ENGL 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Robert Frost, Free Verse, Net.
25 Sep 2018
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Frost said that writing in free verse is like playing tennis without a net. He wrote with heavily accented li(cid:374)es a(cid:374)d ofte(cid:374) used ia(cid:373)(cid:271)i(cid:272) (cid:373)eter. Being literally on the ground and figuratively moving up and down, through the imagination. If metaphors were to work easily, they would not be an interesting phenomenon. The speaker"s to(cid:374)e i(cid:374) this poe(cid:373) see(cid:373)s to be from someone who is getting older and it has something of a rambling quality. Truth and imagination, earth and heaven, concrete and spirit, control and abandon, flight and return. We have the earth below, we have the world of the treetops and above, and we have the motion between these two poles. The present moment: he sees birches bent to left and right and likes to think some boy has been swinging them. He is creating meaning for the trees and personifying them.
