Post below on any aspect of Robert Frost's work, though you might want to think about the following questions:1) How do Frost's speakers view the American landscape? Furthermore, what makes his poems "American"?
2)What kind of relationships between humanity and nature are explored in Frost's poems?
3) What attitudes toward the passage of time are expressed?
4) How does Frost capture the rhythms of ordinary speech through traditional verse forms?
5) How does Frost marry form and content?
6) The theme of loss recurs in a number of Frost's poems. Compare the ways in which loss is portrayed in these poems.
You might also be interested in checking out some of these Frost resources on the web:
Poets.org page about Robert Frost
The Friends of Robert Frost House and Museum in Vermont
This video (link to YouTube) of Frost reading "After Apple-Picking." There are many, many videos of Frost up on YouTube, which--at least to me--are fascinating tributes to one of our most famous national poets.
Frost is a emblem, to me, of the modernist obsession with being depressed and negative.
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