ENG 2104 Lecture Notes - Iambic Tetrameter, Robert Frost, Free Verse
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One of the greatest american poets of the early 20th century. Poems are either in iambic pentameter or iambic tetrameter. This is not the free verse that begins to emerge as the dominant poetic mode postmodernism. Able to yoke poetry in away that makes his poems much more intimate and natural than our experience of many of these verse forms, particularly in the victorian forms (in comparison to, say, tennyson) Aspires to become a regional poet that reflects new england as subject matter and shaper of form. In reaction to the make it new declaration of pound, frost found ways to work within the confines of poetic forms while also bringing them forth to the working class ideal of the poet and the reader. Certain surface ease to frost"s poems seem to open up to interpretation and use metaphors that are open to the amount of cliche. Tension between rhythm of speech and rhythms of form.
