Essay About Robert Frost And Sense Of Greater Meaning

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A close look at two poets
Almost all of it had some sort of symbolism to show that the author is trying to convey
a message. Robert Frost is probably the one who is best known for his use of
symbolism and imagery. All of the stories that we read in class seem to have a
hidden meaning or a deeper meaning than what was actually written. Robert Frost makes
the usage of symbolism gave his poems a sense of greater meaning and really took his
writing to the next level. He was able to incorporate his ideas without messing up the
story and really keeping it interesting. Emerson, on the other hand, chose to write his
poetry in a more straight forward approach and had very little symbolism.
Although both Frost and Emerson are great authors, their writing styles differed in the
sense that Emerson was able to get his point across, but Frost always used symbolism in
his writings. They did, however, write with a strong usage of imagery.
The definition of symbolism is a person, place, object, image, word or event that
evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literary
significance. Robert Frost tended to use nature as his symbols. He loved nature and was
always able to paint such a good picture that it was hard to distinguish the real
meaning of his poetry. In “Mending Wall” (pg 1031) a wall that keeps getting broken,
down and the neighbors keep repairing it. What Frost is really saying is that the
fence represents relationships, and to have a good relationship, a person must work at
it, and you either build walls or you break them down so you can get to know people.
In “The Road Not Taken” (pg.1028) Frost writes about two different
roads in the middle of the woods, and the person telling the story has to choose one over
the other. What he was trying to relate about the two roads was the decisions we have in
life, the best for us and the one which is not the correct one. Everybody has choices to
make and most take the one that everybody else takes, but he did not take the road less
traveled. In this poem, he relates life to a journey and he basically relates to everyone
because everyone has to make choices in their lifetime. Some of the choices are different
because if you do one thing and not the other, in a sense you could be altering your life
and we have to make choices because we can’t have everything. “The Road Not Taken” is
probably Frost’s best poem with the use of symbolism as it can be seen in the context that
the road not taken can be related to life.
Ralph