Robert Frost is famous for his ability to ask the reader about their life with the use of simplistic words. Frost does this by using the poetic technique of duality. Duality is the contraction ... is because two of Frost children died at a young age. This adds death and darkness to his poetry. In the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" the quotes "The woods are lovely, dark, and deep" add to the darkness of the poem. The woods are a metaphor for death and in the poem his calls death " ... ...

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... , which was once, renamed the "gold gray poet." Frost was an amusing character in his years. He thought that charm and amusement was something that writers needed to have. Frost quotes, "to be at all charming or ever bearable, the way almost rigidly prescribed."(Richardson, 20) He was also quoted to have said, "I'm never serious except when I'm fooling." (Robert, 2) But people ... on a Snowing Evening", one of his most talked about poems, uses more of a limerick style of writing. (Perry, 187) The poem "The Road Not Taken" is one of his most famous, due to its use of literal and figurativ...

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