c voice is the voice of a wise mind: it is clear and sober. Iosif Brodsky also remarked on it: Unlike Russian poets Frost never pours himself out on the piano . Plain language is the first peculiarity of Frost s poems. first, this colloquial language seems to be simply describing nature. But later the reader begins to understand this simplicity is deceitful. It covers the depths of psychological contents: the reader discovers sub textual sense and begins meditating about universal laws of being. This is another feature. Robert Frost said: A poem begins in delight, but ends in wisdom . Take case of Nothing Gold Can Stay .
's first green is gold, hardest hue to hold.early leaf's a flower; only so an hour.leaf subsides to leaf.Eden sank to grief, dawn goes down to day.gold can stay. p align="justify"> first lines remind us that willow leaves opening earlier than the others are yellowish at first. But they gradually become green, and the trees become covered with leaves after shedding off the gold colour. Later these leaves will fall off. However, the most expressive point of this poem is the switch from the landscape to the very depth of the poem s idea. Frost wakens the hidden meaning using only two words of the sixth line - Eden and grief . Unquestionably, the sixth line puts the new (human) measurement in the poem. reader decides what gold means depending on his own imagination. He may consider it is the carefree period of childhood, the gift of love, golden feeling of a child s ignorance, life in general or something else. Frost doesn t impose his own specific interpretation on his readers. This is the third peculiarity of his poems. Take case of The Road Not Taken. Frost lets the reader think: was it the road of life, or some important choice?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, sorry I could not travel both ...
... I shall be telling this with a sighages and ages hence: roads diverged in a wood, and I-took the one less traveled by, that has made all the difference.
fourth peculiarity is Frost s love for nature and his affection to it. It had always been the main figure of his verses. Landscapes appear in every topic of Frost s poetry, and due to this D. A. Priyatkin, a Candidate of Philology, who wrote a dissertation on the topic...
