Peotry

Frost’s poetry is simplistic yet complex. Discuss with reference of two poems you have studied.

Poetry is a careful treatment of language and made to sound effective and often rhyming with its complication and sophisticated language, structure and format. Thus, in accordance to its richness in language literacy features, it is mainly made simple but often contain further meaning behind its simplicity, which appears to be rather complex. The respective of the poem is merely difficult to interpret because despite the common sense that people have, people might perceive the poem in various way thus produce different understanding. However, the style, imagery, structure, alliteration and some of other poetic techniques show a poet’s individual persona.

Robert Frost is a very interesting poet whom associates his poems with nature and to base relevance to nature as well. His language happens to be natural, simple and effortless compare to the poetry occurring during his time. The predominant medium of his poem, as it already mentioned earlier, is nature. Nature may indicate simplistic point of view of the world, however, Robert Frost often not talking about nature, but associate nature within his poem to emphasise

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This is suggesting us an idea of incapability of both sides to harm each other thus the poet questioning the need of the wall. The appearance of very effective blended metaphor in this poem really makes this poem difficult to interpret between normal life and the meaning of the poem. And yet, the poem is simplistic because literally it seems to be a single point of view and a single normal life. Hence through the use of sophisticated language techniques, structure, and style, as well as symbolism, the two poems by Robert Frost reveal to the sense of the reader as a simplicity and yet complexity through ‘The Line-Gang’ and ‘Mending Wall’. The last line repeated a sentence from a previous sentence ‘Good fences make good neighbours’.

Two of his most famous poems ‘The Line-Gang’ and ‘The Mending Wall’ are very suitable to this case since they both contain several quantities of similarities. This is shown through the use of words ‘I’ as the first person rather than telling the reader about someone else by using third person such as ‘he’, ‘she’ or ‘they’. As for the rest of the poem, there are some ideas of the existence of human with their activities, which is regarded as an inconvenient to the poet. Symbolism then takes place whereas ‘neighbour’ he meant in real life is both sides of the bloc.

‘Mending Wall’ is one of Robert Frost’s most popular poems. However, his questions are only answered with one simple thought, more likely to be an old notion where the truth of it is still questioned, his neighbour answered him ‘Good fences make good neighbours’. The symbolism is perfectly used to emphasise his idea since it invites our sense that Frost’s position in the middle of two ‘neighbours’ or two quarrelling bloc. The use of symbolism here indicates the strong impulsive word since they contain similarity of a strong consonant ‘d’. The symbolism occurring where the poet announce himself as an ‘apple orchard’ and his neighbour as a ‘pine’.

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