sthetic in poetry, Frost tended to focus on
             language itself. He believed that what we miss in literature is the
             "sentence sounds that underlie the words" (1195). Because language exists
             only "in the mouths of men" (1195), Frost believed that the poet should
             write "with his ear to the voice" (1195). While Frost was implementing
             this new style, he did not completely relinquish conventional metrical
             forms of poetry. He worked the two forms together by placing the
             traditional meters against the rhythms of the poem's voice. Spiller
             asserts that the "spoken word and the verse pattern must fight out the
             issue between them. But the struggle when supervised by a skillful poet
             will end in reconciliation" (1195). Frost described this technique by
             discerning between meter and sound. He stated, "Meter has to so with beat,
             and sound posture has a definite relation as an alternate tone between the
             beats. The two are one in creation but separate in analysis" (Frost qtd.
             in Spiller). This form offers us with poetry that appears to be simple but
             is in actuality a very complex combination of tones, irony, and emotional
             Robert Frost is a metaphysical poet in the tradition set forth Emily
             Dickinson. As with most metaphysical poetry, Frost aims to go beyond the
             seen to the unseen. Spiller observes that most of his poetry is fixed on
             the "mysterious moment when the two planes cross" (Spiller 1191). Frost's
             poems generally require attentive reading, as casual reading will not
             realize when the common features disappear and become transfigured. In
             this transfiguration, the tension exists between the simplistic and its
             surrounding mystery. Poetry was dramatic for Frost and some of his most
             dramatic scenes occur when the simplistic fact reaches its metaphysical
             The rare technique of making small events memorable by adding vigor and
             a certain lilt to them is certainly characteristic of Frost. ...