ENG201Y1 Lecture : Frost Poems
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Eng201y1y (summer) reading poetry may 18th, 2011. Frost sets his poetry in rural new england from the perspective of a farmer in order to show the entire world. Moves from the specific to the universal insists that we come too. He promises that we"ll understand what"s fundamental in the pastoral poet implicitly argues that the larger world (politics, etc) has lost sight of its roots in nature. It invites us to come back to the place we"ve lost in poetry (verbally) It"s the way landscape forms through the nexus of images into the symbol. This simplicity propels us beyond the literal; less is more. A calf vs. a small brown calf ----> frost"s simplicity vs. The pastoral poet wants to help move to the larger world through rural life. Simplicity is functional in taking the leap into meaning. Metaphor a symbol is a metaphor and a metaphor is a symbol can be read on two levels:
