Bobbing for apples: Epistemology and the ambiguous nature of Robert Frost

This thesis explores the epistemological aspects of a selection of Robert Frost's poetry. It uncovers the complex epistemological meaning at work within this selection. This study provides new interpretations of these works and depicts a somewhat overlooked aspect of Frost.;The following pertinent essays, criticism, interviews and texts about Frost are discussed and surveyed in this thesis. Frost's, "The Constant Symbol," and "Education by Poetry." The essays of epistemologists John Locke, George Berkeley, and Immanuel Kant; Frost's lecture, "A Meeting at Breadloaf" (Barnard College), letters to Bernard DeVoto and interviews with editor Edward Connery Latham; Robert Paul Wolff and William and Mabel Sahakian; Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann; Norman N. Holland; Dorothy Judd Hall; Marion Montgomery; Gorham B. Munson; Lawrence Thompson; Laurence Perrine; Lionel Trilling; Peter D. Poland, Elaine Barry and Randall Jarrell; Sidney Cox; Philip L. Gerber; John T. Napier.