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Robert Frost

(1874 - 1963)

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Frost- the farmer poetFrost- the farmer poetBorn in San Francisco, USAAttended Harvard, but left without a degree- jack of

all trades

B !"#$%s most celebrated American poetA farmer- poetAs he went about his farming tasks, his poetic

sensibilities would surface and he would &uestionthe cold detachment of man from nature'As a farmer, he stands with the world and his fellow

men to understand them and then as a poet hewithdraws into himself to attain higher forms ofunderstanding'

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His (haractersFrost writes of the farmers, neighbours, their life

and work, their loneliness and the manner in which

the deal with the situations of their life'

His characters live in secluded farms, the are

cautious and et the e)tend help and favour to

others*' The Fear, The Smile, The Star Splitter,

The House keeper.

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Hope- that he will have a ‘better life’

Jo- so!eti!es people "o!e to his shop

#isill$sio%!e%t- %othi%& favorable "o!es o$t of their visits

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'he!esSocial divide(lass +rich- poor the cit people are rich, the rural folk poor 

egion +rural- urban the cit is glamorous

.ifestle +simple - materialistic the cit values mone overhumanit

Hope for a /better% life want to see the life seen in movies

Self centeredness of man stop to reverse or ask the wa

0)ploitation relocate them and change their livesAbuse of hope and hospitalit no purchase, no appreciation

Assertion of the right to lead the better life rejects theother life

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StleStleSimple language- words from common core

1arrative stle adopted- a stor is being told

(onversational tone- 2he couldn%t +this crossl*'3ambic pentameter +rhthm of spoken 0nglish

epetitions for effect- sleep, another, countr

4ovement of a series of images*' Film strip like

Short, eas to understand sentences(ountrside imager contrasting with wil behaviour

of outsiders

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An AssessmentAn AssessmentA poem that

0)poses the show of empath that cit dwellers have for their rural

fellowmen

the selfish motives of businessmen

Shows  the refreshing innocence of the rural folk

faith he has in humanit

hope that he nurses

A telling comment on the /civili5ed behavior% of the

rich

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