On The Intellectual Activity Robert Frost’s Poems

Intellectual poetry contains three levels of traits that would be rhetorical device, content traits and thinking traits. The rhetorical devices in the intellectual activities include wit, impersonal writing, objective correlative, irony, metaphor, dramatic writing, and so on. The content traits consist of unification of sensibility, poetic wisdom as well as ambiguity. The thinking traits of intellectual practice fall into three parts, namely, traditional sense, historical sense and religious sense.In the approach of T.S. Eliot’s poetic theory, therefore, debate over Robert Frost’s intellect traits has tended to dominate discussion of this study which fells into three levels accordingly. First, analysis is devoted to the rhetorical devices as irony, metaphor, dramatic writing and sound of sense as well. Second, poetic wisdom, poetic ambiguity and black poetry will be discussed to illustrate his content traits. Further, a favor to tradition together with a question to religion can be aroused in Frost’s thinking traits. Based on the analysis of the present study, the author puts forward that it is hard to attribute Robert Frost to the school of T.S. Eliot’s, yet to great extent, Frost’s poetic practice exemplifies the core of intellectual writing, that is, the poetic wisdom and the traditional sense. Thus, there have many reasons to attribute Robert Frost to a modernist poet.