himself as the "Yankee farmer poet" affected his poetry; he also shows that the regional identity became a problem both for Frost and for his readers.
- John C. Kemp
- March 08, 2015
Jul 5, 2024 · The publication of Robert Frost's initial literary work, "A Boy's Will" in 1913, was promptly succeeded by the release of "North of Boston" in 1914. These works received high praise from critics, especially for their genuine portrayal of life in New England and their perceptive examination of human emotions and relationships.
Mar 16, 2017 · Summary. Robert Frost, that quintessential New England poet, was not always a New Englander. His father William's dramatic rebellion occurred around 1862 when he ran away from home to fight for Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
