Robert Frost: Poetical Analyzed
Robert Lee Frost was a poet who wrote most of his poetry based on his past. After college, Frost experienced many tragic events throughout his life. He lived a depressing and miserable life. Unfortunately, Frost had to experience the death of four of his children and his wife, although he still had two children alive with him. Frost had so much loneliness in his life that it ultimately led to his death (Sullivan). With all these dreadful experiences in his life, his poetry was affected tremendously based on what he endured throughout is life. Frost has a very particular style and form, which is what makes him one of the most beloved poets to ever live. Frost’s themes were also affected from his life occurrences, subsequently he wrote about themes like: death, loneliness and isolation. He also chose to write about the theme of nature in his poetry, some poems having to do with death and sorrow, but he chose to write some of his poetry based on nature (Hollander). Robert Frost wrote his poems based on his life experiences he had in his past. Robert Frost had a specific style that can be found in most of his poems, he includes in his poems, some type of end rhyme. For example in the poem “Now Close the Windows”, he includes end rhyme in the entire poem.
Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss;
No bird is singing now, and if there is,
Be it my loss.

It will be long ere the marshes resume,
I will be long ere the earliest bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
But see all wind-stirred. (1-8)

Frost likes using personification in his poems, like “Now close the windows and hush all the fields,” (3). He uses a lot of personification especially on nature in his poems like in the previous one (Oster). Robert Frost wrote a lot of his poetry with a traditional type of