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Similarities in Robert Frost Poems Essay

Poems are not just the ending words of a line that have to rhyme in a specific pattern, although they can be. Poems are not just annoying verses that we have to read for class, although they can be. Poems are a unique form of writing in which poets express their innermost feelings and inspire their readers, by giving them something that they can relate to. Robert Frost accurately demonstrates all of these features in a multitude of his poems. Robert Frost lived in a time when the American society had just begun. The fundamental philosophy of Robert's poetry is rooted in the customary New England individualism, and his work shows his strong compassion for the values of early American society. All of Robert Frost's poems posses the same qualities which are making lifelong choices, looking back at the past, a place where you can relax, and also craving death, which are consistent in all of his poems.

One quality that remains the same in all of his poems is making a choice that you cannot go back on, and will effect your entire life. The strongest example of this is in the road not taken. The speaker has to make a very important decision that he cannot go back on, and will effect his entire life. He has to chose between two very different roads, one that most people chose, and one that is less traveled by "two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." The same decision had to be made in another one of Robert Frost's poems. In After Apple-Picking, the speaker regrets that he made the choice of picking apples. He even starts to have nightmares about apples because of his choice. Robert Frost's poems are not only about making lifelong choices, they are also all contain speakers who are looking back at their own life. In the poem Birches, the speaker looks at a boy who is swinging through trees and looks back upon his own life, when he was a child swinging through trees. In "the road not taken", the speaker tells a story when he is looking back at his own life, "I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence," The speaker has a flashback to the point of his life where he had to make a choice. He may have been on his deathbed, or just at an old age when he described his flashback. The same example is shown in the poem "Birches". "I was once a swinger of birches, and so I dream of going back to be." The speaker in Birches is probably at an old age, or on his deathbed, and telling his kids about his childhood. Robert Frost not only uses the ideas of making an important decisions, and flashbacks in his poems, he also uses quiet places where one can relax, and also death in his poems.

Using a large variety of concepts in his poems, Robert Frost demonstrates the idea of unique places where one can get away from all troubles, and death. In the poem "Birches", Frost tries to show that even though on can have an infinite amount of problems, one can still go to a play where "only play was what he found himself, summer or winter he could play himself." This concept is also consistent in "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening". The speaker is riding on a gorse to complete an errand when he comes to the woods which are "lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep." Evidently, the speaker cannot stay in his relaxing place for long, but he enjoys his time in the woods. Robert Frost not only likes to use a place of relaxation in his poems, he also likes to use the theory of death in his poems. Death is used greatly in Robert Frost's poems. Robert Frost may not know what happens after death, "And half grant what I wish and snatch me away not to return...toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more" (Birches). The speaker is craving to die, but not to die forever. The speaker wants to return to Earth because of all of the love that it has. He wants to be reincarnated. In the poem "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" the same death is proposed. The speaker is very tired, and has not completed his errand, although he still has "miles to go before I sleep". The same line is repeated twice. The speaker has a long path to go in his life, and he still has a lot to do before he dies. Death not only occurs in "Birches" and "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening", it also occurs in "After Apple-Picking". The speaker is debating with himself whether a sleep can be forever or just for the night, "Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, or just some human sleep." The speaker is unsure whether he will awake the next day, or never awake because death is coming.


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