Robert Frost Poetry Analysis

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Did you know that two of Robert Frost 's kids died from influenza? Maybe that is why he wrote poems about life. There is one about being innocent at a young age. The others are about growing up and making decisions and death. Robert Frost has so much enthusiasm about life in his poems. Other events that may have influenced him to write poems the way he does are, visiting different places and things. When he moved, he went to different colleges and got different experiences to write poems. In Frost’s three poems, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (“SBW”), “The Road Not Taken” (“RNT”), and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (“NGS”), there are both similarities and differences in form and style, theme and meaning, and tone and mood.

First off, in the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, the form of it is a traditional form. Next, the style of the poem has rhyme scheme, repetition, and metaphors. For example, on line 13, 14, 15, and 16 he uses rhyme scheme at the end of the line. He uses the words deep, keep, sleep, and sleep again for the rhyme scheme. The theme of the poem is that you should put out all of your effort before it ends. The meaning of the poem is life and death. The reader can infer this because when he says “miles to go before I sleep”, it means he is not ready to die. The tone of the poem is mysterious because when the reader reads it, it sounds mysterious like a ghost is reading it. The mood is it flows because it is calm and it flows well. Similarly, the

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