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| > | Frost, Robert
American poet who was much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, his command of American colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations. |
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a word used in two or more of its possible meanings, as in the final two lines of Robert Frost's “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”: |
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from the American literature article
The post-World War II years produced an abundance of strong poetry but no individual poet as dominant and accomplished as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, or William Carlos Williams, whose long careers were coming to an end. The major poetry from 1945 to 1960 was Modernist in its ironic texture yet formal in its insistence on regular rhyme and metre. ...
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in prosody, a line of verse having an unstressed and usually extrametrical syllable at its end. In the opening lines from Robert Frost's poem “Directive,” the fourth line has a feminine ending while the rest are masculine: |
| > | end rhyme
in poetry, a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses, as in stanza one of Robert Frost's “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”: |
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| Frost, Robert
(1874–1963). The works of U.S. poet Robert Frost tell of simple things—swinging on a birch tree, stopping by woods on a snowy evening, the death of a hired man. Behind them is a deep feeling for life's fundamentals—love, loyalty, awareness of nature and of God.
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| Hillyer, Robert Silliman
(1895–1961), U.S. poet, born in East Orange, N.J.; in English department at Harvard University 1919–26, 1928–45, at Trinity College 1926–28, and at University of Delaware 1952–60; Pulitzer prize (1934); author of symbolic novel ‘Riverhead'; verse in classic tradition, disciplined and thoughtful (‘Collected Verse'; ‘A Letter to Robert Frost and Others'); criticism, ‘In ...
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| Expository Versus Creative Writing
from the creative writing article
Unlike the expository writer, the creative writer uses language plastically, for its suggestiveness and power of sensuous evocation. The difference between the expository writer and the creative writer, however, goes deeper than the use of language.
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| Poets of Modern New England
from the American literature article
About the time that Poetry was first published in the Middle West, two Eastern poets attracted favorable attention. The first, Edwin Arlington Robinson, had for years been writing poems ignored by all but a few. After 1912, with the newly awakened interest in poetry, Americans began to read his verse. Today he is acknowledged to be one of the most important American poets ...
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| dramatic monologue
A poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character to an imaginary audience of one or more people is known as a dramatic monologue. Such a poem compresses into a single vivid scene a narrative sense of the speaker's history and psychological insight into his character. Although the form is chiefly associated with Robert Browning, who raised it to a highly ...
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