Alienation And Reconciliation In Robert Frost's Poetry

Robert Frost is one of the most outstanding poets in the 20th century American literature. His poems seem to be straight, plain and acceptable. However, something much more meaningful can always be found in the plain words after careful reading. With an analysis of Frost's poetry, this thesis is an attempt to discuss alienation and reconciliation that lie beneath his poems.Frost has the skill of reconciling the conflict and alienation between human beings and nature. Beneath the relaxed surface of the language, Frost's poems progress by way of a series of oppositions and ambiguities. He tends to combine alienation and reconciliation in terms of writing techniques concerning naturalistic and imagist perspective. In his poems, alienation and reconciliation between man and nature coexist almost at the same time. The influence of Transcendentalism and the influence of Darwin's Theory in his poems can be found from his descriptions of nature sometimes in the tone of appreciation and sometimes in the tone of terror.