1. Robert Frost
... a painter of charming postcard scenes and a front-porch philosopher dispensing consolation and cracker-barrel wisdom, but behind these stereotypes there is in Frost's work a tragic and a terrifying poet, whose deepest note is one of inevitable human isolation" (Literature Online). Frost's poems do "paint charming postcards," but that is what makes them so appealing and self-assuring. Lawrance Thompson said that the ... to take carefully, but is unable to decide. Then as Frost shows to readers, the speaker is looking for the best route by searching deep into the "undergrowth." "Frost pre...
- Word Count: 2122
- Approx Pages: 8
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School