Duality in Robert Frost’s Poetry: The Fusion of Tradition and Modernism

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10.2991/assehr.k.211025.065How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Robert Frost, Modernism, Poetry, Contradiction, Literature study

Abstract

Amid the American modern literary circle, Robert Frost is honored as “American Poet Laureate” and is one of the greatest and the most popular poets. Based on the settings of New England, his poems that are fraught with idyllic scenery and his laboring experience are expressed through a comparatively traditional prosody. His unique writing technique and characteristic enable him to win more diversified audience since whether they are literary experts or demotic readers, they are capable to interpret the poems from dual perspectives of opaque modernism as well as a relatively more intelligible Victorian writing style. Upon this foundation, this article aims to discuss how this great luminary manages to organically amalgamate traditional form with modern ethos. In order to reach this purpose, the author will analyze the rhetorical device and connotation of some masterpieces of Frost, e.g., “Birches”, “The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, etc. to investigate the duality of tradition and modernism.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - Duality in Robert Frost’s Poetry: The Fusion of Tradition and Modernism
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2021)
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