Robert Frost's Poetry

Robert Frost's poetry brings the rhythms of conversation into carefully shaped verse. New England roads, farms, woods, and household encounters become settings for questions about choice, neighbourly obligation, work, and solitude. Poems such as Mending Wall and The Death of the Hired Man allow different voices to test what people owe one another. The Road Not Taken complicates the stories people tell about their own decisions, while Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening holds quiet attraction against remembered duties. His rural settings are places of argument and uncertainty as well as beauty.