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“What does it think it’s doing running west / When all the other country brooks flow east”: An analysis of liberation in “West-running Brook,” “After Apple-Picking,” “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” and “A Woman Waits for Me”
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"What does it think it's doing running west / When all the other country brooks flow east": An analysis of liberation in "West-running Brook," "After Apple-Picking," "A Noiseless Patient Spider," and "A Woman Waits for Me" In "West-running Brook," "After Apple-Picking," "A Noiseless Patient Spider," and "A Woman Waits for Me," emphasis on the structure serves to accentuate the fundamental theme of liberation as both Frost and Whitman diverge from conventional poetic norms even as they explore equally unconventional ideas. Poetry is organic. A quintessential principle proposed by Frost of which he endorsed both in his essays and in his finished verse. In asserting the freedom of poetry from former tradition, he reaffirmed Emerson's doctrine that it is not meter but a meter-making argument that produce poetry. "The freshness of a poem," Frost believed, "belongs absolutely to its not having been thought out and then set to verse" (Symbol 26)....
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