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Robert Frost is an American poet - What do you find specifically American in his poems and what do you find is universal?
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ROBERT FROST IS AN AMERICAN POET. WHAT DO YOU FIND SPECIFICALLY AMERICAN IN HIS POEMS AND WHAT DO YOU FIND IS UNIVERSAL? Robert Frost wrote many poems about everyday rural life that are closely linked with human emotions. Most of his poems contain hidden meanings that are not clear at first sight. Firstly, I will talk of the specifically American aspects in Frost's poems. One thing sometimes found in Frosts poems that is American is the place in which the poem is set. The locations of Frosts poems often give a feeling of wide stretching forests and fields that go on for miles that don't exist in many other countries. "I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line" This phrase, from "Mending Wall", immediately suggests vast amounts of space as the speaker talks of, "beyond the hill", having a hill on ones land indicates...
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