‘The Gift Outright’ was written by the American poet Robert Frost. Largely known for its political assertion, the poem has been referred by many political leaders. Frost read it himself in the inauguration day of President Kennedy. The “preliminary history’ of America is the background of this poem. Frost has written this in Blank Verse … Read more
Introduction ‘The Gift Outright’ is a poem written by Robert Frost. Written in his old age, the poem was first published in 1942 by Virginia Quarterly Review. Because of its political implications, the poem has an interesting reading history. Frost also read it in President John F Kennedy’s inauguration day while improvising the last sentence … Read more
Introduction ‘Acquainted with the Night’ is a poem written by the American poet Robert Frost. It was first published in 1927 in the magazine ‘Virginia Quarterly Review.’ The poem primarily meditates on the isolation of a lonely person. Unlike other poems of Frost where the setting is mostly a country-side is, this poem portrays the … Read more
Acquainted with the Night is a sonnet. Frost has experimented with the form of a sonnet by fusing the rhyme scheme, terza rima. This complex rhyme scheme was invented by Dante for his work ‘Divine Comedy.’ In terza rima, the first and third lines rhyme while the second line rhymes with the first and third … Read more
Introduction Robert Frost wrote ‘Out, Out – ‘in 1916. It is written in the memory of a boy from his neighborhood. The boy used to play with his children. One day, the boy died due to a buzz saw which cut his hand. The theme of the poem is related to many other poems which … Read more
‘Out, out’ is a poem written by the American poet Robert Frost. Frost wrote it in the memory of a neighborhood boy who used to play with his children. The boy died having his hand lacerated by the buzz saw with which he was working. The poem dramatically describes the tragic death of the boy … Read more
Introduction Home Burial is a poem written by Robert Frost. It is one of the most anthologised poems of Frost. It was first published in ‘North of Boston’ in 1914. The poem deals with the marriage of a couple and the intricate way through which it may fall apart. It expresses our feeling of loss … Read more
Home Burial is a dramatic narrative. This poem of Robert Frost was first published in ‘North of Boston’. Frost had a general dislike for free verse. This poem is written Blank Verse and the meter is iambic pentameter. One can also say that the poem is a lyric narrative. The poem has a young married … Read more
Introduction ‘After Apple-Picking’ is one of the most celebrated and admired poems of the American poet Robert Frost. It first appeared in his collection ‘North of Boston’ in 1923. The poem describes the melancholic exhaustion after the intense and long labor of apple-picking. Fusing the pastoral and the poetic, the poem bears the Frostian signature … Read more
‘After Apple-Picking’ is constantly nominated as one of the greatest poems written by the American poet Robert Frost. First appearing in 1923 collection ‘North of Boston’, this poem has remained favorite across the world. The poem depicts someone who is on the verge of exhaustion due to working too much while apple-picking. The final indifference … Read more
